In progress. An iOS app for sequencing complex rhythms on a customizable grid. The design allows interpolation between two rhythmic patterns to create a hybrid pattern, among other unique tools.

Github

Paper (PDF)

I wrote and maintained an online A.P. computer science curriculum for EarSketch. EarSketch is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that was created to motivate students to consider further study and careers in computer science. It is a web-based DAW / IDE for making music with code, and contains an integrated curriculum for teaching computer science, music technology, and music composition.

EarSketch Site
JavaScript Curriculum (PDF)
Python Curriculum (PDF)

Note: curriculum optimized for web, not PDF.

Avrosh Kumar and I implemented a bird song classifier in Matlab, which was tested on the BirdClef data set. We used de-noising and musical segmentation techniques (especially the self-similarity lag matrix) on the data before training a k-Nearest Neighbor classifier.

Teammate: Avrosh Kumar

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Paper (PDF)

As part of the Moog Hackathon at Georgia Tech, our team built a wireless synth controller designed to be embedded in a beachball. The controller sends gyro/accelerometer data to a computer, then to an arduino, and finally maps the beachball movement to controls on a Moog Werkstatt synthesizer. Our team received honorable mention.

Teammates: Hayden Riddiford and Charles “Julian” Knight

A study on how the rate and depth of vibrato, modeled as frequency modulation here, affects a listener’s sense of central pitch. The data was acquired using human subjects and a system built in Max MSP. We found that vibrato rate had little effect on the listener’s ability to identify a central pitch. I designed the experiment, built the first versions of the Max patch, and co-wrote the paper.

Teammates: Deepak Gopinath, Alan Zhang, Brian Lee, Roozbeh Khodambashi

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Paper (PDF)

Shimon is a Robotic marimba player living at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. I replaced Shimon’s marimba with a set of drums and created an interactive system where Shimon responds to timbral changes in the drums (effected by a human performer). For example, bending a struck metal sheet was mapped to an increase in tempo, while other drums detected onsets and triggered new sections in the music. A band with Avrosh Kumar and Chris Latina was formed around this and performed at the Listening Machines 2016 concert.

Paper (PDF)
Github
Concert Video (YouTube)

A simple website for testing surround panning using the Web-Audio API. A canvas shows speaker positions in the current audio setup, and mousing over the canvas pans the audio based on the mouse-position and speaker-positions. In progress.

Github

A web-based audio-visual toy. The user can draw circles and place events on them, which rotate and make sound when colliding with other circles.

Github

A visual and written analysis of James Tenney's "Collage No. 1 (Blue Suede)", one of the first pieces of music to sample popular music.

Paper (PDF)