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Preamble.
NIME 2006

1


Paper Session, Monday morning, June 5

Mobile and Public

Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community.
Lalya Gaye, Lars Erik Holmquist, Frauke Behrendt, Atau Tanaka

22

A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media.
Atau Tanaka, Petra Gemeinboeck

26

CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid Tracking.
Michael Rohs, Georg Essl, Martin Roth

31

Pocket Gamelan: tuneable trajectories for flying sources in Mandala 3 and Mandala 4.
Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv

37

Interactive Public Sound Art: a case study.
David Birchfield, Kelly Phillips, Assegid Kidané, David Lorig

43


Poster Session, Monday, June 5

Sensors, Interfaces, and Mapping

Building Collaborative Graphical interFaces in the Audicle.
Ge Wang, Ananya Misra, Perry Cook

49

The Frequencyliator - Distributing Structures for Networked Laptop Improvisation.
Pedro Rebelo, Alain Renaud

53

A VR Interface for Collaborative 3D Audio Performance.
Martin Naef, Daniel Collicott

57

Using the Touch Screen as a Controller for Portable Computer Music Instruments.
Günter Geiger

61

Using MIDI to Modify Video Game Content.
Jukka Holm, Juha Arrasvuori, Kai Havukainen

65

Turntable Music in the Digital Era: Designing Alternative Tools for New Turntable Expression.
Takuro Lippit

71

spinCycle: a Color-Tracking Turntable Sequencer.
Spencer Kiser

75

The Chopping Board: Real-time Sample Editor.
Jason Lee

77

A Tactile Closed-Loop Device for Musical Interaction.
Staas de Jong

79

PETECUBE: a Multimodal Feedback Interface.
Peter Bennett

81

The G-Spring Controller.
Denis Lebel, Joseph Malloch

85

Orbophone: a new interface for radiating sound and image.
Damien Lock, Greg Schiemer

89

the gluion, advantages of an FPGA-based sensor interface.
Sukandar Kartadinata

93

Beyond 0-5V: Expanding Sensor Integration Architectures.
Adrian Freed, Rimas Avizienis, Matt Wright

97

Timbre interfaces using adjectives and adverbs.
Colin Johnson, Alex Gounaropoulos

101

SonicJumper composer.
D. Andrew Stewart

103

Towards a catalog and software library of mapping methods.
Hans-Christoph Steiner

106

LINE: Interactive Sound and Light Installation.
Daisuke Kobori, Kojiro Kagawa, Makoto Iida, Chuichi Arakawa

110


Paper Session, Monday afternoon, June 5

Network and Collaborative

Decay in Collaborative Music Making.
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Patrick Healey

114

JamSpace: Designing A Collaborative Networked Music Space for Novices.
Michael Gurevich

118

Creating a Network of Integral Music Controllers.
Benjamin Knapp, Perry Cook

124

Perturbation Techniques for Multi-Performer or Multi-Agent Interactive Musical Interfaces.
Matthew Burtner

129

Sensemble: A Wireless, Compact, Multi-User Sensor System for Interactive Dance.
Ryan Aylward, Joseph Paradiso

134


Paper Session, Tuesday morning, June 6

Real and Virtual, Spatial and Graphical

The ZKM Klangdom.
Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Joachim Gossmann, Ludger Brümmer

140

A framework for immersive spatial audio performance.
Mike Wozniewski, Zack Settel, Jeremy Cooperstock

144

An Architectural Framework for Interactive Music Systems.
Alexandre Francois, Elaine Chew

150

Transmodal Feedback as a New Perspective for Audio-visual Effects.
Christian Jacquemin, Serge de Laubier

156

Screen-Based Musical Interfaces as Semiotic Machines.
Thor Magnusson

162

Different Strokes: a Prototype Software System for Laptop Performance and Improvisation.
Mark Zadel, Gary Scavone

168

TENORI-ON.
Yu Nishibori, Toshio Iwai

172


Poster Session, Tuesday, June 6

Gesture Controlled Audio Systems

Towards a Gesture Description Interchange Format.
Alexander Jensenius, Tellef Kvifte, Rolf Inge Godøy

176

SensorWiki.org: A Collaborative Resource for Researchers and Interface Designers.
Marcelo Wanderley, David Birnbaum, Joseph Malloch, Elliot Sinyor, Julien Boissinot

180

A simple practical approach to a wireless data acquisition board.
Smilen Dimitrov, Stefania Serafin

184

Mapping strategies in DJ scratching.
Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen, Roberto Bresin

188

'GXtar', an interface using guitar techniques.
Loic Kessous, Julien Castet, Daniel Arfib

192

Visual Methods for the Retrieval of Guitarist Fingering.
Anne-Marie Burns, Marcelo Wanderley

196

Combining accelerometer and video camera: Reconstruction of bow velocity profiles.
Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Nicolas Rasamimanana, Frédéric Bevilacqua

200

Reflective Optical Pickup For Violin.
Nicolas Leroy, Emmanuel Flety, Frederic Bevilacqua

204


Poster Session, Tuesday, June 6

Tables and Screens

Mary had a little scoreTable* or the reacTable* goes melodic.
Sergi Jorda, Marcos Alonso

208

Sound Rose: Creating Music and Images with a Touch Table.
Alain Crevoisier, Cédric Bornand, Arnaud Guichard, Seiichiro Matsumura, Chuichi Arakawa

212

Synthesis and Control on Large Scale Multi-Touch Sensing Displays.
Philip Davidson, Jefferson Han

216


Paper Session, Tuesday afternoon, June 6

Instrument Design

Towards a Coherent Terminology and Model of Instrument Description and Design.
Tellef Kvifte, Alexander R. Jensenius

220

Vibrotactile Feedback in Digital Musical Instruments.
Mark Marshall, Marcelo Wanderley

226

Paper FSRs and Latex/Fabric Traction Sensors: Methods for the Development of Home-Made Touch Sensors.
Rodolphe Koehly, Marcelo Wanderley, Denis Curtil

230

Creating Ad Hoc Instruments with Pin&Play&Perform.
John Bowers, Nicolas Villar

234

Synthesis and control of everyday sound reconstructing Russolo's Intonarumori.
Stefania Serafin, Amalia De Goetzen, Niels Böttcher, Steven Gelineck

240


Paper Session, Wednesday Morning, June 7

Brain, Hands, and Expression

Interactive Sonification of Neural Activity.
Gil Weinberg, Travis Thatcher

246

Non haptic control of music by video analysis of hand movements: 14 years of experience with the «Caméra Musicale».
Jacques Rémus

250

MICON: A Music Stand for Interactive Conducting.
Jan Borchers, Aristotelis Hadjakos, Max Mühlhäuser

254

conga: A Framework for Adaptive Conducting Gesture Analysis.
Eric Lee, Ingo Grüll, Henning Kiel, Jan Borchers

260

Real-time CALM Synthesizer: New Approaches in Hands-Controlled Voice Synthesis.
Nicolas D'Alessandro, Christophe d'Alessandro, Sylvain Le Beux, Boris Doval

266

GRASSP: Gesturally-Realized Audio, Speech and Song Performance.
Bob Pritchard, Sidney Fels

272

The 'E' in NIME: Musical Expression with New Computer Interfaces.
Christopher Dobrian, Daniel Koppelman

277


Poster Session, Wednesday, June 7

Instruments, Performances, and Installations

32kg: Performance Systems for a Post-Digital Age.
John Richards

283

Meta-Instrument 3: a look over 17 years of practice.
Serge De Laubier, Vincent Goudard

288

The Case Study of An Application of The System, "BodySuit" and "RoboticMusic" - Its Introduction and Aesthetics.
Suguru Goto

292

Modal Kombat: Competition and Choreography in Synesthetic Musical Performance.
David Hindman

296

A "Ballet mécanique" for the 21st Century: Performing George Antheil's Dadaist Masterpiece with Robots.
Paul Lehrman, Eric Singer

300

Using the augmented trombone in "I will not kiss your f.ing flag".
Serge Lemouton, Marco Stroppa, Benny Sluchin

304

On making and playing an electronically-augmented saxophone.
Sébastien Schiesser, Caroline Traube

308

Handheld Acoustic Filter Bank for Musical Control.
Tamara Smyth

314

Real-Time Sound Source Spatialization as used in Challenging Bodies: Implementation and Performance.
JJ Nixdorf, David Gerhard

318

Mapping with planning agents in the Max/MSP environment: the GO/Max language.
Paolo Bottoni, Stefano Faralli, Anna Labella, Mario Pierro

322

Towards a Virtual Assistant for Performers and Stage Directors.
Alain Bonardi, Isis Truck, Herman Akdag

326

Students' projects of interactive media-installations in SUAC.
Yoichi Nagashima

330

An Acousmatic Composition Environment.
Morten Breinbjerg, Ole Caprani, Rasmus Lunding, Line Kramhoeft

334

Bioinformatic Feedback: performer bio-data as a driver for real-time composition.
Robert Hamilton

338

The Light Matrix: An Interface for musical expression and performance.
Jonathan Pak

342

GAINER: A reconfigurable I/O module and software libraries for education.
Shigeru Kobayashi, Takanori Endo, Katsuhiko Harada, Shosei Oishi

346


Paper Session, Wednesday Afternoon, June 7

Augmented Instruments and Accompaniment

Hyper-shaku (Border-crossing): Towards the Multi-modal Gesture-controlled Hyper-Instrument.
Kirsty Beilharz, Joanne Jakovich, Sam Ferguson

352

Adapting the trombone: A suite of electro-acoustic interventions for the piece Rouse.
Neal Farwell

358

The Augmented Djembe Drum - Sculpting Rhythms.
Teemu Mäki-Patola, Perttu Hämäläinen, Aki Kanerva

364

Children of Grainger: Leather Instruments for Free Music.
Stuart Favilla, Joanne Cannon

370

Managing Gesture and Timbre for Analysis and Instrument Control in an Interactive Environment.
William Hsu

376

Integrated Interactive Music Performance Environment.
Keith Hamel

380

Learning Musical Instrument Skills Through Interactive Sonification.
Sam Ferguson

384


Special Session, Thursday morning, June 8

Digital Interfaces for the Violin Family

Recent Developments in Violin-related Digital Musical Instruments: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?.
Cornelius Poepel, Dan Overholt

390

Composing for Hyperbow: A Collaboration Between MIT and the Royal Academy of Music.
Diana Young, Patrick Nunn, Artem Vassiliev

396

The augmented violin project: research, composition and performance report.
Frédéric Bevilacqua, Nicolas Rasamimanana, Emmanuel Fléty, Serge Lemouton, Florence Baschet

402

Auditory Illusion and Violin: Demonstration of a Work by Jean-Claude Risset written for Mari Kimura.
Mari Kimura, Jean-Claude Risset

407

Augmenting the Cello.
Adrian Freed, Frances Marie Uitti, Michael Zbyszynski, David Wessel

409


Keynotes and Panel Discussion

Living with Creative Machines: A Composer Reflects.
Keynote George Lewis

414

Listening to the World: Information and Aesthetics.
Keynote William Gaver

414

Manager or Musician? - About virtuosity in live electronic music.
Panel Discussion moderated by Michel Waisvisz

415


Workshops

Improvisation and Computers.
Workshop

416

Choreographic Computations: Motion Capture and Analysis for Dance.
Workshop

416

Network Performance.
Workshop

416


Concert at IRCAM (Espace de Projection), Monday evening, June 5

NIME Performances

Voice and Infrared Sensor Shirt.
Tomomi Adachi

418

Solo Performance for Indeterminate 'Dirty Electronics', 'Flickertron' and 'Pseudophone+'.
John Richards (aka kREEPA)

418

Pieces for Plants #7.
Miya Masaoka

418

Sight Sound -Phenakistoscope-.
Saburo Hirano

419

Mouseketier Praxis.
Mark Applebaum

419

Children of Grainger.
Bent Leather Band

419


Concert at the Triptyque, Monday night, June 5

Club NIME I

Revelations.
Juraj Kojs

420

Hymn to Ampere.
The Breadboard Band

420

Modal Kombat.
David Hindman and Evan Drummond

420

scrambled?HaCkZ!.
Sven König

421

Audile.
Yutaka Makino and dj sniff

421

Invited Headline Club Performance.
eRikm

421


Concert at IRCAM (Espace de Projection), Tuesday night, June 6

NIME 06 Special Guests

Vista, Tricot.
Mari Kimura

422

Trio Improvisation.
George Lewis and Alexander von Schlippenbach

422

Le Loup, Lifting, Crackle, Noise, Nevrose.
Sensors_Sonics_Sights

423

On composing the now.
Michel Waisvisz

423


Concert at the Point Éphémère, Wednesday night, June 7

Club NIME II

Dual Airbags.
Ben Neill and Nicolas Collins

424

Circumference Cycles.
Chris Strollo, Tina Blaine, Robin Stanaway

424

reacTable*.
Sergi Jordà and Chris Brown

424

Connected Spaces.
Satoru Higa and Akihiro Kubota

425

backscatter.
Robin Fox

425


Performances at ArsLonga, Thursday evening, June 8

NIME Gallery

Mandala 3 and Mandala 4.
Greg Schiemer

426

Bowl Chant.
Garth Paine and Michael Atherton

426

Live Fire.
Ximena Franco and Enrique Franco

426

Jam'aa.
Gil Weinberg

427

ATT.
Georg Holzmann

427


Concert at the Point Éphémère, Thursday night, June 8

Club NIME III

piano works.
Antoine Schmitt

428

chdh.
Cyrille Henry and Nicolas Montgermont

428

I.D.L. (Icon of Desire Lost).
Alice Daquet

429

1ProVisTruments.
Cyrille Brissot, Emilie Simon, Olivier Pasquet, Cyril Hernandez

429


Installations

Acousmeaucorps.
Tom Mays

430

anemo.
Ryoho Kobayashi

430

Métier à Tisser Musical - The Musical Loom.
Kingsley Ng

430

16:9 intercreative sound installation.
Daniel Teige, Martin Rumori

431

codespace_<tag>.
jasch

431

LINE.
Daisuke Kobori, Kojiro Kagawa, Makoto Iida, Chuichi Arakawa

432

Audio Shaker.
Mark Hauenstein and Tom Jenkins

432

Sonobotanic plants.
Marije Baalman and Alberto de Campo

432

Transduction.2.
Marc Fournel

433