Five works by students of Associate Prof. Fujii’s x-Music Lab have been accepted for the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2026. Started in 2001, NIME gathers researchers and musicians from around the world to share and present innovations in musical interface design.
The five submissions—two performances and one installation in the Music category, and two papers in the Paper category—were presented, performed, and exhibited at this year’s conference in London, UK. Of these, the performance piece “parasitic” earned an honorable mention as an outstanding work in the Music category.
For the third consecutive year, multiple works by members of the x-Music Lab have been selected from a competitive global pool. Full coverage of their achievement at NIME 2025 is available in Japanese: 藤井研究室の学生らの3作品がNIME 2025に採択、2作品が「Highly Commended」に選出 (Three Fujii Lab Submissions Accepted for NIME 2025; Two Earn “Highly Commended”).
“I feel deeply privileged to receive an honorable mention at NIME 2026,” noted Kikuchi, the lead author of “parasitic.” “This piece was created as my graduation project during my undergraduate studies. I hit a wall several times along the way, but thanks to the support of many people, I was able to bring the work to fruition.
I am deeply grateful to my advisors at the x-Music Lab, Fujii-sensei, Uozumi-sensei, and Kobayashi-sensei for their dedicated guidance. I also wish to express my sincere thanks to Shinnosuke Hirose and Risako Shibata for their collaboration in the performance and to all the Lab members who provided invaluable feedback on the project.”
Accepted works and papers
Music category (Performance)
parasitic
— Awarded the “Music Performance Honorary Mention”
・Takuma
Kikuchi (Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC; Graduate of Faculty of
Environment and Information Studies)
・Shinnosuke Hirose (1st year master’s, Graduate School
of Media and Governance)
・Risako Shibata (Researcher, Keio Research Institute at
SFC; Graduate of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
・Ryoho Kobayashi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate
School of Media and Governance; Associate Prof., J. F. Oberlin University)
・Yuta Uozumi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School
of Media and Governance)
・Shinya Fujii (Associate Prof., Faculty of Environment
and Information Studies)
Designing Strategic
Incongruity: An Audio Device for Sharpening Pencils
・Shinnosuke Hirose (1st year master’s, Graduate School of Media and
Governance)
・Yuta Uozumi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School
of Media and Governance)
・Ryoho Kobayashi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate
School of Media and Governance; Associate Prof., J. F. Oberlin University)
・Shinya Fujii (Associate Prof., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Music category (Installation)
・Moe Miyake (1st year master’s, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Yuta Uozumi (Project
Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Ryoho Kobayashi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate
School of Media and Governance; Associate Prof., J. F. Oberlin University)
・Shinya Fujii (Associate Prof., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Paper category
Orbis: Composing a
Light-and-Sound Installation with Min Waves Generated in Artificial Cells
・Yukihiro Sugawara (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information
Studies)
・Kotaro Watanabe (Graduate of Faculty of Environment
and Information Studies)
・Shinnosuke Hirose (1st year master’s, Graduate School
of Media and Governance)
・Moe Miyake (1st year master’s, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Kenshiro Taira (1st year master’s, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Sakura Takada (Assistant Prof., Keio University Global Research Institute)
・Ryoho Kobayashi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Media and Governance; Associate Prof., J. F. Oberlin University)
・Yuta Uozumi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Kei Fujiwara (Associate Prof., Faculty of Science and Technology)
・Shinya Fujii (Associate Prof., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Designing Strategic
Incongruity: An Audio Device for Sharpening Pencils
・Shinnosuke Hirose (1st year master’s, Graduate School of Media and
Governance)
・Yuta Uozumi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Media and Governance)
・Ryoho Kobayashi (Project Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Media and Governance; Associate Prof., J. F. Oberlin University)
・Shinya Fujii (Associate Prof., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
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