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speculative music theory
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notation/transcription models for non-western idiomatic musical traditions
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spatial audio
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procedural/generative music
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just intonation
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non-metric temporality
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acoustic ecology
Current Project
Working with professor Dard Neuman on the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform (IDTP), a web-based application that allows for the digital transcription, archiving, sharing, and analysis of audio recordings of oral melodic and improvisation traditions, with a first focus on Hindustani music.
Dunn, David, et al. "Recording Meta-Soundscapes: Synchronized multi-frame audio field-recording at a large spatial scale." (2020).
Teaching Experience
Music 80C - History and Literature of Electronic Music
Music 167 - Electronic Music Workshop
Music 125 - Advanced Electronic Sound Synthesis
Selected Workshops / Talks / Performances
Presentation and workshop on the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, October 2023
Workshop on the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform at the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Boston, May 2023
Sound Mapping Presentation and Workshop, Yale University, October 2019
Presentation on recent compositions and performance of Articulation (2017) at Ostrava Days festival, Ostrava, Czech republic, August, 2019
Performance of Daniel in Chicago (2017), S.E.M. Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY, February 2019
UCSC Arts Dean’s fund for Excellence Fellowship, to attend Ostrava Days Institute and Festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic. (2019)
Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Fellowship, Special Collections, UC Santa Cruz Library (2017)
Regents Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz (2016-17)
Orkest de Ereprijs: Young Composers Meeting Finalist for Flocking (2015), Apeldoorn, Netherlands (2015)
Gwen Livingston Pokora Prize, Wesleyan University: awarded to the outstanding undergraduate in music composition (2011)