Introduction to the IMP-NESTAR project

An introduction to the Interactive Multimedia Playroom. This workshop is open to all with registration.

Registration

Seating is limited (12 seats). Please confirm you attendance here: Introduction to the IMP-NESTAR project - registration form

Speaker

  • Rosemary Mountain, Concordia University

Description

The IMP-NESTAR project is Phase III of a research project which evolved from a simple installation (the Multimedia Thesaurus) to a larger environment (the Interactive Multimedia Playroom [IMP]) and now being developed by a small but growing international team as NESTAR - a Network of Exploratory Spaces for Temporal Arts Research. Dr. Mountain, the project inventor, will present a brief overview of the project, its various potential applications for research in music perception, analysis, information retrieval, and collaboration, and then demonstrate how the central installation works, with a visit to the mini demo version now installed inside CIRMMT on the 8th floor of the New Music Building. This will allow participants to understand the requirements for further development and to reflect on possible solutions and integration with their own research projects.

About Rosemary Mountain

Dr. Rosemary Mountain is a composer and musicologist in her final year of teaching at Concordia University, where she has been full-time faculty since 1999 in the Music Department, and a key figure in the early development of the inter-university research institute Hexagram. Her research integrates elements from perception & cognition as well as electroacoustics, rhythmic theory, and systematic musicology; it is expressed through her compositions for acoustic and electroacoustic media and multimedia works as well as frequent presentations in international conferences and publications in a variety of academic journals.  She is currently completing two books (Conversational Musicology and A Musician's Guide to Time) and preparing two more (The Playroom Phenomenon and Sorting out the Strata) which will contextualize and summarize her extensive research to date.