Rossby Waving for Violin, MUGIC® sensor, and video

Mari Kimura

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The title was taken from “Rossby Wave”, a natural atmospheric phenomenon relating to rotation of the planet. When the Rossby Wave ‘breaks’, it could cause extreme climate conditions as El Niño/La Niña. The piece consists of a ‘flexible ostinato’, a somewhat regular ‘wave’ of violin sound that’s processed and flows. The motion sensor MUGIC® detects and interprets the character of the bowing movements which affect ‘ostinato’ in its timbre and character. Some irregular and disruptive motive starts to affect the regular ostinato, sometimes mangling it. Eventually both the violin and ostinato flows freely, sometimes and sometimes not, affecting each other. The accompanying video was created by media artist Liubo Borissov, using Artmatic Voyager and Max (Jitter). Rossby Waving is dedicated to the memory of Jean-Claude Risset who passed away in November, 2016.

Citation

Mari Kimura. 2021. Rossby Waving for Violin, MUGIC® sensor, and video. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.99072877 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2021_music_33,
 abstract = {The title was taken from “Rossby Wave”, a natural atmospheric phenomenon relating to rotation of the planet. When the Rossby Wave ‘breaks’, it could cause extreme climate conditions as El Niño/La Niña. The piece consists of a ‘flexible ostinato’, a somewhat regular ‘wave’ of violin sound that’s processed and flows. The motion sensor MUGIC® detects and interprets the character of the bowing movements which affect ‘ostinato’ in its timbre and character. Some irregular and disruptive motive starts to affect the regular ostinato, sometimes mangling it. Eventually both the violin and ostinato flows freely, sometimes and sometimes not, affecting each other. The accompanying video was created by media artist Liubo Borissov, using Artmatic Voyager and Max (Jitter). Rossby Waving is dedicated to the memory of Jean-Claude Risset who passed away in November, 2016.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {33},
 author = {Mari Kimura},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.99072877},
 editor = {Eric Parren and Wei Chen},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 title = {Rossby Waving for Violin, MUGIC® sensor, and video},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.99072877},
 year = {2021}
}