Guggenheim award-winning composer/violinist, educator/entrepreneur Mari Kimura will give talk about her work and the evolution of the of MUGICĀ®, a WIFI motion sensor designed for musicians, performers, dancers and beyond. Mari will demonstrate how MUGICĀ® works in many situations, as well as perform works she wrote using MUGICĀ®. The commercial version of MUGICĀ® was released last September and is now available for purchase at https://mugicmotion.com/
⢠DATES AND TIMES: Saturday January 20 from 1 – 3 pm
⢠LOCATION: Harvestworks Studio 596 Broadway Suite 602 NY. NY 10013 @ Houston Street in Manhattan
Please note that our space is limited and restricted to those who RSVP


BIO
Described as a āvirtuoso playing at the edgeā by the New York Times, Mari Kimura is a prolific violinist/composer, a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music, and most recently known as an entrepreneur developing a motion sensor system called MUGICĀ®. Mari is renowned for her mastery of subharmonicsāthe production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violinās lowest string. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission Award from Harvard, a residency at IRCAM in Paris, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In recognition of her ground-breaking work, Mari was named āImmigrants: Pride of Americaā by the Carnegie Corporation.
In 2020, Mari released MUGICĀ® commercially. A small WIFI device which can be worn as a āwearable techā or attached to objects, MUGICĀ® is intended to eliminate the disciplinary divide and enable new forms of art to emerge and flourish. Today, MUGICĀ® has been used by musicians, dancers, and visual artists across the globe. MUGICĀ® is also acquired for educational purpose by many noteworthy institutions such as Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the Peabody Institute, University of Arts (UdK)in Berlin, Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School.
Mariās recent works focus on human/machine integration using MUGICĀ®, performing, composing, and commissioning new works. In 2019, Mari commissioned composer Dai Fujikura to write āMotion Notionsā published by Ricordi and recorded by Mirabel/SONY; in 2021, Mari composed āIron Birdā for cymbal and MUGICĀ®, for virtuoso percussionist Aiyun Huang, premiered at the Nabla Festival in Italy; she also composed āKISMETā for Decipher Ensemble, premiered at the New Music for Strings festival in Aarhus, Denmark; and most recently Mari composed āPensamientoā for piano and MUGICĀ®, which was premiered at MIT in Boston.
A Graduate Faculty at The Juilliard School since 1998, Mari was appointed as Full Professor of Music at āIntegrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technologyā at UC Irvine in 2017. During the Covid shutdown, she earned MBA degree at UCI in June 2022. In 2020, Mari was nominated as the Entrepreneur Leader of the Year award at UCI and received the Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the US. House of Representatives and the California Legislature Assembly. MUGICĀ® is available at https://mugicmotion.com/
For more info about Mari, please visit http://www.marikimura.com
PRESS QUOTES
āA virtuoso playing at the edgeā
āNew York Times
āCreative Vibration; my free violinā
-feature article in La Rebubblica, Italy
MEDIA LINKS
https://www.instagram.com/mugicmotion/
