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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 and museum consultant based in the SF
Bay Area consulting with companies such as The Tech Museum of
Innovation, 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 project
manager and 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.
In 2007-08, Blaine
was 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, Shakini, the Arkansas Bindi
Society and Pandemonaeon. She has also recorded with Brian Eno,
Mickey Hart, Haunted by Waters, D'CuCKOO, Tracy Blackman, Sharon
Knight, Eda Maxym's Imagination Club and others lured by the call
of the drum.
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