Webinar on interactive and generative technologies for sound and music

Ek and Nordin will show and discuss technologies they have developed such as Music inMotion, Gestrument, and Reactional Music. These technologies have been used to extend the possibilities of conventional musical instruments in concert settings, and enable new ways ofwriting and performing music.

Music in Motion consists in a custom sensor board accompanied by dedicated software that allows musicians to interact with live electronics while performing with acoustic instruments. Robert Ek will show his clarinet augmented with the sensor, and how he used it in several solo and ensemble performances since 2016.

Gestrument and Reactional Music are platforms for generative and interactive music creation. The technologies have been used internationally in orchestral concerts, and made available to the public via mobile apps and software libraries. Jesper Nordin will explain how he developed the technologies and how they became important parts of his practice as a composer and his work as a researcher and entrepreneur.

This webinar is targeted at media companies, professionals, and artists working with music technology for the stage and audiovisual media as well as students and researchers interested in artistic research in the performing arts.

This event is organized by NorrlandsNavet.

Jesper Nordin
Jesper Nordin is a leading Swedish composer and researcher. His orchestral pieces have been played and/or commissioned by orchestras such as the San Fransisco Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish and Finnish radio orchestras. His iOS apps Gestrument and ScaleGen are used by musicians and amateurs in many different genres and are the foundation Reactional Music, a procedural music engine designed for the gaming industry.
https://jespernordin.com

Robert Ek playing clarinet

Robert Ek
Robert Ek has is a clarinettist and researcher specialised in contemporary music as a
chamber musician and soloist. He has recorded around 20 records and premiered a large number of works as a soloist and chamber musician. In recent years, his work on developing the repertoire has focused on live electronics and developing the clarinet as an augmented instrument. Robert is also a PhD candidate at Luleå University of Technology since 2019. At the core of this doctoral project lies the iterative process where new electro-acoustic instrumental systems are designed and then used and tested in collaborative processes and in artistic practice.
https://www.remusik.se

Federico Visi
Federico Visi is a researcher in music at Luleå University of Technology. His work explores the interplay between human and non-human agencies in music, embodiment in networked music performance, and interactive machine learning. He has recently designed a networkable feedback string instrument with embedded machine learning called the Sophtar. He is a member of the TCP/Indeterminate Place networked hyperorgan quartet and collaborates with research labs at several international institutions including University of Iceland, Goldsmiths University of London, and Universität der Künste Berlin.
www.federicovisi.com

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