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Composer, designer, technologist and educator

2024

In and Out of Phase

Composer and system designer

An improvised work exploring systems composition through feedback and live processing with a contrabass and two transducers. The performers dynamically expand and limit the scope of each other’s sonic palette by modifying their output and feeding it back into the sound producing system. The piece has been presented at EMPAC Reembodied Sound 2024, Rensselaer and NIME 2024, Utrecht. Performed by James Ilgenfritz and Teerath Majumder.

Lines that Divide, Lines that Connect

Composer

A piece for open instrumentation where performers read from a procedurally generated graphic score. Premiered by Anirudh Bhat and Theo Nabicht at Sonic Borderlines 2024: Swara, Berlin.

stereo_nature_prototype_2.1

Composer and software designer

A humorous provocation to reflect on the fetishization and commodification of nature through a work of sound art that procedurally synthesizes nature sounds. Presented at ICMC 2024, Seoul.

2023

A Shot in the Dark

Composer and sound designer

A theatrical immersive multimedia piece written by Qianru Li critically examining Asian- American identity through a personal and intellectual engagement with the killing of Akai Gurley in 2014 and the racially motivated tensions that ensued.

2022

Space Within

Producer, composer, and sound, interface and software designer

A concert of interactive music challenging and reshaping conventional roles in a concert setting; audience members interact with ‘interactive objects’ that guide the actions of featured performers and shape sonic timbres through live processing. Performed by JoVia Armstrong, Matthew Nelson, Prawit Siriwat, Teerath Majumder, and audience members.

Underwater

Composer and producer

A fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement exploring polyrhythmic texture formation in sync with movement parts, and game-like narrative development. Choreography by Kelly McGill.

2021

Mouno Shonchar

Producer, arranger, programmer, and recordist

An album of interpretations of traditional Bangla songs exploring cross-cultural approaches in recontextualizing their text and using creative sound design as a mode of word-painting. Performed by Jiryis Ballan, Sabrin Kriti, and Niloufar Shiri.

Mothership Calling

Software and sound designer

An immersive sound installation conceptualized by Nicole Mitchell exploring Black Joy through an Afrofuturist lens. Exhibited in the Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.

Repeat After Me

Composer and producer

A piece exploring electronic dance music in the context of contemporary movement.

2020

Crossroads

Composer and software designer

A piece commissioned by the bass clarinet-marimba duo Transient Canvas exploring electronic cross-modulation. Performed by Transient Canvas.

Confluence

Composer and software designer

A piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and electronics exploring electronic cross-modulation. Performed by Hub New Music.

Panchil Topke

Composer, producer, and programmer

A project with Bangladeshi artist Taraga exploring modes of collaboration through electronic manipulation of each other's sound materials. Performed by Taraga and Teerath Majumder.

2019

Intonation

Composer, and software and sound designer

A system of virtual instruments designed and tuned to the body and movement of a dancer to allow them to initiate and affect sonic events using Mugic® sensor along with a musician.

Walk Through Eden

Composer, producer, and software designer

A generative piece investigating degeneration and the perception of distance in both space and time.

2017

GB

Composer

A piece of guided improvisation for double bass and electronics. Performed by Sebastian Gramss and Teerath Majumder.

Striae

Composer and producer

Fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement. An attempt to draw contours consisting of straight lines through sound and movement. Choreography by Himangini Puri.

Glitter and Be Lit

Composer and producer

Original score for an experimental short film written and directed by Charlotte van de Graaff examining the aesthetics and politics of makeup tutorial videos.

2016

Entropy and the Absurdity of the Universe

Composer and producer

Fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement examining perception of time through linear and non-linear arrangement of recorded events passed through electronic effects-processing. Choreography by Himangini Puri.

Syllabi

Spatial Audio

An overview of the scientific concepts underlying contemporary audio tools used for spatialization and artificial acoustics, and artistic approaches to using such tools.
 

Sound for Media and Performance Arts

An introduction to sound design covering aesthetic considerations, techniques, and workflow in various industries such as film, TV, theatre, and interactive media.
 

Digital Audio Effects Programming

An in-depth exploration of the realtime digital audio processes underlying most common types of audio effects, and how to program these effects using a visual programming language.
 

Art of Code

An introduction to problem-solving and algorithmic development with Python programming.
 

Advanced Practicum in Sound Art

A capstone course for advanced audio practitioners to develop major projects with the instructor's supervision and peer critique. Lectures cover historical, technical, and aesthetic perspectives on sound art.
 

Space as Instrument

An exploration of the technical, aesthetic, social and political roles of space in various fields of sonic arts and daily life through spatial creativity.
 

DAW Production Techniques and Applications

An exhaustive study of the functionalities of digital audio workstations along with projects that introduce students to their usage in music, media, and performance production.
 

Music Production and Sound Design

A comprehensive introduction to DAW-based audio production focusing on content creation, digital processing and workflow.
 

Music, Mathematics and Programming

An introduction to musical applications of computer programming through concepts at the intersection of music and mathematics.
 

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