Research Publications

“Musique Concrète Choir: An Interactive Performance Environment for Any Number of People” (co-authored with William Walker, PhD, Mozilla Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2016 Web Audio Conference (Atlanta, GA, April 4-6, 2016). Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA.

“Birds of a Feather (Les Oiseaux de Même Plumage): Dynamic Soundscapes using Real-time Manipulation of Locally Relevant Birdsongs” (co-authored with William Walker, PhD, Mozilla Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2015 Web Audio Conference (Paris, France, January 26-28, 2015). IRCAM, Paris.

“System of Shadows, an interactive performance environment for trumpet/flugelhorn and Kyma” (co-authored with Stephen Ruppenthal, composer, Senior Director, SONY Corporation). In Proceedings of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference (New York, NY), International Computer Music Association, 2010, pp. 34-40.

“Theoretical and formal continuity in James Tenney’s music.”

Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, Routledge (London), February 2008, pp. 23-45.

“Live performance interaction for humans and machines in the early twenty-first century: one composer's aesthetics for composition and performance practice.”

Organised Sound, Vol. 8, No. 3, Cambridge University Press, December 2003, pp. 305-312.

“Compositional and programming issues Within Lyra, a fully interactive performance environment for violin and Kyma.” In Proceedings of the 2003 International Computer Music Conference (Singapore), International Computer Music Association, September 2003,
pp. 91-94.

“Applying Improvisation Builder to Interactive Composition with MIDI Piano” (co-authored with William Walker, Ph.D., Apple Computer/Xerox PARC). In Proceedings of the 1996 International Computer Music Conference (Hong Kong), International Computer Music Association, 1996, pp. 386-89.

“Things You Need to Think About Before You Write Your Next Tape Piece: Discussion in the Style of a Medieval Dialog Between Two Contemporary Composers” (co-authored with Jim McManus, DMA, Ohlone College).

Journal SEAMUS, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Vol. 11, No. 2, November 1996, pp. 4-7.

“Toward a unification of algorithmic composition, real-time software synthesis, and live performance interaction.” In Proceedings of the 1992 International Computer Music Conference (San Jose, CA), International Computer Music Association, 1992, pp. 158-161.

“Proportional recursive stochastic composition using COMP2, a Smalltalk-80 composition program within the Kyma digital synthesis system.” In Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference (Montreal, Canada), International Computer Music Association, 1991, pp. 513-516.

An examination of the theories and compositions of James Tenney, 1982-1985. DMA Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990. 

“An Interview with James Tenney.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, Winter-Summer 1987, pp. 459-466.