Department of Geography " Turkey is a concrete link between two continents. The country is also at the centre of the intersection between the East-West and the North-South arteries of the Middle East and Persian Gulf areas. Finally, Turkey serves as a barrier which hinders Soviet access to the Mediterranean and the Middle East " CREMASCO, M. (1984) " In political, economic and strategic terms, ...

When learning a classical instrument, people often either take lessons in which an existing body of “technique” is delivered, evolved over generations of performers, or in some cases people will “teach themselves” by watching people play and listening to existing recordings. What does one do with a complex new digital instrument? In this paper I address this question drawing on my experience in...

This position paper likes to stress the role and importance of performance based education in NIME like subjects. It describes the ‘klankontwerp’ learning line at the ‘school of the arts Utrecht’ in its department Music Technology. Our educational system also reflects the way that we could treat performance in the NIME community as a whole. The importance of performing with our instruments othe...

This paper addresses the problem that most electrophones and computer-based musical instruments are ephemera lasting long enough to signal academic and technical prowess. They rarely are used more than in a few musical performances. We offer a case study that suggests that longevity of use depends on stabilizing the interface and innovating the implementation to maintain the required stability ...

This paper presents the approaches and expectations of a recently launched course at New York University (NYU) in the design and development of musical controllers. The framework for the course, which is also entitled “New Interfaces for Musical Expression,” is largely based on the proceedings of the first NIME workshop held in Seattle, WA in April 2001.