Marco Donnarumma

Also on stage Derek Holzer (DE). SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks, science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle “do-it-together-with-others”. Scope […]

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, and . Also on stage Holly Herndon (US) and Stefan Senf (DE).

– Demoing the new XTH Sense, wireless biowearable musical instrument Come and explore the ‘sounds that move us’ in this special evening blending multisensory science and philosophy with talks by musicians and researchers, demonstrations of sonic illusions, digital mapping, and even ‘sonic shoes’. Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. From […]

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, and . More TBA.

– Showing , a private experience of altered self-perception, for surround sound, subwoofers, light and high-power infrasound acoustic tranducers. Musikprotokoll is Austria’s Festival Platform for Contemporary and Experimental Music. It is organised annually by ORF (Austrian Broadcasting). Functioning as a kind of laboratory, musikprotokoll invites the audience to embark on an exploratory journey to discover […]

– Premiere of “0:Infinity” a new participative work for networked human bodies, biophysical music, light and spatial sound. Premiering 24-27th of September in the Electriciteitsfabriek at TodaysArt 2015, the festival for contemporary art and music in The Hague, Netherlands, 4DSOUND: Circadian presents interdisciplinary work from a diverse set of artists – all created exclusively with […]

– Preview of Corpus Nil, a body art performance for surround sound, reactive lights and biophysical media. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) gathers, since 2001, researchers and musicians from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design.

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. The workshop is presented jointly with Supernatant, and includes separate workshops by Rob Tubb and Wassim Alsindi.

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, and .

– Presenting the long paper “Understanding Gesture Expressivity through Muscle Sensing”, with co-authors Baptiste Caramiaux and Atau Tanaka. This oral presentation, sponsored by Goldsmiths, University of London, will include the most recent findings from our research on physiological computing for expressive interaction. Our related paper has been recently published in the ACM journal Transactions on […]

– Participating in the workshop “Collaborating with Intelligent Machines – Interfaces for Creative Sound” with a position paper entitled “Undoing control: human-machine configurations in gesture-based electronic musical performance”. This workshop brings together researchers, designers and instrument builders to explore how we can reframe the way we design “machines” for creative expression. For the purpose of […]

– Performing a concert of biophysical music including the pieces “Ominous” and “Music for Flesh II”, for surround sub system and light. Apiary & SONICA present an exclusive mix of audiovisual performances, kinetic art installations and electronic acts by outstanding sound and media artists from London, Ljubljana. Apiary Studios runs a cultural program celebrating experimentation […]

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, “Music for Flesh II” and “Ominous”. Also on stage Nicolas Collins and Arcangel Constantini. Opens at 8pm ’til 10.30pm. MusicMakers Hacklab_DF is a weeklong open, collaborative laboratory organised by Leslie Garcia and Paloma Lopez, hosted by Nicolas Collins and Marco Donnarumma. […]

– Tutoring a 6-days long collaborative laboratory to develop new projects exploring hybrid systems of human body, biology, and sound. MusicMakers Hacklab_DF is a weeklong open, collaborative laboratory hosted by Nicolas Collins, Marco Donnarumma and Peter Kirn. It allows practitioners from a range of disciplines to find new ways of exploring hybrid systems of human […]

– Invited talk “Being human: making and creating with biotechnologies”. More details and complete list of speakers to follow.

– Taking part in a 6-days long collaborative laboratory to develop new projects exploring hybrid systems of human body, biology, and sound. Now entering its 3rd edition within the CTM Festival, the Hacklab takes on the theme Tuning Machines, relating to some of the technological ramifications of CTM 2015 Un Tune – Exploring Sonic Affect. […]

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, “Music for Flesh II” and “Ominous”. Leslie García, the invited co-programmer of this year’s MusicMaker’s Hacklab, and Italian installation and sound artist Marco Donnarumma will both perform on Friday 23 January at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien as part of the Hacklab opening, which […]

– Panel discussion entitled “Awareness, expression and methodologies: a transdisciplinary discussion on the impact of media technology on sonic arts practices” With Linda O’Keefe (Interference Journal) and Heather Frasch (CNMAT). As technologies evolve over generations, so do the discourses within sonic arts practices. This panel investigates some of these still unfolding changes, including: an expansion […]

– Showcase of the biophysical musical instrument Xth Sense The BBC is hosting a half-day Music Tech Conference. The aim of this conference is to bring together industry experts from across the sector to debate key issues facing the digital music industry. This is a BBC Music Event, Supported by the BBC Academy. The Xth […]

– Talk entitled “Principles, Challenges and Future Directions of Physiological Computing for the Physical Performance of Digital Musical Instruments”, on a related paper written with Atau Tanaka. CIM14 will be aimed at all discourses on the interplay between technology and music, including collaborations between sciences and humanities, interactions between academic research and musical practice, and […]

– German premiere of “Nigredo”, a private experience of altered self-perception, for surround sound, subwoofers, light and high-power infrasound acoustic tranducers. The CYNETART international festival focuses on aspects in art, science, culture and media technology, and in particular, on broaching the issue of the change of the perception of the body by new information technologies. […]

– Performing with the Xth Sense in a trio with Fausten (MonsterX + Stormfield, AdNoiseam) Combat Recordings celebrates 10 years of focused mayhem with the release of its compilation this November. To celebrate, we kick off with a night or audiovisual assaults and live electronic jams. Amongst its many artists, Combat Recordings has released material […]

– Performing a solo concert for biophysical music. The concert will include two pieces, “Music for Flesh II” and “Ominous”. – Invited talk on designing and commercialising biotechnologies for musical performance using open source hardware and free software.

– A one-day seminar to discuss the development and future direction of the studies of the posthuman. With Rosi Braidotti, Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, Yuk Hui, Patricia MacCormack, Margrit Shildrick, Alexei Penzin.

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– Invited talk on biophysical music and biotechnological performance practice. Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University®, is a premier, private research university situated in Hoboken, N.J. overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Founded in 1870, technological innovation has been the hallmark and legacy of Stevens’ education and research programs for more than 140 years.

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. Complete info and registration: http://www.hyphenhub.com/#!workshops/c33j

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New York, New York 10002

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. This workshop is curated for the postgraduate students of Brera’s Therapeutic Arts program.

– Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense biophysical musical instrument. Discovery Festival is a progressive night festival that revolves around the excitement of discovering new things. By incorporating new science, new art and new music, Discovery Festival explores the current developments in scientific research, art and technology, and creates unique interdisciplinary linkages. With […]

– Workshop “Xth Sense, Biophysical Music”. Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance.
 Build your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. The workshop is presented jointly with a course hosted by Derek Holzer on the Soundboxes.

– One-day tour playing biophysical music concerts across several abandoned villages in the Estonian countryside. Audience, curators and artists travel together on a bus throughout a whole day of sound, silence, ghost houses and unexpected acoustics. Those villages are considered as null pointers; those points existing on maps and in cultural memory but which have […]

– Invited to the Estonian countryside for an artistic residency together with sound artist Derek Holzer. The residency will serve to develop new writing towards the realisation of a new musical performance. MAAJAAM is a project space in an old farm in Estonian countryside where art meets technology. Substituting the urban environment with a hilly […]

– Performing “Ominous”, incarnated sound sculpture for Xth Sense biophysical musical instrument. Live streaming from London. Access Space is the longest-running free media lab in the UK. It’s based in Sheffield city centre. Thousands of people participate every year, of all ages, from every part of the city, and beyond. We aim to inspire people […]

– Chairing demo and poster track + off-conference TBA events. New Interfaces for Musical Expression is the premier conference in designing human-computer interfaces and interactions for musical performance. NIME gathers researchers and practitioners around lectures, installations, concerts, and workshops. We are delighted to host NIME 2014 at Goldsmiths, University of London, bringing NIME to the […]

– Talk on the Xth Sense and the related performances and installations developed in the past 4 years. Building on the core commissions and multi-media performances of the Syndrome programme, and preparing us for coming month’s explorations of interaction design, Mercy and Hive present vital approaches and ideas around control and sensation in The Box at […]

– Poster “On Bodily Emergence as a Model for the Performance of Incarnated Sound”. MOCO is the first International Workshop on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modelling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. The workshop aims at promoting scientific and artistic collaborations […]

– Heidi Boisvert and myself, co-founders of Xth an open biotechnologies startup, have been invited to sponsor the Music Hack Day at Sónar+D by providing hackers with Xth Sense biophysical sensors to develop a new interactive project in 24 hours.