About

I make sound interactive, and often musical. My work explores new ways to interact with sound by building digital musical instruments and musical robots — installations where the line between audience and performer disappears, and anyone who walks up can play.

I came to this sideways: electrical engineering at CU Boulder, seven years with chip maker Xilinx (now AMD), then a master's in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford's CCRMA, and a PhD at CU's ATLAS Institute, researching my own scaffolded design tools for interactive music.

My interest in sound and how related technologies can enable music and make us feel all the things that music makes us feel has been with me since at least high school. The engineering side of me has always been motivated by sound (I went with electrical engineering thinking I would build guitar amps). That's more or less still the goal — tweaking how we relate to sound, and how we interact with and shape it.

Teaching

I teach and develop courses at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute and its Department of Critical Media Practices (CMDI), and at Inworks (CU Denver). These span Sound and Music Tehnology, Creative Technology, Physical Computing, Internet of Things, Digital Fabrication, and Human-Centered Design - plus workshops for makers from middle school through adult. Hands-on, learn-by-doing

B.E.A.T.

In 2019 I founded Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology, (B.E.A.T.) a community for people working at the intersection of art, technology, and science. We meet, share what we are building, hold workshops, and occasionally put on a show.

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