MUGIC Family User meeting

October 23, 2026

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Harvestworks

596 Broadway, #602
New York, NY 10012

Mari Kimura will unveil MUGIC Plugin, a new interface for MUGIC, available free to all MUGIC users. She will also present Strings to Strings, a work in progress created with media artist and researcher Toru Urakawa. The piece combines IRCAM’s SOMAX, Urakawa’s AI-generated text, and the MUGIC sensor in a live interactive performance.

MUGIC sensors are small, wireless motion sensors that translate physical gestures into digital controls. They can be worn on the hand or attached to an instrument or object to measure movement, acceleration, and orientation. Artists can use this data to control sound, audio effects, visuals, and lighting in real time through software such as Max and Ableton Live, making movement an expressive part of a performance or interactive installation.

This event is free, but RSVP is required. Please email studio@harvestworks.org to confirm your attendance.

Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura is a violinist, composer, technologist, and entrepreneur known for inventing the subharmonics technique, which lets violinists play an octave below the instrument’s range. The New York Times called her a “virtuoso playing at the edge.” A Guggenheim Fellow and 2025 SEAMUS lifetime achievement honoree, she has premiered works by Adams, Sciarrino, Berio, and Tania León, and collaborates with IRCAM on SOMAX – AI improvisation. A Juilliard faculty member since 1998 and UC Irvine Professor Emeritus, she created MUGIC®, a motion sensor used at Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale, and Osaka Expo 2025.

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Toru Urakawa

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is a media artist and researcher working across computation, language, and physical media, with an interest in how things take shape in everyday life. He studied applied mathematics in Tokyo and attended the School for Poetic Computation in New York. He is the author of “How Does AI Write Tanka Poetry?” (Kodansha, 2024).