IMWI students at the Intercollege Sonic Arts Festival in Tokyo
At the end of February, Negin Mozafari and Till Bechtloff, students at the IMWI | Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology, took part in the Intercollege Sonic Arts Festival alongside Prof. Dr Christoph Seibert, at the invitation of Kunitachi College of Music, our partner institution in Tokyo. As part of this festival and the accompanying symposium, students from universities across Japan presented compositions, performances, installations and research papers. Alongside Negin Mozafari’s Goli’s Song and Till Bechtloff’s Etudes for Cellular Automata, Adrian Reichardt’s audiovisual composition Eine Verbindung was also successfully performed. During the symposium, Christoph Seibert provided an insight into the work of the IMWI.
Participating in the Intercollege Sonic Arts Festival offered a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas with students and lecturers from the fields of computer music and sonic arts within the Japanese higher education landscape. During the festival and on our trip, we were able to gather many inspiring impressions.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Prof. Umemoto, President of the Kunitachi College of Music, as well as Prof. Shintaro Imai, Head of the Sonology Department, and his students for the invitation, the warm welcome and the professional support during the festival.
A recording of the concert, featuring performances by Negin Mozafari, Till Bechtloff and Adrian Reichardt, is available via the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGtdXQF0V4
The setup used by Negin Mozafari in *Goli’s Song* was developed by her as part of the Hans Hachmann Scholarship awarded by the Friends of the Karlsruhe University of Music.