ICAM Music Festival 2025
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Senior students in the ICAM-Music major program presents their projects during the Spring Quarter of their final year at UC San Diego. For June 2022, students presented both in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, North Courtyard as well as inside the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater.
Presentations in the Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater were livestreamed online and available for on-demand viewing: https://vimeo.com/716992700
Check out some pictures below and learn more about each student's project.
View the Courtyard Presentations Program | View the Theater Presentations Program
2025 ICAM Presenters
Nick Abaunza - Note Finder
Nick Abaunza - Note Finder
Note Finder is a music transcription tool that converts an audio file to music notation. The program aims to support music education, composition, and analysis.
James Adame - SUPA DUPA MIXTAPE
James Adame (Jameson) - SUPA DUPA MIXTAPE
This is by all intents and purposes, a calm lil mixtape. It is my first articulated attempt at becoming better at my craft. This project is 5 tracks long and were all produced, mixed, and mastered by yours truly. I appreciate you all.
Aleck Adriano - Creature Convo | Text to Speech Synthesis
Aleck Adriano - Creature Convo | Text to Speech Synthesis
Like the cute English-ish mumbling in Animal Crossing, Creature Convo lays the groundwork for an upcoming Text to Speech Synthesis plugin, designed for game developers to create expressive, wide ranges of voices ready for light processing at run time.
Type your own text and give the characters emotions! Check the demo out to interact with different animals.
The project is planned to be an accessible Godot plugin.
Audi Bunchien - Stay True
Audi Bunchien - Stay True
4 Song Project consisting of RnB/Hip Hop Style
Elise Burcham - Title Unknown
Elise Burcham - Title Unknown
My project is a 5 song indie rock EP consisting of 3 full songs and 2 interludes. It spans the themes of love and friendship that I have experienced at UCSD. This project also will include a live performance of the 3 full songs! All of the parts were either recorded by myself or by the people the songs are about. The songs were written, composed, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by myself.
Email | Linktree | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube | Instagram
Alex Castaneda - Title Unknown
Davide Cerignoli - Title Unknown
Davide Cerignoli - Title Unknown
Coming Soon
Sandra Chang - Nausea
Sandra Chang - Nausea
“The Nausea has not left me and I don’t believe it will leave me soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I.”
~Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Nic Colebank - Music Emotion Visualizer
Nic Colebank - Music Emotion Visualizer
The Music Emotion Visualizer takes any audio file and creates predictions for the emotional qualities of the track. It creates a dynamic landscape that evolves throughout the track to reflect the emotion detected.
Tassja Falcatan - Leafsong Legacy: The Call of Kalira
Tassja Falcatan - Leafsong Legacy: The Call of Kalira
Leafsong Legacy: The Call of Kalira is a narrative exploration game about a fractured land, forgotten histories, and the quiet power of care. Set in the town of Elaris, players follow Terra, a young girl raised on fading stories of Kalira, a once-vibrant realm now left in ruin. As strange weather patterns begin to disturb the town, Terra starts to sense a call deep in the land—a melody once known as the Leafsong.
Through conversations, small acts of restoration, and the discovery of hidden spaces, players uncover the legacy of a displaced people and the environmental harm left behind. As Terra follows whispers of the past to a long-lost shrine, she begins to hear the Leafsong return, an ancient melody tied to the rhythm of nature itself.
Leafsong Legacy invites players to engage with themes of climate awareness, cultural memory, and hope. It reminds us that change often begins with one voice, one action, and one seed.
Lamberto Flores - Chicano Audio FIle V.3
Lamberto Flores (Tidoh) - Chicano Audio FIle V.3
An audio time capsule of the current social and political climate through the eyes and ears of a first generation college student, a child of immigrants, a poet and a Chicano from
Compton seeking a higher education in hopes to break the ongoing generational curses that have suppressed the Chicano community dating back to the civil rights movement in America.
Email | SoundCloud | Spotify | X | Instagram
Ash Floyd - STEREOSCOPIC
Ash Floyd - STEREOSCOPIC
STEREOSCOPIC is a play about the relation between the transfeminine experience and memory. The tech will be handled via one laptop, using Ableton Live, Max, and Lightkey to control all audiovisual elements.
Xavier Gabet - no one is there anymore
Xavier Gabet (ESPR//T) - no one is there anymore
It is a six-track album with a virtual environment for each track. The environments were made in Unreal Engine and are walked through like a video game. I will be tabling.
Alan Gill - Remixer Tool
Alan Gill - Remixer Tool
My project is a desktop application that lets people split the stems from a song they have on their hard drive, and apply effects onto it, change volume, and then even export a remixed version of it. Intended to be easy to use and easy accessible.
Cristin Huffman - S.A.L.T (Sound Activated Lighting Trigger)
Cristin Huffman - S.A.L.T (Sound Activated Lighting Trigger)
SALT is a user-friendly desktop application that automates stage lighting control by synchronizing with any audio signal in real-time via OSC communication to a lighting console. This convenient plug-and-play solution provides coordinated stage lighting for everyone, regardless of their experience with light programming.
Emily Jaime - Sonidos de la Mente
Connor Kenny - Be Yourself, Do It Yourself
Connor Kenny - Be Yourself, Do It Yourself
I will be streaming my 4-song EP which I recorded on cassette during the Serial presentations, along with video accompaniment.
Raymond Lim - LEGEND
Raymond Lim - LEGEND
A compilation of downtempo songs using samples of 90's-00's Chinese dramas and pop songs. LEGEND takes curations from the Lim family's favorite music icons and edits them down into a modern, club-inspired format that draws heavily on effects and reverb.
SILENCE features a blend between "Silence is Gold" by Leslie Cheung and "A Laugh in the Ocean" by James Wong, taking instrumental elements and drives it into a catchy drop.
CONDOR is a rendition of the "Return of the Condor Heroes" ending theme song, "The Sad Pacific" by Richie Jen, and it focuses on chops and edited 5/4 rhythms to make a percussive rock arrangement.
ANITA transforms Anita Mui's "Sunset Song" and parts of Ye Liyi's performance on the "The Bund" theme song in order to make an atmospheric house jam with blips of pads and vocal chops.
Kelsie Lloyd - Killswitch
Kelsie Lloyd - Killswitch
The Unity-based project Killswitch was built to be a rhythm-fighting game demo combining a love for video games/coding with electronic music. The game comes from a gamifying lens, gamifying electronic music as this sort of love letter in the form of a boss fight with DDR-esque arrows to pressed on time with the backing music track. As such, this is intended to be an immersive experience beyond just listening to the music. Although I am not a musician, I always have sensed rhythms that give me this adrenaline-induced visceral energy, specifically in the loud, fast, harsh music I listen to daily. Thus, I wish to bring this experience forward in some sort of colorful, fun, fast-paced interactive experience.
Alain Njike - College Camels vol.1
Alain Njike - College Camels vol.1
College Camels vol.1 is a collection of 6 song. To show off these tracks I want to do a live performance of three of the tracks while showing the rest at my booth.
Email | Apple Music | Instagram
Jay Oh - EP:Sketch
Jay Oh - EP:Sketch
I wanted to get experience making songs utilizing the skills that were taught in the ICAM: Music courses. It consists of 4songs that were produced, mixed, and mastered by me.
Jerson Perez - Echoes of Identity
Jerson Perez - Echoes of Identity
A concept album that tells a story through lyricism and music.
Email | Website | Soundcloud | Spotify | Instagram | YouTube
Roman Perez - Title Unknown
Roman Perez - Title Unknown
Coming Soon
Attalia Rogers - Disrupted Nostalgia
Attalia Rogers - Disrupted Nostalgia
My senior project is an immersive drumline show composed and produced entirely within Ableton Live. The music was mixed in order to simulate the experience of a “visual” performer – a non percussionist who contributes to the narrative and movement of a show. The listener (you) will hear the show from the perspective of someone on the floor, surrounded by the energy and music of the ensemble.
James Streett- Dolphin Box
James Streett- Dolphin Box
By gathering underwater audio data of dolphins, the dolphin box was designed to use machine learning to train a model and classify dolphin communication Live.
Cameron Thomas - ICAM
Cameron Thomas - ICAM
ICAM is a curated collection of original songs created during my time in the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM) program at UC San Diego. This project showcases my growth as a musician, producer, and songwriter, blending acoustic and digital elements, personal storytelling, and experimental sound design. Each track reflects a different moment, challenge, or inspiration from my years in the program, capturing both the technical skills and emotional expression I’ve developed throughout my ICAM journey.
Cristina De La Torre - VDAV: Vibrato Detection & Analysis for Vocalists
Cristina De La Torre - VDAV: Vibrato Detection & Analysis for Vocalists
VDAV is a software tool that aims to close the gap between vocal instruction and practice, specific to vibrato development, with an analytical solution that aids self-monitoring. VDAV processes audio and provides feedback on vibrato metrics, like rate and depth, to help novice vocalists quantify their progress. By providing another approach to measuring technique development, vocalists are able to obtain a deeper understanding of their current skill—supplementing instruction in the process of learning.
Rebeca Villafana - Visions from the Ruins
Rebeca Villafana - Visions from the Ruins
An experimental audio narrative that blends modern soundscapes with mythological echoes from ancient Greece.
Alexander Voyles - Wild Harmony
Alexander Voyles - Wild Harmony
My project is a collection of field recordings from National Parks and songs/music I have made inspired by those captured sounds. The project is presented through a website I have designed.
Email | Website | Soundcloud | YouTube
Annie Wong - Lucid Rhythm
Annie Wong - Lucid Rhythm
Lucid Dream is a 2D rhythm puzzle platformer game. The purpose of this game is to gamify concepts of music production in a way that is entertaining and informative to beginners. Lucid Rhythm follows a character named Harper who has been stuck in a writer's block, but desperately wants to get back to producing music. One fateful night, when they fell asleep, they entered what is called "the Lucid Realm" and into one of its three worlds, the Lofi World. The Lucid Realm has been invaded by Nightmares and it's up to Harper to save the citizens through a series of puzzles and material collection. Each of these games teach the player about a crucial musical concept including melody, timbre, and effects. By the end of each game, players have not only learned these concepts, but will have also played an correlated instrument.
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