Dr. Norbert Schnell is a researcher and developer focusing on real-time interactive digital audio processing and interaction design. Together with his colleagues of the Sound Music Movement Interaction Team at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris he develops technologies and interaction scenarios on the frontiers between music listening and music performance. He was involved in numerous international research and development projects as well as artistic works in the field of music, interactive audiovisual installations, music pedagogy, and industrial design. In 2007 he held the DAAD Edgard Varèse Guest Professorship for Electronic Music at the Technische Universität Berlin. Having created musical interactions that – apart from digital technologies – involve traditional musical instruments, chessboards, gambling machines, balls, and kitchen utilities he currently explores collective interaction scenarios based on web-based mobile technologies that involve many people engaging in making music together.

»The recent availability of both affordable motion capture technology and mobile platforms allows for creating a new generation of musical instruments and interactive audio applications. These systems currently redefine the boundaries between music listening and music performance. New devices and applications enable music listening as an active participation in musical interpretation and composition. At the same time, new digital musical instruments integrate notions of perception, generativity, and collaboration, questioning the performance practices and functions of traditional instruments. In this context, the design of novel instruments and interactive audio applications explores the infinite possibilities to create relationships between bodily action, physical objects, sound, and musical structures. Design here may rely on existing – musical and extra-musical – metaphors and bodily knowledge as well as on abstract concepts and topologies. In this talk, I will present various projects that we realised over the past years in different collaborations, focusing on underlying concepts and inspirations.«

Über das »bauhausinteraction.colloquium«:
Interactiondesign spielt in verschiedensten Disziplinen, wie im Design, der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und der Software-Entwicklung eine wichtige Rolle. Dort geht es vor allem darum, digitale Produkte und Anwendungen für Menschen optimal nutzbar zu machen. Einerseits müssen ästhetische Aspekte, andererseits aber auch menschliche Verhaltensweisen und Gewohnheiten berücksichtigt werden.

Alle Vorträge finden in englischer Sprache statt und richten sich an ein internationales Publikum. Der Eintritt ist frei. »bauhausinteraction colloquium« ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Fakultäten Gestaltung und Medien an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und wird von Lehrenden der Studiengänge Produkt-Design, Lehramt an Gymnasien: Kunsterziehung, Medieninformatik und Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung organisiert. 

Gespräch:

Zeit:
Montag, 2. Juni 2014 
19 Uhr 

Ort:
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Oberlichtsaal im Hauptgebäude
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
99423 Weimar

weitere Termine:
tba
Marc Hassenzahl (Folkwang University of Arts Essen): User Experience and Interaction

Weiterführende Informationen finden Sie im Internet unter http://bauhausinteraction.org/colloquium/