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Accessible Music Technology creators since 1984

Groundbreaking interactive performance in Seoul with dancer Ara Go

Ara Go, Human Instruments and Dominant Agency Korea team up to create the world's first interactive dance performance with hearing impaired dancers and live conducting of the dancers, sound and light....

Read the article here...

Deaf dancers wear the 'buzzlets' to dance in synchrony

In a basement dance studio Dominant Agency and Human Instruments bring together three hearing impaired dancers Bomi Kang, Dasol Kim and Narae Lee to perform a correography by Jungsik Roh, and Ara Gho. For the first time ever three dancers feel the vibrations of music and a conductor's performance recorded the night before.

Watch the video here...

An Interactive workshop by Human Instruments and IEUM

IEUM in South Korea, Dominant Agency and Human Instruments collaborated in an interactive workshop for disabled musicians, using Microbit, Smartibot and Touch Board technology. Read more or watch the video

Concert in Seoul...

Our most recent concert with the Haptic Baton / Buzz Beat was at the 광림아트센터 Kwanglim Art Centre in Seoul, South Korea. We had a special programme in which an ensemble of visually impaired musicians and hearing impaired dancers played alongside sighted and hearing players with 5 different conductors consecutively. A marathon feat which has been put together by Dominant Agency and powered by Human Instruments.



On CNN...

#TechForGood, CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout speaks with Kyungho Jeon & Vahakn Matossian. Jeon co-created the #haptic #baton, a wearable device that converts movements into vibrations – allowing him to be led by a conductor and perform with an ensemble. Watch the Film

Design Partners Pursuit of Sound Report...

The future-focused Design Company Design Partners have featured Human Instruments in their latest report exploring the limits in musical instrument design, studying why people continue to develop new tools and devices for music creation. Featuring Tim Palm, John Kelly, Yuri Suzuki, Wintergatan and Ulfur Hansson...

Read the report and Watch the Webinar 


Now LIVE on Patreon...

We are now LIVE on Patreon. After a brilliantly successful support rally on Just Giving we have moved over to Patreon. Supporters and donate as little or as much as you wish on a monthly basis. This keeps projects as good as they can be and lets us plan for the future. 

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Stravinsky's Soldiers tale....

Musicians with and without visual impairments and dancers with and without hearing impairments are preparing The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky using Haptic Baton / BUZZBEAT for the first time ever with dancers and players simultaneously...

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'LIVE' Concert...

In Seoul Korea on Friday 22 January 2021, fourteen orchestra players both visually impaired and sighted took to the (covid safe) stage playing a special repertoire with our Accessible Music Technology the Haptic Baton led by acclaimed and boundary pushing conductor Sol Chin. 

Watch or listen here...

The Haptic Baton

Watch the BBC Stories documentary on our newest project with The Paraorchestra and Friends and Korean marimba virtuouso Kyungho Jeon.

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Also available in Korean | 한국에서도 사용 가능

EVENT Presented: Haptic Baton in Cairo in 12th September with ACCAC Global

RADIO  Rest in peace Rolf Gehlhaar co-founder. BBC Radio 4 Obituary here...

NEWS  CNN International on the Haptic Baton 


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