This article chronicles the research of the Nordic Network of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA), and shows how the milieux bridge the gap between the disciplines involved. As examples, three projects within NNIMIPA involving performance interaction examine the role of audio and gestures in emotional musical expression using motion capture, the visual and auditive cues musi...

Musicians are exposed to high-risk musculoskeletal activities such as repetition, hours of exposure, and awkward postures when playing instruments. These activities may result in playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. Musicians often work part-time or seasonally or are self-employed. Thus, they may be uninsured or underinsured and may delay seeking care for these painful and potentially dis...

While representing musical processes or musical scores through Markup Languages is now well established, the authors assume that there is still the need for a format to encode musical material with which a musician can interact. The lack of such a format is especially crucial for contemporary music that involves computing processes. They propose such a formal representation for composing musica...

In the context of music composition and production using MIDI sequencers, wind instrument tracks are built on the synthesis of music scores that have been written using whether MIDI keyboards or mouse clicks. Such modus operandi clearly handicaps the musician when it comes to shape the resulting audio with the desired expression. This paper presents a straightforward method to create convincing...

In this interview, Steven Feld, an anthropologist, filmmaker, musician, and sound artist, discusses his multimedia project on “Jazz Cosmopolitanism” in Ghana. From 2004, Feld started to study acoustemology—one’s sonic way of knowing being the world—from standpoint avant-garde jazz musicians visual artists Accra. He worked as a producer engineer, before performing musician with Accra Trane Stati...

Dr. Berardino De Bari is an Italian Radiation On-cologist based in Switzerland, recognized as one of the European experts on prostate cancer. Apart from his clinical activity, he also involved edu-cational activities ESTRO, IAEA and ESO. He a musician - composer singer.