The Second
BERGEN INTERACTIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE (BIMUC 08)
April 28th-30th in Bergen 2008

BIMUC 2008 photo gallery
Please click on this link to see photos from the conference. Proceedings will be published on this website august 2008.

ENHANCED CONFERENCE PROGRAMME!
We are proud to present this years Conference Programme, which now also includes links to abstracts of the presentations. We are looking forward to a conference with presenters coming from different corners of the world presenting research and projects from very interesting and diverse fields.
To see the complete program, click here: Conference Program BIMUC-08 (pdf) or Conference Program BIMUC-08 (doc)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ARE:
Professor Liora Bresler, University of Illionois, USA:
"Performing Arts as Experiential Educational Fields"
Professor Xie Jiaxing, China Conservatory of Music, China:
"Music Education and Musical Diversity in Mainland China"

INVITED SPEAKERS ARE:
Peter Will, Germany: "Little Mozart"
John Hillier, UK: "Gigakam: Creating musicians!"
Yann Seznec, UK: "Wii Loop Machine"

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Bergen Interactive Music Conference (BIMUC) is an international conference focusing on new challenges for music education in schools, universities, communities and
art institutions. The aim of the conference is to gather together researchers,
teachers and artists to share and discuss research and new approaches to
music in learning and creative and artistic development of young people.
The conference language is English.

The Conference is co-ordinated with the music festival Bergen Fest 2008,
an annual international music festival consisting of a great number of concerts,
youth programmes and other music events. BIMUC also includes a sequense of
symposia on music education and traditional music. The conference is
organised as an academic conference with invited speakers
and a variety of presentations and interactive sessions in different focus areas.



The first international Bergen Interactive Music Conference (BIMUC)
is successful history

BIMUC-07 was held in the city of Bergen, Norway from Wednesday 25th through Friday the 27th of April in close cooperation between Stord/Haugesund University College, Grieg Music Education and the international music festival BergenFest 2007.

The first international BIMUC turned out to be the international vibrant meeting place for teachers, performers and projectors we hoped for.

Enthusiastic speakers and delegates from different sectors of music and music education shared and engaged in debates about new projects, research and perspectives on music learning and the creative and artistic development of young people.

To all of you who took part: THANK YOU!

Online proceedings with texts, pictures and video are available on this website.

You can enjoy the Student Forums BIMUC-07 blogspot here.