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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
Email: latassi@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Landon Bain
Email: lbain@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Tyler J. Borden
Email: tborden@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Cello
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Joseph Bourdeau
Email: jbourdea@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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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
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Daniel Corral
Email: dcorral@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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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.
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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
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Rose Dwyer
Email: rsdwyer@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Mariana Flores
Email: maf004@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Voice
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Juliana Gaona Villamizar
Email: jgaonavi@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance
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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.
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Madison Greenstone
Email: mkgreens@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Clarinet
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Nathaniel Haering
Email: nhaering@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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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
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Myra Hinrichs
Email: mhinrich@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Violin
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Zachary Konick
Email: zkonick@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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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.
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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.
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Michelle Mackenzie
Email: mmackenz@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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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
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
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Paul Roth
Email: pnroth@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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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.
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Berk Schneider
Email: bwschnei@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Trombone
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Kevin Schwenkler
Email: kaschwen@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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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
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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
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Nicholas Solem
Email: nsolem@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Sang Song
Email: ssong@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Jonathan Stallings
Email: jstallin@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Jacob Sundstrom
Email: jlsundst@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Computer Music
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Jasper Sussman
Email: dsussman@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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Alexander Taylor
Email: a3taylor@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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Anthony Vine
Email: avine@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Composition
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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
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Ilana Waniuk
Email: iwaniuk@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Violin
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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.
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Sora Woo
Email: s6woo@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Integrative Studies
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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.
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Miguel Zazueta
Email: mzazueta@ucsd.edu
Emphasis: Performance, Voice
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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