dBâle electronic music festival basel

interfaces-instruments-installations

30 may - 1 june 2008

Imprimerie

St. Johanns-Vorstadt 19-21

4056 Basel

Chikashi Miyama

Chikashi Miyama received his BA (2002) and MA (2004) from the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, Japan and Nachdiplom (2007) from Elektronische Studio, Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, Switzerland. He is currently attending the State University of New York at Buffalo for his ph.D. He has studied under T.Rai, C.Lippe, E.Oña, and G.F.Haas.

His works, especially his interactive multimedia works, have been performed at international festivals, such as June in Buffalo 2001 (New York, USA) , Mix '02 (Arfus, Denmark), Musica Viva '03 (Coimbra, Portugal), Realtime/non-realtime electronic music festival (Basel, Switzerland), Next generation '05 (Karlsruhe, Germany), as well as in various cities in Japan.

His papers about his works and realtime visual processing software "DIPS" have also been accepted by ICMC, and presented at several SIGMUS conferences. Since 2005, he has been performing as a laptop musician, employing his original sensor devices and involving himself in several media-art activities, such as Dorkbot, Shift-Festival, Museumsnacht Basel, and SGMK workshops.

His compositions have received honorable mention in the Residence Prize section of the 30th International Electroacoustic Music Competition Bourges and have been accepted by the International Computer Music Conference in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Several works of him are published, including the Computer Music Journal Vol.28 DVD by MIT press and the ICMC 2005 official CD.