William Brent
william at conflations.com
www.williambrent.com
William’s creative work encompasses experimental music performance projects and various
non-musical undertakings, such as the compilation of conflated idioms presented here. He has
earned Bachelor of
Music and Master of Arts degrees in Composition, studying under Peter Hatch, Fred Frith,
Alvin Curran, and Pauline Oliveros. Currently living in the San Diego area with his wife
and two children, he is pursuing a PhD in computer music at the University of California,
San Diego, and studying with Miller Puckette, Shlomo Dubnov, and David Borgo.
His electroacoustic performance projects combine human- robotic- and computer-realized
sound, and are controlled by software written in the
SuperCollider and
Pd programming environments. In
addition to traditional concert-based projects, William is also active in the areas of
remote network music performance, and interactive sound installation. Current research
areas are signal processing techniques for timbre identification, and the disconnect
between gesture and sound in the performance of live computer-based music.
William also works as a recording engineer at UCSD’s Warren Music Studio.
David Cecchetto
david at conflations.com
www.davidcecchetto.net
While foremost a musician, David’s artistic life has spanned a variety of forms and media ranging from performance art to video to the work presented here. David has had his orchestral music performed by the Victoria Symphony, has collaborated in interactive sound installation in St. Petersburg, Russia, has conducted an opera, and has written for contexts ranging from atonal children’s theatre to film music. David is pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Victoria, and currently lives in that city.
· Jonathan Piper: PHP design for the Workshop page, and numerous submissions.
· Ross Karre: Numerous submissions.
· Chelsea Doohan: Numerous submissions and thoughtful comments.