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EDUCATION

 

 
   

Yale University, (1998-2002) New Haven, CT. 
B.A. Music, May 2002. Graduated Cum Laude, Distinction in the Major.

Goldsmiths College, University of London, (2002-2003) London, UK.
MMus Composition, Electro-Acoustic Pathway.

The University of Havana, Cuba in conjunction with The School for International Training. (2001)Studies in Afro-Cuban music, Spanish, and Cuban history.

  TEACHING EXPERIENCE
     

Yale University; (2003-present) Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow.
Individual undergraduate composition lessons (Music 312), and beginning and advanced classes in audio sequencing, MIDI, and interactive programming using Max/MSP/Jitter (Music 295, Music 390).

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center; (2005-present) Engineer, Instructor.
Project-based Engineering and Individual tutorials in Max/MSP/Jitter; Moderator for the monthly NY Max User group.

The New School, Jazz and Contemporary Studies. (2004-present) Instructor.
Individual lessons in audio and MIDI sequencing and live audio processing using Max/MSP/Jitter.

Temple University; (2005) Guest lecturer and technical consultant.
Class in live image processing and motion/color tracking.

Litchfield Performing Arts; (1998-2001) Teaching Assistant.
Summer jazz workshops in theory, ensemble playing, and piano master classes.

  PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE
   

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, (2007-2008) New Zealand International Arts Festival, Programming and live audio processing for the opera by Matthew Suttor.

Don Juan in Prague, (2006) The National Theater, Prague (Oct. 2006); Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, New York (Dec. 2006).  Computer programming and live audio processing for David Chambers’ and Matthew Suttor’s multi-media adaptation of the Mozart Opera Don Giovanni.

A Room of One’s Own, (2007) Maidment theatre, Auckland, New Zealand; The Painted Bride and the Arden Theatres, Philadelphia; Programming and operation of live video for performance artist Coco Fusco.

Continuous City, (2007) Programming and live video processing for workshop with the Builders Association at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Reverse Color Organ, (2005) Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT and Duke University, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Durham, NC.
Original sound design and computer programming for visual artist Ellen Fagan’s interactive installation.

ARTEC Consultants Inc.; (2001) Summer internship in concert hall acoustics design, and research in material acoustic absorption properties.  New York City.

Steinway & Sons; (2004-2005) Technical consultant for the Steinway Artist iTunes music project.
  AWARDS / HONORS
 

 

STEIM, (2007) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Awarded a two-week composer’s residency to work on electroacoustic piano and bass piece.

Sonic Arts Research Centre, (2007) Queens University, Belfast Northern Ireland. 
Performed piece 32_grains as part of the Sonorities Festival.

The Banff Centre, (2006) Alberta, Canada.
Awarded a three-week composer’s residency to record and work on Max/MSP programming.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, (2006) New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Associate Artist-in-Residence with composer William Duckworth at the Atlantic Center for the Arts .

Yale University, (2002) New Haven, CT.
Stanton Wheeler Award For Music.

Acoustical Society of America; (2001) Chicago, Illinois.
Presented the paper “Using your ears to learn about the acoustics of metal tubes,” at the 141st ASA meeting.

Jazz at Lincoln Center; (1998) New York, NY.
Outstanding Soloist Award from Wynton Marsalis. Essentially Ellington Competition.

Berklee College of Music, (1997-1998) Boston, MA.
Outstanding Musicianship Award.

  COMPOSITIONS / INSTALLATIONS
     

piano+bass+ (2007) Piano, Bass, and Live Electronics
Collaborative piece with bassist Sean McClowry using the computer program Meta_Gest.

Thing with No Name, (2007) Piano and Electronics.
Sound design and score for the feature length documentary by filmmaker Sarah Friedland.

32_grains_toypiano, (2007, 2005) Schoenhut toy grand piano and live electronics.
Extensible Toy Piano Project, Clark University, Worcester MA and University of Albany, NY. Invited to perform live electronics with Steven Drury’s Callithumpian Consort and to perform the original composition, 32_grains_toypiano.

32_grains, Feeding_Pitch, Freezing_Pitch, & Combing_beats (2006) Piano and Live Electronics.
live improvisations with computer processing created in real time with the computer program Meta_Gest.

kk_disklavier, (2006) Interactive piece for live audio input and computer generated ‘jazz’ accompaniment on a MIDI acoustic piano.  Disklavier Open Studios, Brooklyn College. 

‘Multi-Channel Sound Installation’, (2004) Eight-channel sound installation mixing pre-composed sound design and real-time audience feedback. Chelsea Art Museum, New York City.

Lost Lake, (2003) Multi-channel electro-acoustic composition premiered at the Stanley Glasser Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Spring Concert, Goldsmiths College,  University of London.

Sustain (2002) & taptaptap (2003) Tape pieces from processed piano sounds.

fragmented_melody, pulse, snapsnap, fifths, pitch_follow, pitch_envelope, tapbang, chords, melodies, & moving_filters. (2002) MIDI grand piano with live audio processing.
Open Day, Stanley Glasser Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Stony Creek (2002) Interactive Sound and Video Installation (collaboration with video artist Gabriel Winer). Premiered at Interfaced Culture - Conference on Interactivity and Globalization in Music, Dance, Theatre, and Video.  Yale University New Haven, CT.