Current Activities 2021-2022

May: Naomi Fitter, Brian Zhang (OSU Robotics) and I have been accepted to lead a workshop at ICRA titled,

“Sound for Robots: Understanding and harnessing sound for robotic systems“ on May 22. See our call for proposals

here: https://sites.google.com/oregonstate.edu/soundforrobots2022/

March: My recent sonification-based composition, Murky Waters is on exhibit as an installation at the Little Gallery in

Corvallis from March 8-April 8 2022. An shortened version (~5 mins) was recently performed as part of Diffusions at OSU

on March 9.

February: Five of my undergraduate student researchers were awarded funding to work on a Social Justice Sonification

Project from Feb-June.

It is great to be recording live concerts again! I got my first multi-gig contract since the pandemic from Chamber Music

Corvallis to record concerts in Feb, March, April, and May. First up, Fandango! on February 18.

January: My colleague Chris Bulgren were recently accepted to present our paper, “Bedroom Recording: a Study of Collaborative Recording Among Music Technology and Music Educator Majors” at the College Music Society NW

Regional Conference at Portland State University April 22-3, 2022.

December: My colleague Aaron Barnhart and I reviewed Soundcheck 2D for College Music Symposium. See it HERE

September: My colleague Chris Bulgren and I just published “Developing 21st-Century Musicianship: Tablet-based Music Production in the General Music Classroom” in General Music Today. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10483713211034434

I am currently working on a creative research project sonifiying environmental data impacting salmon in Klamath River,

Northern California. This research was recently presented at the 8th Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Sea Research in

Haifa, Israel in July. See my video demonstration here.

August: I recorded four concerts for Chintimini Chamber Music Festival at Tyee Wine Cellars in Corvallis, Oregon

August 1, 2, 6 and 7.

July: Our fourth annual OSU Music Technology and Production for grades 7-12 was held July 12-16. Find out more

information here.

June: A collaborative study on transformative sound with colleagues and students in robotics and music technology was

presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China, May 30-June 5 2021.

May: junktures was presented at NoiseFloor- Shaffordshire University, Shaffordshire, United Kingdom on 5/12/21.

junktures was presented at College Music Society PNW Regional Virtual Conference on 5/8/21.

April: junktures was featured as part of NACUSA Sounds New Concert Tour with performances in Mount Rushmore,

Keystone, SD on 4/2/21 and Sheltered Acres in Sheridan, WY on 4/1/21.

March: Check out our WN21 Diffusions concert here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8yJ4p02ES4

junktures was featured as part of NACUSA Sounds New Concert Tour at Watson Mill Bridge State Park in

Comer, GA, 3/6/21

February: junktures was featured as part of Soundbox 4 at Oregon State University on 2/25/21.

January: I was recently elected to serve a second term as President of the College Music Society NorthWest Chapter.

December: Check out OSU Music Technology and Production’s FA20 Diffusions concert here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLugAKIPoE

November: junktures was featured as part of Sonic Murals in Denton, Texas on 11/7/20.

October: My article, “Integrating Music Technology and Production into K-12 Music Classrooms.” was just published in the

Oregon Music Educator, 72 (1), 26-31 (2020). Here is the link: https://www.oregonmusic.org/files/Journal/Fall2020-Journal-smallFile.pdf

junktures was featured during the College Music Society National Conference on 10/25/20.

I was a featured clinician during the Green River Music Education Association In-Service Day on October 9, 2020.

My workshop was titled, “Music Production in the Secondary Classroom.”

September: I am thrilled to announce that my colleagues Meg Schedel, Brandon Vaccaro and I will be guesting editing

a special issue of Organised Sound devoted to Commercial Music and the Electronic Music Studio. See the call for our

edition here.

My article, “Reassessing Assessment: Skills Exams in Media Production Education was published in Journal of Media

Education. Here is the direct link: https://en.calameo.com/journal-of-media-education/read/0000917891144d87b4c6d

August: junktures was featured on Acoustic Frontiers CKCU-FM 93.1 in Ottawa on 7/27/20 and Rummage Radio-

WQRT 99.1 in Indianapolis on 7/23/20.

July: I will be leading a clinic on Music Technology and Production for K-12 music teachers July 27-Aug 7. Find out more

information here.

I was recently awarded a Pernot Research Grant to work on sonification of fish data for the Microbiology department at OSU.

June: Check out the OSU Music Technology and Production Program’s Spring 2020 remote concert, Diffusions 9 here.

I’m The Expert has been selected for performance at New York City Electroacoustic Festival on June 26, 2020 (conference moved online due to COVID-19).

junktures has been selected for performance at the International Computer Music Conference in Santiago, Chile

(Rescheduled for 2021 due to COVID-19).

May: junktures has been selected for performance at the College Music Society National Conference in Miami, Florida

in October.

I was awarded a Learning Innovation Grant by Oregon State University to build an immersive multi-channel audio system

at OSU.

April: My paper, “History Now: The Production Student in the Music History Classroom” has been selected for

presentation at AES Audio Education conference in at Middle Tennessee State University (rescheduled for July 2021

due to COVID-19).

March: junktures has been selected for performance at the College Music Society Pacific Northwest Chapter at Cornish

College in Seattle on March 28.

junktures has been selected for performance at the Society of Electro Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

annual conference at the University of Virginia on March 12.

January 2020: junktures has been selected to appear on Electroacoustic and Beyond 5 (RMN Classical) on June 3, 2020.

I was recently elected Secretary of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction for a two-year term,

and will take office in January.

December 2019: Oregon State University recently published an article titled, “Experiential Learning with the Pros” about

a recent series of workshops ADAM Audio and Portland-based studio owners conducted at our Corvallis campus. ADAM produced a series of videos while in residency for their ADAMEdu series, which have been viewed over 150,000 times

as of June 2020.

junktures has been selected for performance at the 15th Annual International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology Conference (WOCMAT 2019) in Hsinchu City, Taiwan on December 14.

Check out our upcoming new music concert Diffusions at OSU on December 2, featuring my new work, junktures!

November 2019: Recording a full length CD project with the Arioso Chamber Players.

October 2019: I’m The Expert has been selected for performance at the College Music Society National Conference in

Louisville on 10/25/19.

September 2019: My live concert recordings of the Neave Trio and American Chamber Players have recently aired on

All Classical Portland and other national affiliate commercial classical radio stations

August 2019: I was recently awarded a Career Opportunity Grant by the Oregon Arts Commission.

March 2019: I’m The Expert is accepted for performance at College Music Society Pacific Northwest Regional Conference

in Ellensburg, Washington on 3/30/19.

Our studio at Oregon State has been profiled by Audient Corporation on their website. Check it out here:

https://audient.com/2019/02/25/oregon-state/

I’m The Expert was performed at MoxSonic at Central Missouri University on 3/8/19.

I’m The Expert was performed at 30th Annual Festival of Contemporary Art Music at Washington State

University on 3/1/19.

February 2019: I have been recent engaged in a collaborative project interpreting big data from building information

systems. Our project, including my sonification is discussed in “Cross-reality environments in smart buildings to

advance STEM cyberlearning,” which was recently published by International Journal on Interactive Design and

Manufacturing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-019-00546-x

January 2019: I’m The Expert was performed at 18th Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University

on 1/31/19.

December 2018: Silhouettes was performed at Diffusions at Oregon State University.

November 2018: I’m The Expert was performed during Arts Now Presents: A and B and C at North Carolina State

University on 11/15/18.

I’m The Expert was performed during ElectroAcoustic Barndance 2018 at Jacksonville University. I was also invited to

participate in a panel discussion entitled, “Teaching Music Technology in Diverse Interdisciplinary Classrooms” at the

conference.

October 2018: My interactive computer music was featured as part of The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Corvallis, Oregon

I presented my paper, “Reassessing Assessment: Considering the Value of Skills Exams in Music Production

Education” at the Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia

on October 12, 2018.

September 2018: My recording of an interview with artist Joan Truckenbrod is a featured component of the exhibit,

Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in

New York City.

June 2018: Ceratonova Shasta will be performed as an installation during the International Conference for Auditory

Display (ICAD) at Michigan Technical University from June 10-15.

May 2018: I’m The Expert will premiere as part of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and

Climate Change on May 14.

April 2018: I served as a paper chair for two sessions at the College Music Society PNW Regional Conference at

Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

March 2018: My Paper, “Reassessing Assessment: Considering the Value of Skills Exams in University Music Production

Education,” has been selected for presentation at the Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 12, 2018.

February 2018: Ceratonova Shasta has been selected for performance at the New York City Electroacoustic

Music Festival (NYCEMF) in July.

January 2018: I will give a presentation entitled, “Concert Recording 101: Introduction to Equipment and Techniques for

the Music Director” at the Oregon Music Educators Association Conference in Eugene, Oregon on January 18, 2018.

December 2017: My Paper, “Why Study Music Production at a University?: The Benefits of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Student Learning and Career Preparation,” will be presented at the 12th Art of Record Production Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

November 2017: Our new tri-annual concert series, Diffusions will premiere on Nov 27th in Benton Hall at 8pm.

Diffusions is a concert series featuring new music by students and faculty in Music Technology and Production at OSU.

October 2017: “Electronic Music History through Guided Discovery: An Active Learning Approach to

Engage the Millennial Student,” has been published online in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 5.

May 2017: My Presentation, “Low Stakes Reflective Writing in the Music Production Curriculum” has been accepted to

be read at the 143rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in New York in October.

April 2017: I served as a paper chair for the music theory session during the College of Music Pacific NorthWest Regional Conference at Capilano University in Vancouver.

March 2017: I was recently awarded a Learning Innovation Grant (LIG) from Oregon State University for 100K to build a recording studio in Snell Hall.

February 2017: My piece, Kerosene is a finalist for the composition award at the Electrobrass conference in Cookeville, Tennessee in April.

December 2016: My paper entitled “Pop Rocks, Blips, and Beats: Guiding Students Through a Comprehensive History of Electronic Music” has been selected for presentation at the College of Music Pacific NorthWest Regional Conference in

April 2017.

June 2016: I am excited to announce that I have accepted the position of Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music

Technology at Oregon State University. I look forward to begin the next chapter of my career at OSU in the Fall of 2016.

March 2016: My paper entitled “Pop Rocks, Blips, and Beats: Guiding Students Through a Comprehensive History of

Electronic Music” has been selected for presentation at the national conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction in Santa Fe, New Mexico in Late October.

January 2016: My paper entitled “Pop Rocks, Blips, and Beats: Guiding Students Through a Comprehensive History of Electronic Music” has been selected for presentation at the national conference of the Association for Popular Music

Education at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in June

December 2015: TransFantasies will be performed at SEAMUS 2016 at Georgia Southern University in February

November 2015: I presented a modified version of my paper “From Creativity to Science and Back Again:

Supporting Audio Students Though Active Teaching Approaches” at the 28th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular

and American Cultural Association in Philadelphia on November 5.

October 2015: My paper entitled “From Creativity to Science and Back Again: Supporting Audio Students Though Active

Teaching Approaches” was presented at the 139th Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York

on October 28.

September 2015: TransFantasies was performed at the International Computer Music Conference on September 26

August 2015: My paper entitled “Strategies for Removing Fear from Audio Science and Production Math” was presented

at the Audio Engineering Society International Conference at Glasgow University in Scotland on August 28.

July 2015: Teaching a new course on the history of electronic music at the Art Institute.

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