Digital Media student wins a MusicBricks Incubation Award at Music Tech Fest, Sweden


Interdisciplinary research,
education and capacity building


14 Jul 2015

Horácio Tomé Marques, a FEUP student and fellow FCT | UT Austin Portugal finishing his PhD on Digital Media (PDMD – Doctoral Program on Digital Media) won a Blue Vinyl Award — MusicBricks Incubation Award* category — at MTF - Music Tech Fest Scandinavia 2015, 29 - 30 May, Umeå, Sweden.

Music Tech FestHorácio Tomé Marques won the Award with the project FindingSomething SoundingBonding, created and produced together with Francisco Marques Teixeira and Fanny Fazakas (Hungary) in the Hackathon - a MTF program where participants had to create and develop a project in 24 hours, according to some themes and guidelines released by MusicBricks program.

 The FindingSomething SoundingBonding project is an audio-visual performative piece for two actors, who expose a narrative conceptually anchored in a inter-relational event between two human beings (a kind of game, based on provocation/perception, using ingredients such as body gestures, body language, reception/perception/cerebral-reaction, iteration). In terms of processes and technologies it is based on gestures/movements and brain electric potentials, where one of the participants uses various gesture/movements R-IoT sensors (IRCAM) and the other uses a brain-computer interface (Emotiv).

The MusicBricks incubation awards are incentives to research and development, configured by grants of € 3,000 rewarding innovative and well-founded projects, denoting previous field research, and that have a clear potential for further development and future real impact in fields of arts, science and technology.

The author was invited to participate and present (with his project colleagues) the next-step of the project development at the next MTF - Music Tech Fest in Ljubljana, Slovenia next September.

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Links:
www.musictechfest.org
www.musictechfest.org/musicbricks
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Award Photos: Here and here

 

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* MusicBricks: Musical Building Blocks for Digital Makers and Content Creators, is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission coordinated by Sigma Oriniosis SA (France) involving Fraunhofer (Germany) the IRCAM (France), Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria), The Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) and Stromatolite Ltd (UK).
http://sigma-orionis.com/musicbricks-innovating-music-technology-value-chain/
http://www.ircam.fr/58.html?L=%5C&tx_ircam_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=92&ext=1&L=1
http://mtg.upf.edu/projects/musicbricks