{"id":7425,"date":"2013-09-26T01:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerokidz.com\/ideas\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2014-06-24T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:17:00","slug":"mike-lyons-nime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reactivemusic.net\/?p=7425","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lyons NIME"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sam Tarakajian at The Cycling 74 Blog<\/span><\/cite><\/p>\n

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Michael Lyons, a NIME veteran and researcher in musical interaction, leads the first workshop. His presentation does a great job of filling in the gaps in my knowledge on NIME related topics, subjects like primary versus secondary feedback (secondary feedback is the sound an instrument makes, primary feedback is everything else it does). He also provides a thought provoking overview of why people make NIMEs in the first place, which I find particularly interesting. Beyond techno-fetishism and fascination with the human-machine relationship, he posits that the #1 reason that people are interested in building new instruments is because of an insistence on cultural fluidity. People want new ways to make sound because they want their own tools\u2013they don\u2019t just accept what\u2019s given to them. No wonder so many NIME builders use Max.<\/p>\n

As Michael brings the presentation to a close, my mind is humming with new ideas to take back to the Cycling \u201874 think tank:<\/p>\n