Hello all,
We are holding a hands-on workshop in which you get to hack together
accessible interactive music gadgets using technologies such as Arduino
<http://www.arduino.cc> and Raspberry Pi <http://www.raspberrypi.org/>.
There will be two international experts on-hand to give assistance with
building the gadgets, and there will be plenty of fun tech to try out.
We will be emphasising non-visual interaction with sound.
Important Dates:
* Submission of expression of interest: 13/06/2014
* Workshop: 30/06/2014
Details
The workshop is part of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
<http://www.nime2014.org/> conference, which will take place on Monday
the 30th of June at Goldsmiths University in London, from 9.00am to
5.00pm. The workshop will explore how to design and build accessible
music technology. Our aim as researchers will be to address the
fundamental question of how other senses, in addition to vision, can be
exploited to improve interaction with music technology as well as create
new forms of interaction that break away from traditional forms of music
making.
The one-day event will have two parts, a tutorial session and an
exchange session. In the tutorial session, participants will have
hands-on experience with building interactive prototype technologies
using an accessible platforms such as Arduino <http://www.arduino.cc>
and Raspberry Pi <http://www.raspberrypi.org/>. In the second part,
participants will exchange ideas for accessible music interfaces in the
form of short presentation, technology demonstrations and round table
discussions
The workshop will be a great opportunity to discover new technologies,
learn practical skills and engage with the community of NIME, and with
users and practitioners. Researchers will bring their work to discuss
and demonstrate on the day, and users and practitioners will benefit
from a special hands-on tutorial session.
Please send a short description of your interest and (if appropriate) a
one page summary of your research by the 13th of June 2014 to
de...@eecs.qmul.ac.uk <mailto:de...@eecs.qmul.ac.uk>. There is no
attendance fee except for a "parts cost" for the tutorial session, but
participants will keep the equipment they use.
Accommodation
If you need accommodation on either Sunday or Monday nights, we
recommend the London Greenwich Hotel
<http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/539/London-Greenwich-hotel>, which
is within walking distance of Deptford Bridge DLR station and about one
mile away from the workshop venue.
* The hotel's address is:
* Blackheath Road
* Greenwich
* London
* SE10 8DA
* United Kingdom
Organizers
* Sile O'Modhrain
* Conor Barry
* Tony Stockman
* Nick Bryan-kinns
* Fiore Martin
* Oussama Metatla
* Atau Tanaka
* Adam Parkinson
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Dr. Oussama Metatla
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Room: CS321 - Tel: +44 (0) 207 882 7249
Web: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~oussama/
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