News

2008/10/23 — IDMIL technology has appeared in several live@CIRMMT concerts and events over the past week:

• A sensing system using piezo-electric contact microphones on a percussionist's fingertips was used in Steven Schick's performance of Chatter/Clatter, part of composer Roger Reynolds' Sanctuary Project.
• Custom control hardware built by Mark Marshall was used in an updated performance of Karlheinz Stockahausen's Mantra by Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer.
• An adapted version of the T-Stick digital musical instrument was used to control processing and spatialization of live sound in four performances of Duo pour un violoncelle et un danseur, a new collaborative work by Sean Ferguson and Isabelle Van Grimde/Corps Secrets

The online database for the Taxonomy of Realtime Interfaces for Electronic Music Performance project is now online. It currently includes information on 45 interfaces and instruments submitted to their online survey. From the website:

We are interested in exploring the practice and application of new interfaces for real-time electronic music performance. This research is part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project titled “Performance Practice in New Interfaces for Realtime Electronic Music Performance”.

This research is being carried out at VIPRE MARCS Auditory Laboratories, the University of Western Sydney in partnership with EMF, Infusion Systems and The Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) at McGill University.

D. Andrew Stewart recently performed his new composition for the soprano T-Stick during the recent launch of Montréal contemporary music organization Le Vivier. Stewart is part of the McGill Digital Orchestra project, and has been collaborating on the T-Stick project since it began.

We have uploaded more videos to the IDMIL YouTube account over the last few days. Here is the late Michel Waisvisz (of STEIM, NL) giving a keynote lecture at the 2003 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression here at McGill University - this is part 1 of 6; the other 5 parts can be viewed here.

A new IDMIL interface recently debuted at the Eureka! Science Fair in Montréal, along with other demonstrations of research associated with CIRMMT. Documentation for the “Interactive Table” has now been added to it's own project page.