NIME Music Track Concert 5 Transcript of captions and on screen text: Introduction Welcome to the last of this year’s concerts featuring submissions to the NIME music track. This lunchtime we have music on the theme of experimental interactions and systems, featuring: a modular suite of inter-communicating embedded instruments; new and accessible developments in live code; distributed performance between bowed cardboard and machine listening algorithms; improvisation embracing chaotic and ambiguous interaction design; and a system based on intra-action, inspired by philosopher Karen Barad. Modular Process Music Krzysztof Cybulski Hi, this is Krzysztof Cybulski, and i will be presenting my project called Modular Process Music, and this is actually a short excerpt from a longer performance I did of the project, so please enjoy. Feedforward Alex McLean Hello I'm Alex, and i'm going to give a quick demo performance thing about feed forward which is a little experimental text editor i've been working on for my live coding environment called Tidal Cycles. So this is it. It's implemented in text mode using the curses library so you can run it in a terminal um and the main thing is that you can see which events within the title mini notation are contributing to the events that are being fired, um you can also see when it's unmuted, um a little VU meter, and you can switch different parts on and off. Right, I better get going uh here we go okay sometimes it crashes, um there's no save function, so i'm just gonna have to start again. Sorry about that. i've got like... two and a half minutes left. keep live coding live all right that's my 10 minutes thanks for listening see you Hopefully [fades out] Race to the Bottom Owen Green Hi, I'm Owen Green, thanks for watching, uh this piece Race to the Bottom is an improvising machine for bowed cardboard and machine listening electronics. If you want to find out more about the gory details that go into this piece you can watch a much longer video at https://www.flucoma.org/plenaries Thanks! Video: Angie Guyton Performance at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2019 Touch, Strike, Slide, Twist, Shudder The Bowers-Hagan Duo The Bowers-Hagan Duo work in the zone between non-linear dynamics, sound synthesis, and improvisation, creating performances where gestures, both musically familiar and unfamiliar, steer rather than control chaotic noise. Touch, Strike, Slide, Twist, Shudder was made under conditions of Covid-19 lockdown. With Wagon (on the left) Responding to an improvisation Bowers (on the right) had sent her. Schmitt Mári Mákó Hi everyone, my name is Mári Mákó, and i'm a sound artist and composer based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. For the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, I present a piece called Schmitt. The piece is focused on a self-designed instrument called Schmitt Oscillator, which sound transformation is the sonic journey of the piece. As a performance practice, the piece meant to challenge and explore the relationships between motion, gesture, and sound. For that, i'm using two kinds of sensors: one is a light sensor which is controlling the trigger and the frequency range of the oscillator, and the other is an accelerometer sensor which is interpolating between presets, meaning how I am moving my hand it's changing the timbre of the sound. Along with that i'm also singing to create a drawn texture to contrast the glitchy and noisy sound of the oscillator. I hope you enjoy the piece Mári Mákó Schmitt Flora Reznik Videography Intra-Action Erik Nyström City, University of London NIME2020 at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire This is a piece called Intra-action, it's a computer music system for improvisation, where all sounds are listening to one another and responding to one another and also capturing my performance and building behaviors on the basis of that. Eriknystrom.com Closing Message Thanks to everyone who contributed to this lunchtime concert, and to the NIME music track as a whole. We do have more music this evening from our remaining keynote artists; first from electronic folk duo Crewdson & Cevanne, and then from Dunning & Underwood with the Mammoth Beat Organ. If that’s not enough, we then have a series of late livestreams which go through to midnight UK time. See you then!