The Integra 2008 International Conference ‘Solving the tensions between musicians and technology’ took place at Birmingham Conservatoire on 5-7 June 2008, alongside the Integra 2008 International Festival. The conference took place at the end of the first phase of the Integra project and featured presentations by several Integra project members, who were joined by invited speakers to discuss the challenges of creating and performing music with live electronics.

Integra Presentations

Lamberto Coccioli, Why Integra? (Keynote speech)
Luca Francesconi, Des-integrations (Keynote speech)
Thierry Coduys, High tension lines (Keynote speech)

Natasha Barrett, Composition and the “Live-Electroacoustic”: time, sound-worlds, control and ensemble
Andrea Cera, Distortions in listening and imitation. Rational programming vs. instinctive programming
Sean Ferguson and Marlon Schumacher, The Integra GUI prototype
Jamie Bullock, Henrik Frisk and Henrik Sundt, The Integra OSC protocol, from idea to implementation
Pierre Jodlowski, Incidence de l’utilisation des technologies dans la pratique musicale
Philippe Leroux, Compositional principles of Voi(rex)
Stefan Östersjö and Henrik Frisk, The augmented score: Documenting the process rather than the result
Michele Tadini, Modelling compositional structures in live interactive environments