Beacon by Anna Weisling & Anna Xambó @ NIME 2017

Beacon. NIME 2017. Stengade. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 16, 2017.

Program notes

Beacon is a call to immersion. The listener is prompted to sit in the moments of tension created by droning ambiences and rhythmic motions, feeling the physical pull of these dichotomies. The viewer is presented with live imagery which illustrates these sonic spaces, reinforcing both the calm and the distress that comes with sensory immersion.

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Audio / Video

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Publications

• Xambó, A., Lerch, A. and Freeman, J. “Music Information Retrieval in Live Coding: A Theoretical Framework”. Computer Music Journal, 42(4), Winter 2018, pp. 9-25.
• Weisling, A., Xambó, A. (2018). “Beacon: Exploring Physicality in Digital Performance”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’18). Stockholm, Sweden. pp. 586–591.

Albums

• Anna Weisling and Anna Xambó: Beacon [FLAC/MP3 files], Carpal Tunnel, 2019.

Press

• DEMO HOUR: Beacon - ACM Interactions XXV.5 September-October 2018, pp. 10.