Symposium on Digital Musical Interactions OODI Maijansali, Helsinki / 14 November

The symposium, Socio-Cultural Role of Technology in Digital Musical Interactions, discussed critically our relationships with music and digital musical instruments, exploring how these new relationships build embodied behaviours, expectations, beliefs, interpretations and actions in various ways we practice and act on music through digital technologies. This symposium brought together expert scholars, artists and practitioners from the musicology, music performance, new interfaces for musical expression, sound and music computing and postphenomenology studies. The participants were; Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, Marc Leman, University of Ghent – Tarja Rautiainen, University of Tampere Finland – Taina Riikonen, University of Tampere Finland – Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex and Simon Waters, The Queens University Belfast.http://dmi.aalto.fi/symposium19/index.html