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inspired by global traditions and spontaneous music-making, Tina
Blaine (also known by her stage name, “Bean”) is an
entertainment technology consultant based in the SF Bay Area consulting
with companies such as Thinkwell Design, Rapport, Inc., Yahoo!,
Rhythmix Cultural Works Community Arts Center and the Franklin
Institute. Blaine taught for five years at Carnegie Mellon University’s
Entertainment Technology Center, developing collective experiences
that integrate game design, sonic discovery, and interactive media.
Before joining CMU, she worked at Interval Research as a musical
“interactivist,” leading a development team in the
creation of the Jam-O-Drum, a collaborative audiovisual instrument
now on permanent exhibit at the Experience Music Project in Seattle.
Blaine’s subsequent research and projects with CMU students
have been featured at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies, Zeum's
Youth Art and Technology Center in San Francisco, Children's Hospital
and Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Give Kids the World
Resort in Orlando, LABoral in Gijon, Spain and Ars Electronica's
Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria.
Blaine embarked upon
her exploration of musical interaction techniques in the 1980s,
building electronic MIDI controller instruments and large-scale
audience participation devices for live performance with the multimedia
ensemble D’Cuckoo. She has written for numerous publications
including Electronic Musician and the Journal for
New Music Research, and is co-founder of the New Interfaces
for Musical Expression (NIME) conference. In 2005, she was honored
for her inspiring, innovative work in the sciences by the Women
and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania and the Carnegie
Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA. She also was selected for Richard
Saul Wurman’s 2002 publication, Who’s Really Who:
1000 Most Creative Individuals in the USA.
Blaine was recently
invited to be an artistic advisor at the Studio
for Electro Instrumental Music in Amsterdam. She has written
music for NPR, video games, TV and documentary soundtracks. Blaine
currently performs with Maze Daiko and the Enchantress Goddesses,
and has also recorded with Brian Eno, Mickey Hart, Haunted by
Waters, D'CuCKOO, Pandemoneon, Tracy Blackman, Sharon Knight,
Eda Maxym's Imagination Club and others lured by the call of the
drum.
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