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GEMINi - Gestural Music Interaction research group

Gemini
The Gestural Music Interaction research group was established in 2011 to act as a focus for our work in the areas of gesture-based and touch-based interfaces for both performance and composition. It takes advantage of staff specialisms in both electroacoustic composition and instrumental performance with live interactive electroacoustics.

Group members

Professor Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis is a composer specialising in acousmatic composition (music made with transformed sounds played back over multiple loudspeakers). He is especially interested in the physical gestures which listeners infer from recorded sounds, and in how these might be related to the actual gestures made by instrumentalists. He is currently exploring the creative potential of the Microsoft Kinect controller for creating works combining instrumental and acousmatic gesture.

Dr Xenia Pestova

Xenia Pestova is a pianist specialising in performance with live electronics. She is interested in the interdisciplinary relationships between music, technology and the arts, in human-computer interaction and in digital musical interfaces. She performs internationally, and frequently commissions leading composers to create works for piano and interactive electronics.

Kimon Emmannouil Grigoriadis

Ninos Grigoriadis is a PhD student and holder of a Bangor University Anniversary Scholarship. He is a composer whose interests include the use of technology in the creation and dissemination of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He is currently developing a touch-based system which uses physics-based graphics for the manipulation of sound material, both as compositional tool and a live performance interface.