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Peter V. Swendsen explores the capacity of electroacoustic sound and digital media to challenge and extend our engagement with performance. His music has been called "highly skillful" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and "the sonic equivalent of ether" and "marvelous" by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Media at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He spent the 2006-07 academic year on a Fulbright Fellowship at the NoTAM computer music studios in Oslo, Norway, where he worked on a large project based in soundscape composition and ecoacoustics. Swendsen is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia, where he was in residence as a Jefferson Scholars Fellow and Instructor in the McIntire Department of Music from 2002-2006. His dissertation project is a large-scale composition for electroacoustic music, interactive dance, and extended/prepared piano. He received his MFA from the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and his BM from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His music has been heard throughout the United States, much of Europe, and also in South America and Asia in recent years. His work most recently appeared on events in Norway and the UK and is part of a recent CD release called Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century. Swendsen has studied composition with Gary Nelson, Richard Povall, Kristine Burns, Gail Wight, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, and Pauline Oliveros, and more recently with Matthew Burtner and Judith Shatin, creating and performing with electroacoustic music, extended instrumental techniques, interactive environments, dance, installation, and video. He also serves as Assistant Editor for Journal SEAMUS. Swendsen is the co-artistic director of Prospect Dance Group and works extensively in collaboration with choreographers.