I am a research assistant and second year masters student at the MIT Media Lab, in the "Opera of the Future" group. My main interests are computer aided composition, music cognition and physical sound synthesis.
My background includes freelance musicianship, digital signal processing engineering, robotics, education and prototyping. To view some of my previous work check out my portfolio site.
SoundStrand is a music composition toy. It comprises a set of building blocks, each containing a musical motif. The blocks can be connected to each other to create a musical theme. They can also be manipulated with three degrees of freedom: elongation changes the rhythmic distribution of the notes; bending changes the direction of the melody; and twisting changes the harmonic context.
Coda is a prototype for a web-based musical software interface that facilitates the identification and sharing of knowledge related to music theory. Coda is meant to serve as the center for a community of learners sharing theoretical knowledge, musical ideas and musical compositions by decentralizing the knowledge and blurring the boundary between personal creation and general music theory.
Coda was concieved in collaboration with Stephan Bresnick as the final project for the class "Technologies for Creative Leraning". The accompanying final paper is available here.
"Chroma District", an installation constructed in collaboration with Akito Van-Troyer, was commissioned by MIT for FAST - the Festival of Arts, Science and Technology, as a part of MIT 150th anniversery celebrations.
Visit Chroma District at the FAST website.
"Cicadence", an installation built in collaboration with Catherine Winfield, is an interactive soundscape. Created through a bio-mimetic process it examines and is inspired by the auditory experience produced by a cicada.
The installation was conceived as the final project for the class "Crafted by Nature", and was presented at Figment Boston 2011.
Additional information and pictures can be found in Catherine's website.
(photo : David Lakatos)
μStick is a tribal instruments turned digital. It is a simple stick to which sensors are attached. They detect thomping of the stick against the ground and tapping on the stick. The angle in which the stick is held is also measured. These signals are tranformed into MIDI signals and turn μStick into a simple yet powerful music controller.
μStick was conceived as the final project for the class "Sensor Technologies for Interactive Environments". The final paper is available here.
Automatic Drum Samples Classification was the subject of my final project for the class "Pattern Recogintion".
In this project I explore different techniques to automatically classify drum sound samples and determine which class of percussive sounds they belong to.
The final paper can be found here.
Some web programming experiments can be found here.
