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Tip Master Class with Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura

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 ā€œvirtuoso 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 subharmonics—the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s 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 ā€œImmigrants: Pride of Americaā€ by the Carnegie Corporation. 
 
In 2020, Mari released MUGICĀ® commercially. A small WIFI device which can be worn as a ā€˜wearable tech’ 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.
 
Mari’s recent works focus on human/machine integration using MUGICĀ®, performing, composing, and commissioning new works. In 2019, Mari commissioned composer Dai Fujikura to write ā€œMotion Notionsā€ published by Ricordi and recorded by Mirabel/SONY; in 2021, Mari composed ā€œIron Birdā€ for cymbal and MUGICĀ®, for virtuoso percussionist Aiyun Huang, premiered at the Nabla Festival in Italy; she also composed ā€œKISMETā€ for Decipher Ensemble, premiered at the New Music for Strings festival in Aarhus, Denmark; and most recently Mari composed ā€œPensamientoā€ 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 ā€œIntegrated 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

ā€œA virtuoso playing at the edgeā€ 

–New York Times

ā€œCreative Vibration; my free violinā€

-feature article in La Rebubblica, Italy

MEDIA LINKS

https://mugicmotion.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mugicmotion/

Mari Kimura

Described as a ā€œvirtuoso 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
subharmonics—the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s
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 ā€œImmigrants: Pride of Americaā€ by the Carnegie Corporation. In 2020, Mari
released MUGICĀ® commercially. A small WIFI device which can be worn as a ā€˜wearable
tech’ 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. Mari’s recent works focus on
human/machine integration using MUGICĀ®, performing, composing, and commissioning new
works. In 2019, Mari commissioned composer Dai Fujikura to write ā€œMotion Notionsā€
published by Ricordi and recorded by Mirabel/SONY; in 2021, Mari composed ā€œIron
Birdā€ for cymbal and MUGICĀ®, for virtuoso percussionist Aiyun Huang, premiered at
the Nabla Festival in Italy; she also composed ā€œKISMETā€ for Decipher Ensemble,
premiered at the New Music for Strings festival in Aarhus, Denmark; and most
recently Mari composed ā€œPensamientoā€ 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 ā€œIntegrated 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/