Associate Professor of Music Composition, School of Music
Visiting Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Co-Leader of the Seedbed Initiative for Transdomain Creativity
Associate Director of the Cultural Computing Program at the Siebel Center for Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignInterests include composition, interactive computer performance, music theory, analysis, aesthetics, and their confluences.
Current projects include a Cyber Opera, The Death of Virgil. This incorporates singers and instrumentalists along with technology in a meditation on life, art, and love based on the novel by Hermann Broch.
Recent and ongoing work also includes seminars and papers-in-progress on the music and musical thought of Stefan Wolpe. In addition to technologically extended or augmented instrumental performance, I often write for conventional instruments and ensembles. My works in this medium have been performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Among my most recently completed works are Partita for solo violin, a piece for saxophone and ensemble, called Piece 21, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation and Ensemble 21, and a work for bass recorder and electronics, entitled Lyric Spaces, commissioned by the ERTA Congress in Vienna and premiered in that city and in Berlin, Germany.
My interest in aesthetics resulted in my Guest Editing an issue of the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) that is devoted to the aesthetics of computer music. This includes my own article on the aesthetics of interactive electronics as well as an international selection of current writing in the field.