coretet
I'm a member of the faculty (currently on sabbatical) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) located in Troy, New York. I teach courses focused on the integration of music and technology, as well as courses within the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program focused on music, gaming and simulation.
My research interests encompass elements of composition, electronic music, human-computer interaction, cognition, sonification, network performance, gaming and virtual reality. In short, I'm interested in digging deeper into the ways in which we create, control, listen to and understand sound and music.
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teaching @ rpi
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Past Courses
media
SIGGRAPH 2021
Trois Machins de la Grace...
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture)
Coretet
108 Troubles
Carillon
IEEE Computing Now
Ensemble Nonlinear
NIME'16
ECHO::Canyon
GDC'14
WAIR Miami
upcoming events
5.31 - 6.2.2022
I am serving as the Music Co-Chair for the 2023 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) International conference in Mexico City, Mexico
(https://www.nime2023.org/)
5.8 - 5.12.2022
I will present an invited paper entitled "Real-time musical performance across and within extended reality environments" at the 2023 Acoustical Society of America conference in Chicago, Illinois as part of the special session on Computational Acoustics: Real-Time Computing
(https://acousticalsociety.org/chicago-2022/)
recent events
6.7.2022
I served as the remote co-host for the 2022 Ecos Urbanos Festival (Mexico City, Mexico) and performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) streamed remotely from Rensselaer's EMPAC Studio 2
(video)
6.7.2022
I performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the 2022 SMC Conference in St. Etienne, France
(video)
8.10.2021
Coretet was selected and presented at the 2021 SIGGRAPH conference's Real-Time Live show, "the premier celebration of the top original, jury-reviewed interactive projects of the year."
(video)
8.2021
I was elected as Head of the Arts Department in the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer.
7.26.2021
I presented the paper "Ensemble Nonlinear: Low-cost Ensemble Performance with Networked Raspberry Pi's" at the 2021 International Computer Music Conference.
7.2021
I served as chair of the new XR Music track at the 2021 International Computer Music Conference, leading a team of Rensselaer graduate students to design and develop a virtual musical gallery using Mozilla Hubs.
6.14.2021
I was interviewed for the Dartmouth College Class of '96 "Roads Taken" podcast, discussing my educational and creative backgrounds in music, technology and beyond.
2.5.2021
I gave a talk entitled "Virtual Instrument Design for the 21st Century/La conception d'instruments virtuels pour le 21e siècle" at the 2021 IRCAM Forum Montréal organized by McGill University/SAT Montréal.
(video)
1.19.2021
With Luca Turchet and Anil Çamci I published the paper "Music in Extended Realities" in the Open Access IEEE Access Journal, outlining historic and current trends in the application of virtual reality, augmented reality and extended reality technologies for musical creation, production and consumption.
(link)
1.1.2021
A book chapter I wrote about the composition and design of Coretet and Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante entitled "Composing (and Designing) Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante: a Virtual Reality String Quartet" is being published within the book "Ludified: Artistic Research in Audiovisual Composition, Performance and Perception" by The Green Box, Berlin. The book was edited by Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg and Andreas Pirchner.
(link)
11.30.2020
My recent paper "od: Composing Spatial Multimedia for the Web" co-written with Cem Cakmak has been published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (Vol. 68, Issue 10).
(link)
7.10.2020
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Santiago, Chile.
(link)
7.10.2020
The paper "Ensemble Nonlinear: Low-cost Ensemble Performance with Networked Raspberry Pi's" was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Santiago, Chile.
(link)
4.01.2020
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) was selected to be presented at the virtual showing of the 2020 New York City Electroacoutic Music Festival (NYCEMF).
(link)
3.07.2020
I performed Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) at the Moxsonic Festival on March 7, 2020 at University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.
1.8.2020
Along with Anil Camci I served as Guest Editor of Volume 49, Special Issue #1 of the Journal of New Music Research entitled "Audio-first VR: New Perspectives on Musical Experiences in Virtual Environments." Focusing on artistic and scientific research about and around the issue of audio's primary role in the creation and understanding of virtual reality software and environments, the issue also features our contribution "Audio-first VR: Imagining the Future of Virtual Environments for Musical Expression". (link, .pdf)
12.6.2019
At the 2019 Web Audio Conference in Trondheim, Norway, Rensselaer Arts Ph.D. candidate Cem Cakmak and I were awarded the Best Paper award for the paper "Composing Spatial Music with Web Audio and WebVR". (link...)
10.15.2019
Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante was performed at the 14th annual International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2019) in Marseille, France.
10.05.2019
One Who Lives Near The Olive Tree was performed at CCRMA Modulations 2019 at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
10.03.2019
Elegy (Ready, Set, Rapture) was performed at CCRMA Transitions 2019 on October 3, 2019 at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. (video)
6.28.2019
Along with Chrysi Nanou I gave a Coretet demonstration and a poster entitled "Collaborative Musical Performance Practice, Gesture and Interaction in Virtual and Real Spaces” at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, UK for Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age: A joint conference by the 'Re-'Interdisciplinary Network (CRASSH) and the AI & Society Journal. (.pdf)
6.17.2019
The paper "Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante: a Virtual Reality String Quartet" was presented at the 2019 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2019) in New York City, New York, USA. (.pdf)
6.6.2019
Ready, Set, Rapture for the Coretet VR doublebass was performed by Jeremy Baguyos at the 2019 ISB (International Society of Bassists) Conference at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana.
3.29-31.2019
Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante (Mvt. II) for VR string coretet was featured at the GAPPP symposium of game-centric musical works at the Mumuth, Ligeti Hall in Graz, Austria. The work was performed and also served as the "proposition" for which there were presented two separate "responses", one artistic - in the shape of a new musical work composed by Pedro Gonzales Fernandez in response to the Coretet - and one analytic, in the form of a lecture by Costantino Oliva. more...
3.24.2019
With Anil Camcil I hosted a workshop at the 2019 IEEE VR Conference in Osaka, Japan entitled "The Future of Audio for VR". More information @ http://favr2019.github.io. Coretet ran as a demo on the 25th and 26th and the Coretet overview video was featured throughout the conference.
2.4.2019
I visited the University of Nebraska, Omaha to give a lecture and concert of my music as part of their Music and Technology series. There I performed Carillon, alone+easy, One Who Lives Near the Olive Tree, and a new work Ready.Set.Rapture. for Coretet doublebass with bassist Jeremy Baguyos.
1.5.2019
One Who Lives Near the Olive Tree was performed on the 2019 San Francisco Tape Music Festival at the 16th Street Victoria Theater in San Francisco, CA, USA..
11.23.2018
I was invited as the Special Guest Composer for the 2018 Ecos Urbanos Festival in Mexico City, Mexico. Trois Machins de la grâce aimante (mvt. II) for virtual string quartet and the Coretet VR instrument was performed at the Escuela Superior de Música in the SUM (Salón de Usos Múltiples), Avenida Río Churubusco 79, Country Club, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, at 8pm. [concert link]
11.9.2018
Carillon was performed at the Electroacoustic Barndance Festival at Jacksonville University, in Jacksonville, Florida (http://eabarndance.com/) on concert 5 in the Terry Concert Hall.
9.27.2018
Trois Machins de la grâce aimante (mvt. II) for virtual string quartet and the new Coretet VR instrument was premiered at the IEM in Graz as part of the GAPPP research initiative headed up by Marko Ciciliani.
More information/video: https://youtu.be/cgODPY90pAU
More information/video: https://youtu.be/cgODPY90pAU
8.20-24.18
With Chris Platz I hosted our annual Designing Musical Games::Gaming Musical Design weeklong Summer Workshop at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
( Workshop Link )
08.07.2018
Pianist Chrysi Nanou performed 108 Troubles for piano, disklavier and speaker array at ICMC 2018 in Daegu, Korea.
6.18-22.18
I gave a weeklong "Designing Musical Games" workshop at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City.
06.06.2018
Pianist Chrysi Nanou performed 108 Troubles for piano, disklavier and speaker array in two concerts at NIME 2018 at Virginia Tech in the CUBE, within the Moss Arts Center.
06.03.2018
Along with Anil Camci I organized and ran the "Audio-First VR" workshop at NIME 2018 at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Abstracts and more information can be found at audio1stvr.github.io
04.22.2018
I performed an improvisation alongside Jonas Braasch and Justin Yang in an acoustic model of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening cistern as part of the NowNet Arts Conference.
04.20.2018
As part of the NowNet Arts Conference "Network Music: Artistic and Technological Strategies for Public and Private Networks" at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University, Ensemble Nonlinear traveled to Long Island, New York to perform a network duet with performers at the University of Michigan under the direction of John Granzow.
06.24.2017
For ICMC 2017 in Shanghai, China, I presented three papers co-written with Rensselaer Faculty and graduate students: "Musical Sonification of High-Frequency Lighting" with Cem Cakmak, "madBPM: A Modular Multimodal Environment for Data-Driven Composition And Sonification" with Kelly Fox and Jeremy Stewart, and "Interactive Music and Media @ Rensselaer: Studio Report 2017" with Curtis Bahn.
06.24.2017
One Who Lives Near The Olive Tree for 8-channel ChucK-degraded processor was premiered at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY. The work was composed in memory of our former colleague Pauline Oliveros.
( NYCEMF 2017)
12.01.2017
"Historical Virtualization: Analog and Digital Concerns in the Recreation, Modeling and Preservation of Contemporary Piano Repertoire" co-written with Chrysi Nanou, was published in Leonardo Music Journal, Issue 27, pp. 27-31, doi: 10.1162/LMJ_a_01004
( MIT Press)
9.14.2016
Carillon was awarded "Best Piece: Americas Regional award" at ICMC 2016 in Utrecht, Netherlands. The work was performed at TivoliVredenburg's Hertz concert hall on Wed. evening, September 14. On that same day, our paper "Gesture-based Collaborative Virtual Reality Performance in Carillon" was presented as a talk.
9.2.2016
108 Troubles for piano and wavefield speaker array was premiered at Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
As an installation, the work ran for two weeks in EMPAC's Studio 1: Goodman Studio/Theater, followed by on September 2, a live performance of the work performed by pianist Chryssie Nanou.
( video )
8.6.2016
alone+easy was performed at CUBEfest, a two-day festival celebrating VA Tech's new multi-channel sound space "The Cube" in the Moss Arts Center.
7.13.2016
At NIME 2016 in Brisbane, Shawn Lawson and I performed a digital version of Owego System Trade Routes using a new PD-based algorave patch.
( video )