Three works by students belonging to the x-Music Lab of Associate Professor Shinya Fujii in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies have been accepted for NIME 2025, an international conference on musical interfaces, with two of those works selected as "Highly Commended."
NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) is an international conference on new musical experiences and interactions founded in 2001, attended by researchers and artists from around the world. While many works were submitted from across the globe again this year, it is a remarkable achievement that the students' works met the standards of international experts for acceptance, and were further recognized as outstanding achievements by being selected as "Highly Commended."
Accepted Works
【Highly Commended】
Orbis
Kodai Sugawara (3rd Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Kotaro Watanabe (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Shinnosuke Hirose (4th Year, Faculty of Policy Management)
Moe Miyake (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Kenshiro Taira (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Sakura Takada (Faculty of Science and Technology, JSPS Research Fellow PD)
Yoshiho Kobayashi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance / Associate Professor, J. F. Oberlin University)
Yuta Uozumi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Kei Fujiwara (Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology)
Shinya Fujii (Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
【Highly Commended】
Playing the sound image
Risako Shibata (Graduate, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies / Member, Keio Research Institute at SFC)
Miki Kanda (Graduate, Faculty of Policy Management)
Kenta Tanaka (Completed Master's Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance / Member, Keio Research Institute at SFC)
Yoshiho Kobayashi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance / Associate Professor, J. F. Oberlin University)
Yuta Uozumi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Shinya Fujii (Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
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Takuma Kikuchi (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Riki Saito (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Risako Shibata (Graduate, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies / Member, Keio Research Institute at SFC)
Atsuya Tsuchida (3rd Year, Faculty of Policy Management) Kenshiro Taira (4th Year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Anan Nimisha (4th Year, Faculty of Policy Management)
Yoshiho Kobayashi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance / Associate Professor, J. F. Oberlin University)
Yuta Uozumi (Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Shinya Fujii (Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Comment from Kodai Sugawara, Representative of the 【Highly Commended】 Orbis Team
I am deeply honored to have been selected as Highly Commended at NIME 2025. In connecting knowledge of artificial cell engineering to expressions of sound and light, the collaboration of many researchers and artists across various fields, including Professor Fujiwara and Ms. Takada from the Faculty of Science and Technology, was a great source of strength. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone in the laboratory and all those involved who provided guidance and cooperation in the creation of this work.
Comment from Risako Shibata, Representative of the 【Highly Commended】 Playing the sound image Team
I am deeply honored to have been selected as Highly Commended at NIME 2025. This research began as my graduation project during my undergraduate years in 2023, and it was a performance piece that has been viewed at past events such as the ORF. I am happy that the days spent on production over the last two years have been rewarded. I received guidance and cooperation from many people from the conceptual stage until the day of the conference, including Professor Fujii and Professor Uozumi from the seminar, my co-creator and performer Miki Kanda, artist Mayo Kobayashi, and members of the seminar. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who was involved in the production of this work and to everyone who viewed it.
Source: Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office, General Affairs