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Highlights from the 2nd edition of Future Music Lab at Atlantic Music Festival, featuring this year’s Fellow Laureates, Maja Cerar (violin), Sam Jones (trumpet), Jennifer Ellis (harp) and Nicolee Kuester (horn/voice). The Future Music Lab is an all-fellowship intensive four-week program designed with a goal of immersing exceptionally gifted musicians into the world of new music technologies. Participants will have opportunity to work with award winning violinist and composer Mari Kimura through individual lessons, seminars, and group presentations. The session will focus on developing insights into new music performance, the use of interactive computer technology, extended technique, improvisation, and composition.

The Future Music Lab is an official collaboration with IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris. Participants will have the access to the IRCAM FORUM, and to the state-of-the-art technology including motion sensor “MO” (Modular Musical Objects developed at IRCAM). MO can be used as a bowing motion sensor (which is called Augmented Violin system) or applied to other instruments, dance or theater. Augmented Violin System will be provided by Phonotonic, a 'satellite' French company developing novel approaches to tangible music interaction and marketing the system in collaboration with IRCAM.