Guggenheim award-winning composer/violinist, educator/entrepreneur Mari Kimura will give a thrilling demonstration of MUGIC®, a WIFI motion sensor designed for musicians, performers, dancers and beyond. Mari will demonstrate how MUGIC® works in many situations, as well as perform works she wrote using MUGIC®. The commercial version of MUGIC® was released last September and is now available for purchase at https://mugicmotion.com/
• DATES: July 3 2021 – WE ARE RESCHEDULING FOR THE RAIN DATE: July 4, 2021
• PERFORMANCE: Various times throughout July 3 2021 – RAIN DATE: JULY 4, 2021. LIVE Performance of “Rossby Waving” will be at 3:30 pm on the RAIN DATE of July 4, 2021
• LOCATION: The Workings of Media [art and artists] at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House. Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
Guggenheim award-winning composer/violinist, educator/entrepreneur Mari Kimura will give a demo/performance of MUGIC®, a WIFI motion sensor designed for musicians, performers, dancers and beyond. Mari will demonstrate how MUGIC® works, she will perform her composition “Rossby Waving”, inspired by the climate change crises, for violin, MUGIC®, accompanied by the video created by media artist Liubo Borissov. The first prototype of MUGIC® was designed by Mari and Liubo, with the grant provided by Harvestworks. Mari designed MUGIC® at UC Irvine, and released commercially last September.
MUGIC® has been used by independent musicians, dancers, actors and classrooms. With MUGIC®, you can translate expressive gestures to meaningful data, and control sound, graphics, movies, just about anything. MUGIC® is a small, lightweight device that can fit inside a glove, wristband, hairband, shoes, or attach to any object. For more info and purchase, please visit https://mugicmotion.com/
• BIOS
MARI KIMURA is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. As a performer, composer, researcher, and entrepreneur, she has opened up new sonic worlds and new musical possibilities for the violin. Notably, she has mastered the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string without retuning. This technique, which she calls Subharmonics, has earned Mari considerable renown in the concert music world and beyond. She is also a pioneer in the field of interactive computer music. At the same time, she has earned international acclaim as a soloist and recitalist in both standard and contemporary repertoire. Her most recent efforts involves entrepreneurship, bringing her prototype motion sensor “MUGIC™”, pronounced “mu”(as in music) +”gic”(as in magic), to the market.
As a composer, Mari is a recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fromm Award from Harvard, residencies at the Rockefeller Brother’s Fund and IRCAM in Paris. Mari’s commissions include the International Computer Music Association, Harvestworks, Music from Japan and others, supported by grants including New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, New Music USA/Meet The Composer, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. She was named one of 45 “Great Immigrants” by the Carnegie Corporation, and has been featured in major publications including the New York Times written by Matthew Gurewitsch, and in Scientific American written by Larry Greenemeier.
As a violinist, Mari has premiered many notable works, including John Adams’s Violin Concerto (Japanese premiere), Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII (US premiere), Tania Léon’s Axon for violin and computer (world premiere), and Salvatore Sciarrino’s 6 Capricci (US premiere), among others. In 2007, Mari introduced Jean-Claude Risset’s violin concerto, Schemes, at Suntory Hall with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. The cadenza she wrote for the concerto, incorporating advanced Subharmonics, was subsequently published in STRINGS magazine. In 2019, she gave the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s “Motion Notions” for violin and a motion sensor at her solo recital at the International Chigiana Festival in Siena, Italy.
Since 2013, Mari is the Founding Chair of the Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival in collaboration with IRCAM. The program focuses on high-level instrumental performers, who explore composition, improvisation and performance using the latest technology.
As an entrepreneur, Mari is the President of Kimari, LLC creating MUGIC™. In September 2020, after developing a new MUGIC™ prototype at Calit2 at UCI for two years, she released MUGIC™ commercially. MUGIC™ is now available at https://mugicmotion.com/
For more info about Mari, please visit http://www.marikimura.com
• PRESS QUOTES
“A virtuoso playing at the edge”
–New York Times
“Creative Vibration; my free violin”
-feature article in La Rebubblica, Italy
• WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
https://mugicmotion.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mugicmotion/
https://www.facebook.com/mugicmotion