Technologies of Touch

Astrid Bin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Astrid Bin is a Research Associate in the Wearable Computing Group at UdK Berlin. She leads development of this project’s interactive wearables, which includes hardware, materials, 3D printing, fabrication, and real-time sensor and audio processing.

Berit Greinke

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Berit is an investigator in Technologies of Touch and a professor in Wearable Computing at Berlin University of the Arts. She researches wearable technology with a focus on electronic textiles as material practice and tool for artistic expression.

Erämaa Trio

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Erämaa Trio was founded in 2016 by Cédric de Bruycker, Akiko Okawa and Quentin Meurisse, three musicians who graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Hogeschool Gent in contemporary music. Erämaa performs regularly at festivals and venues and frequently plays in Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Japan.

maj nikita doehring

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Atau Tanaka

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chae-Lin Kim

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ricardo Rodrigues

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Sabine Huschka

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

PD Dr. Sabine Huschka is a Berlin-based scholar of dance and theatre studies, holding a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) in Theatre Studies. She has been a research associate on the Technologies of Touch project, specifically the sub-project Touch and Embodiment Theory, at UdK Berlin since September 2025.

Ariane Jeßulat

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Federico Visi

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Evan O'Donnell

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Evan O’Donnell is a London-based composer, performer, and researcher. His current work investigates expressive rhythmic timing, embodied musicality, practice-led design methodologies, and bespoke applications of generative music technology.

Nathan Adams

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Primary Interactive Workshop, Berlin

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A two-day workshop for the team to do the first round of testing the Erämaa Trio and collaborator Celine Kim.

Konzertsaal, UdK Berlin

Workshop: First test of wearables in live music setting

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On October 5 & 6 2026 the entire Technologies of Touch team will meet in Berlin. Day 1 will be a review of project progress and technical testing with collaborator Celine Kim. Day 2 we welcome Erämaa Trio, and will conduct our first tests of the wearable prototypes in the context of their performance of Déplacement by Atau Tanaka.

First round of wearable prototypes

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

First round of prototypes is ready for our first interactive workshop. Photos to follow.

NIME 2026: What NIME Talks About When It Talks About Touch

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Touch is a key concept in music performance and interactive music practice, encompassing both physical interactions and metaphorical understandings. Within the NIME archive, however, touch remains largely untheorised as a concept, despite its centrality to computer-mediated musical practice. Although many works mention touch, the term carries multiple, often unexamined meanings. We ask, then: What does NIME talk about when it talks about touch?We answered that question through a reflexive thematic analysis of the NIME archive with a semantic approach. We began by constructing a corpus from the NIME proceedings, coding the mentions of “touch” across 119 works, and iteratively sorting and organising these codes to construct themes. We constructed three major themes (Applied Technology and Design, Historical and Contextual, and Expanded Discussion), and found that operational descriptions dominate NIME’s touch discourse. This paper presents our methodology and results, and argues that without conceptual clarity on touch, important dimensions of musical expression and embodied interaction remain under-explored in NIME. We conclude by highlighting areas for inquiry that bridge music practice and technological design.

Publication at NIME

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Technologies of Touch has a paper at NIME 2026 in London. Entitled “What NIME Talks About When It Talks About Touch”, this publication represents a thematic analysis of the NIME corpus 2000-2025. NIME is a community deeply engaged with music, but when we looked in the literature we could find little directly about touch. Since touch is a huge part of music we carried out this analysis to get a full picture of what NIME says on the theme of “touch”.

Workshop: Ethics of Touch

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On April 27 & 28 2026 the entire Technologies of Touch team will meet in Berlin for a workshop on the Ethics of Touch.

On Day 1 we will welcome speakers who will talk on the topic of accessibility, consent and ethics. These speakers include:

Fabio Morreale, Sony AI, Barcelona ES
Celine Kim, mdw, Vienna AT
Jay Pocknell, Sound Without Sight, Bristol UK

On day 2 we welcome a number of performers to the Kammersaal at UdK, to perform and talk about the role of touch in their practice. These performers include:

Ethics of Touch Workshop in Berlin

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A two-day workshop for the research team to interrogate the ethics of touch.

Speakers included:

Fabio Morreale, Sony AI, Barcelona ES
Celine Kim, mdw, Vienna AT
Jay Pocknell, Sound Without Sight, Bristol UK