c.v. : education
education : teaching : expertise : recognition : professional service
performances : publications/presentations : reviews : commissions : etc.
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  • NoTAM Computer Music Studios, Oslo, Norway (2006-2007)
    • Fulbright Fellow
    • Large-scale soundscape/ecoacoustic fieldwork and compositions; dissertation work

  • University of Virginia (2002-2006)
    • Jefferson Scholars Graduate Fellow (ABD) in Composition and Computer Technologies
    • PhD expected summer 2007; Matthew Burtner (primary), Judith Shatin, & Ted Coffey, advisors
    • Dissertation: Amplified Whispers and the Artifice of Inaction: for Electroacoustic Music, Digital Media, Interactive Dance, and prepared piano
    • Coursework in composition, electronic and computer music, performance interface design, interactive media, physical modeling synthesis & signal processing, and critical/theoretical analysis of contemporary music
    • Large-scale projects in hardware and video-based movement tracking/analysis, multi-channel audio, composing for prepared/extended instruments

  • Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (1999-2001)
    • Master of Fine Arts Degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media (1/02)
    • Teachers included Maggi Payne, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Gail Wight, and Chris Brown
    • Coursework in composition, electronic and computer music, performance technology, video, interactive mediacontemporary art, and dance
    • Strong academic record: 4.00 grade point average

  • Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (1995-1999)
    • Bachelor of Music Degree in Technology in Music and Related Arts (TIMARA)
    • Extensive coursework in composition, music technology, music theory & history, 20th century music, ethnomusicology, installation, video art, and interactive authoring
    • Strong academic record: 3.84 grade point average

  • Troika Ranch live-i Summer Workshop (2001)
  • Honesdale High School (PA): Valedictorian, Class of 1995

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