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  • David Aguila

    David Aguila

    Email: daguila@ucsd.edu (he, him, his)

    M.F.A. Performer/Composer, California Institute of the Arts

    B.M. in Performance, Eastman School of Music

    Emphasis: Performance, Trumpet

    David Aguila is a performer and composer currently based in San Diego, California where he's pursuing a Doctorate in Music in Trumpet Performance from the University of California San Diego. Aguila’s multifaceted practice focuses on the intersection of trumpet, electronics and music production; working in the fields of contemporary, experimental, electro-acoustic and improvised music. His current research is focused on parametric and gestural notation and performance, sound projection practices and alternative approaches to trumpet pedagogy.
  • Lilac Atassi

    Lilac Atassi

    Email: latassi@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Landon Bain

    Landon Bain

    Email: lbain@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Tyler J. Borden

    Tyler J. Borden

    Email: tborden@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Cello

  • Joseph Bourdeau

    Joseph Bourdeau

    Email: jbourdea@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Matthew Chung

    Matthew Chung

    Email: mfchung@ucsd.edu

    B.M. in Music Composition, University of Maryland, College Park

    B.S. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

    Emphasis: Computer Music

    Aesthetics, Teleology, Complex Systems, Computational Philosophy

  • Daniel Corral

    Daniel Corral

    Email: dcorral@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Stephen de Filippo

    Stephen de Filippo

    Email: sdefilip@ucsd.edu

    M.A. Music Composition, University of California, San Diego

    B.A. Music Studies and Anthropology, University of Western Australia

    Emphasis: Composition

    My focus is on music composition, specifically centering around experimental performance practice, considerations of place, and Australian vernacular culture. I work in both acoustic and electro-acoustic art music contexts, exploring the intersection of art music, media and experimental practice. Often, I use field recordings in these works. I am also a vocalist, with a preference for performing with a megaphone.

  • Teresa Diaz de Cossio

    Teresa Diaz de Cossio

    Email: tdiazdec@ucsd.edu

    M.M. State University of New York 

    B.M. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

    Emphasis: Performance, Flute 

    Flute–performance and research

    Website

  • Rose Dwyer

    Rose Dwyer

    Email: rsdwyer@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Mariana Flores

    Mariana Flores

    Email: maf004@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Voice

  • Juliana Gaona Villamizar

    Juliana Gaona Villamizar

    Email: jgaonavi@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance

  • Erin Graham

    Erin Graham

    Email: egraham@ucsd.edu (they, them)

    M.M. in Composition, Rice University

    Emphasis: Composition

    My research centers around forms of distortion and unconventional narratives, focusing particularly on grotesque exaggeration and dark existential humor primarily within the work of Györgi Ligeti and Unsuk Chin. I also am interested in researching genres ranging from the Los Angeles Beat Scene and its history and founders to post-punk, gothic rock, and darkwave.

     

  • Madison Greenstone

    Madison Greenstone

    Email: mkgreens@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Clarinet

  • Nathaniel Haering

    Nathaniel Haering

    Email: nhaering@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Matthew Henson

    Matthew Henson

    Email: mhenson@ucsd.edu

    M.A. in Music, University of California San Diego 

    B.M. in Double Bass Performance, New England Conservatory 

    Emphasis: Performance, Bass

     Classical and Contemporary Double Bass playing, Conducting, and Music Theory

  • Myra Hinrichs

    Myra Hinrichs

    Email: mhinrich@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Violin

  • Jeremy Hyrkas

    Jeremy Hyrkas

    Email: jhyrkas@ucsd.edu 

    M.M. Music Technology, New York University

    M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

    B.S. Computer Science, Colorado State University

    Emphasis: Computer Music 

    I am a music researcher focused on perceptually-inspired signal processing and sound synthesis techniques. Currently, I am working on modifying perceptual attributes of sound mixtures in the context of concatenative synthesis and audio mixing. My broader research interests include corpus-based synthesis algorithms, computer music systems and the perception of spatial audio techniques in both musical and non-musical contexts.

    Website

  • Sasha Ishov

    Sasha Ishov

    Email: aishov@ucsd.edu (he, him, his)

    B.M. Flute Performance, Eastman School of Music 

    Emphasis: Performance, Flute

    My performance practice is grounded in two major axes: the co-creation of new acoustic and electroacoustic works, and the showcasing of existing repertoire that challenges perceptions of the historical canon. As a researcher, I explore the intersection between interface design, pedagogy, and electronics. I write about models for performer-composer interaction, the impact of microphone placement on the perception of flute technique, and the use of interactive technology to create more dynamic music theory classrooms.

  • Michael Jones

    Michael Jones

    Email: m1jones@ucsd.edu (he, they)

    B.M. University of Hartford, The Hartt School

    Emphasis: Performance, Percussion

    Percussion, contemporary music, modernism, critical/feminist/queer phenomenology, speculative realism

     

  • Nasim Khorassani

    Nasim Khorassani

    Email: nkhorass@ucsd.edu (she, her, hers)

    M.M. in Composition, Cleveland State University

    Emphasis: Composition

    My music explores multi-sensory perception in connection with space, energy, timbre, and visuality, as well as elements from Iranian heritage like music, poetry, and Persian language.

     

  • Zachary Konick

    Zachary Konick

    Email: zkonick@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Rebecca Lloyd-Jones

    Rebecca Lloyd-Jones

    Email: rlloydjo@ucsd.edu (she, her)

    M.M. Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

    B.M. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Conservatorium

    Emphasis: Performance, Percussion

    My research traces feminist genealogies found in the practice of percussion, interrogates narratives found in the performance practice of Western Art Music, and engages with feminist and anti-colonial methodologies and discourse.

  • Chad McKell

    Chad McKell

    Email: cmckell@ucsd.edu

    M.S. in Acoustics and Music Technology, University of Edinburgh 

    M.S. in Physics, Wake Forest University 

    B.S. in Biophysics, Brigham Young University 

    Emphasis: Computer Music

    My research covers mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of acoustic systems. Current research projects include geometric boundary modeling for acoustic wave simulation; non-spherical harmonics for acoustic simulation, capture, and rendering; and physical simulation of cochlear fluid dynamics. I am especially interested in applications of acoustic simulation in audio technology and hearing science.

  • Michelle Mackenzie

    Michelle Mackenzie

    Email: mmackenz@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Douglas Osmun

    Douglas Osmun

    Email: dosmun@ucsd.edu

    M.M. in Composition, University of Missouri

    B.M. in Composition, Western Michigan University

    Emphasis: Composition

    Douglas Osmun is a composer and improviser working largely in the domain of digital media, exploring how contexts shape interactive experiences or improvisatory structures and how they blur the boundaries between composer, performer, audience, and artificial intelligence. Osmun’s work is permeated by recurring themes of digital materiality, speculative interfaces, AI mediation, cybernetic subjectivity, and tech-ideology.
  • Kat Pittman

    Kat Pittman

    Email: kspittma@ucsd.edu (they/them, she/her)

    M.A. University of California San Diego

    B.A. University of California Berkeley

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

     Critical historiographies of wind bands and marching bands and their lasting impacts on contemporary pedagogy in the United States

  • Paul Roth

    Paul Roth

    Email: pnroth@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Max Schaffer

    Max Schaffer

    Email: mschaffe@ucsd.edu (they, she)

    B.A. History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

    Our research gec focuses on practices of virtual trans embodiment & vocal modulation techniques gec in digital communities, in which the separation between self & other skibidi are fractured. We explore what methods gec can be deployed in the always-online world to realize trans gec futurist politics in the present, tracing musical ancestries which gec show digital curation as a crucial technology of survival. 

  • Berk Schneider

    Berk Schneider

    Email: bwschnei@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Trombone 

  • Kevin Schwenkler

    Kevin Schwenkler

    Email: kaschwen@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Peter Sloan

    Peter Sloan

    Email: psloan@ucsd.edu (he, him, his)

    M.M. in Music, Mills College

    B.A. in Philosophy, University of Alabama

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

    Ethnography/sound studies, audible politics, music theory for whales

  • Janet Sit

    Janet Sit

    Email: jsit@ucsd.edu (she, her, hers)

    M.Mus. Composition, University of Victoria; Canada

    B.Mus. Composition, University of Toronto; Canada

    B.Mus. Zoology, University of Toronto; Canada

    Emphasis: Composition 

    Timbres(sounds)-resonances(spaces), sound art/sound installations, underwater acoustics, ocean humanities, feminist critical theories, electronic music 

  • Nicholas Solem

    Nicholas Solem

    Email: nsolem@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Sang Song

    Sang Song

    Email: ssong@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Jonathan Stallings

    Jonathan Stallings

    Email: jstallin@ucsd.edu 

    Emphasis: Composition 

  • Jacob Sundstrom

    Jacob Sundstrom

    Email: jlsundst@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Computer Music

  • Jasper Sussman

    Jasper Sussman

    Email: dsussman@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Alexander Taylor

    Alexander Taylor

    Email: a3taylor@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Anthony Vine

    Anthony Vine

    Email: avine@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Composition

  • Zehao Wang

    Zehao Wang

    Email: zehaowang@ucsd.edu

    B.S. Mathematics, Data Science, Peking University

    Emphasis: Computer Music

    Computer Music Software, Human-Computer Interaction, Instrument Design, Sound Synthesis and Physical Modeling, Musical Acoustics, Theatre

    Website

  • Ilana Waniuk

    Ilana Waniuk

    Email: iwaniuk@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Violin

  • Ess Whiteley

    Ess Whiteley

    Email: swhitele@ucsd.edu (they, them)

    B.M. in Composition, McGill University 

    Emphasis: Composition

    ess (‘s’) whiteley is a composer, multimedia artist, and improvisor working primarily with electronics and intermedia. They are interested in cyborg consciousness, computer hallucinations, embodiment, ecology, and Deep Listening in the context of virtually entangled, post-internet life and the Cthulucene.

  • Sora Woo

    Sora Woo

    Email: s6woo@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

  • Cherrie Yu

    Cherrie Yu

    Email: clyu@ucsd.edu

    M.A. Music, University of California San Diego

    B.A. Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

    Emphasis: Integrative Studies

    Japanese anime, voice studies, transnationalism, transmedia ethnography

    As a Hong Kong person, my transpacific and multilingual background supports my research interest involving the transnational aspect of Japanese popular culture, particularly anime music. My current project explores the transnational experience of listening to Japanese anime voice actors/actresses in relation to the postmodern desire for Japaneseness.

  • Miguel Zazueta

    Miguel Zazueta

    Email: mzazueta@ucsd.edu

    Emphasis: Performance, Voice

  • Devansh Zurale

    Devansh Zurale

    Email: dzurale@ucsd.edu (he, him, his)

    M.S. Music & Technology, Carnegie Mellon University 

    B.E. Electronics Engineering, Mumbai University; India

    Emphasis: Computer Music

    Audio AI & DSP