Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
I'm a specialist in music technology, intelligent systems, and human-computer interaction from Canberra, Australia. I create new technologies that extend and augment creative interactions, I teach people about computing from a creative perspective, and I perform as a musician on percussion and computer.
I'm a computer scientist specialising in music technology, musical AI and human-computer interaction at The Australian National University, Canberra. I develop musical apps such as MicroJam, and PhaseRings,research creative AI, and perform music with Ensemble Metatone and Andromeda is Coming. At the ANU, I lead research into intelligent musical instruments. My lab's focus is on developing new intelligent instruments, performing new music with them, and bringing them to a broad audience of musicians and performers.
Responsible for teaching large computer science classes and researching creative intelligent computer systems. Pursuing new innovations in teaching to engage large audiences of online students.
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Informatics. Conducting research and supervising graduate students in musical artificial intelligence, smartphone music performance and music technology.
Delivered tutorials in computer science (C programming, computer systems, Android programming, creative computing) and casual lectures in computer music and music technology (sound programming in Processing, musical performance with apps, music for video games). Directed workshops in hardware prototyping for music (Arduino, hardware hacking), and building DIY synthesisers,
I co-founded the percussion group Ensemble Evolution along with Maria Finkelmeier and Jacob Remington while living in Piteå, Sweden. We composed and premiered a number of new percussion works and performed concerts including new commissions, our own works, and improvisation. We directed a percussion festival in Piteå and performed a number of tours in Sweden as well as concerts in Lithuania, Australia, and the USA.
Last Man to Die are a cross-artform group based in Canberra, Australia. Their charter is to create new connections between three art forms: acting, percussion, and drawing through new interactive technologies and experimental performance. The group formed in 2008 after a collaboration with Canberra's Hunting Season produced "Cognition" in Canberra and Melbourne. Since then, the group has created two major cross-artform works using an iterative process of experimental performances to prototype each aspect of the productions. "Vital LMTD" was produced as part of The Street Theatre's Made in Canberra season and was also performed at the inaugural Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle in 2009. Throughout 2010 and 2011 the group toured "The Last Man To Die", a one-hour interactive work that explores possible consequences of artificially extending human lifespans. "The Last Man to Die" was performed in Canberra at the Street Theatre for National Science Week, in Brisbane as part of the Brisbane Festival's Under the Radar programme, in Perth as part of the Blue Room Theatre's curated programme and at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists in Sydney as a Space Program Residency.