Selected Papers and Presentations
Efficient Simultaneous Multi-Scale Computation of FFTs. Technical report GT-FODAVA-09-01.
Adaptation of Tandem HMMs for Non-Speech Audio Event Detection.
Spring Meeting of the ASA (NSF 08-03219 and 08-07329).
Visualizing Audio for Anomaly Detection. (One-page summary.)
NSF FODAVA awarded 3-year grant.
Myriad: scalable VR via peer-to-peer connectivity, PC clustering, and transient inconsistency.
Comp. Anim. Virtual Worlds, v.18, 1-17.
Application framework for
Electronic imaging, the visual arts and beyond (EVA), London.
Myriad: scalable VR via peer-to-peer connectivity, PC clustering, and transient inconsistency.
Proc. VR Software and Technology, 68-77, Monterey.
Video Stereoscopic Avatars for the CAVE Virtual Environments.
IEEE/ACM Intl. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Arlington, VA.
Synchronous data collection from diverse hardware.
Driving Simulation Conference - Europe, Paris.
AVICAR: audio-visual speech corpus in a car environment.
Intl. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, Korea.
Open-loop dereverberation of multichannel room impulse responses.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 4, 2202-2203.
Syzygy: native PC cluster VR.
Proc. IEEE VR, 15-22.
Open-loop multi-channel inversion of room impulse response.
Cover photograph.
Chem. Commun. 11, Royal Soc. of Chemistry, London.
ALICE on the eightfold way: exploring curved spaces in an enclosed virtual reality theater.
In Visualization and Mathematics III, H.-C. Hege and K. Polthier, eds., Springer, 307-317. (Proc. Vismath 2002, Berlin.)
Rarae Aves, composition for two-channel tape.
Acoustic Frontiers broadcasts, CKCU-FM Ottawa;
SEAMUS/EAMM concert, Concordia U., Montreal.
Interpolated mappings for musical instruments.
Organised Sound 7(2):85-96, © Cambridge U. Press.
Audio design for interactive systems.
Imaging Technology Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC.
Composing outdoor augmented-reality sound environments.
Proc. ICMC, Havana.
Composing with parameters for synthetic instruments.
Doctoral dissertation, UIUC.
Resonant processing of instrumental sound controlled by spatial position.
New Instruments and Musical Expression workshop, SIGCHI, Seattle.
The Eviolin: motion capture for musical instruments.
Invited presentation, Microsoft Research.
Coney Island: combining jMax, Spat and VSS for acoustic integration of spatial and temporal models in a virtual reality installation.
Proc. ICMC, Berlin.
A Violin Controller for Real-Time Audio Synthesis.
Technical Report, Integrated Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999, revised 2004.
System and method for interfacing a 2D or 3D movement space to a high dimensional sound synthesis control space.
U.S. Patent #6009394.
Performance factors in control of high-dimensional spaces.
Proc. ICMC, Beijing.
Review of ICMC 1998.
Computer Music Journal 23 (2).
Soundtrack for the film The Optiverse by G. Francis, S. Levy, J. Sullivan.
SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, Los Angeles;
International Congress of Mathematicians VideoMath Festival, Berlin.
A real-time audio scheduler for pentium PCs.
Proc. ICMC, Ann Arbor.
Multiparametric control of a dynamical system ("If it shines and moves...")
Supercomputing, Orlando.
Mapping data and audio using an event-driven audio server for personal computers.
International Conference on Auditory Display, Palo Alto.
Audio software for SuperVROOM CAVE / Immersadesk / InfinityWall VR environments.
Supercomputing, San Diego.
A Manifold Interface For a High Dimensional Control Space.
Proc. ICMC, Banff, pp. 385-392.
Model-based interactive sound for an immersive virtual environment.
Proc. ICMC, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 471-474.
Investigation of timbre using spectral matching, modelling, and interpolation.
Proc. 1992 Intl. Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Tokyo, pp. 51-54.
Education and Employment
Lab manager, software designer, mad scientist, page one poster child.
Software designer, Audio Development Group and Visualization and Virtual Environments Group.
D.M.A., music composition, minor in computer science, 2001.
M.Mus., piano performance and literature, 1993.
Computer Music Project sysadmin, 1991-93.
Software Design Engineer for PC Word and Winword, 1989-91.
B.Math., double major pure mathematics and computer science, 1989.
Lived at Conrad Grebel College.