Education

Teaching

Employment

Event Administration

Works

Solo

Chamber

Film

Projects

Recordings

Web Design

Sound Design

Publications

Brown, R., Vasquez J.C. (2020) Autoethnography and Emotional Exposure as an Approach for Electroacoustic Music Composition, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2020, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

Awards, Grants and Scholarships

Service

• Assistant Director of the UVA New Music Ensemble (2020 - 2022)
• Co-chair of the UVA Music Arts Board, responsible for bringing a musical group in residence to the UVA student population (see Event Administration)
• WTJU Live Engineer for live radio performances of artists including Randy Johnston, Harmonica Blowout, Michaela Anne, Hiroya Tsukamoto, Rosier
• SEAMUS Director of Technical Development (2021 - present)
• SEAMUS National Conference adjudicator (2021, 2019, 2018, 2017)
• N_SEME Executive Director (2019)
• SEAMUS Interactions CD adjudicator (2018)
• Composition mentor for undergraduate composition students at UVA (2018)
• Science Ficta artist residency organizer (2019-2020)

Panels & Presentations

• Paper presentation of "Enter the Packetsphere: Environment-Aware Web Art" with Zak Argabrite, as part of ACMC 2021
• Paper presentation of "Autoethnography and Emotional Exposure as an Approach for Electroacoustic Music Composition" with Juan Carlos Vasquez, as part of ICMC 2021
• "Electroacoustic Music Tools" panel, as part of SPLICE 2020
• Presentations on my compositional aesthetics (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
• "Recording Technology," for Technosonics 2018
• Presentation on music technology topics for students in the Orange County Scholars program (2018)
• "Electronic Voices," for Technosonics 2017
• Presentation on writing for harp (2020, 2018, 2012, 2011)

Collaborations

• fake and far away, installation collaboration with co-artist Matias Vilaplana Stark
• Sound Designer for community productions of Every Brilliant Thing, Pipeline, and Accidental Death of an Anarchist with Live Arts in Charlottesville, VA
• Packetsphere: An Internet Travelogue, collaboration with co-artist Zak Argabrite as part of the BROWSER Festival, 2021
• rebuild of Listening to the Virginia Barrier Islands, with Eli Stine, 2019
• the body is/isn't extraordinary, collaboration with co-composer Heather Mease and choreographer Katie Schetlick, 2018
• 👄👂🏻👁️ very close to me 👁️👂🏻👄, collaboration with co-composer and multimedia artist Heather Mease
• audio specialist/programmer with conceptual artist Clint Bagwell for his work, Open Source, as part of his solo exhibition, Ghosts, 2014
• Music director, composer, and performer (synthesizer) for Mountain View High Schools' production of Dracula, 2014
• Music director, co-composer, and performer (harp) for the Fredericksburg Rude Mechanicals' production of Sweeney Todd, 2013

Broadcasts

Interviews

• Week-long feature with WTJU in Charlottesville in April 2021
• Lexical Tones, ep. 72: Live from SEAMUS 2018
• Patch In Podcast, ep. 44: Talking Into a Head, 2018

Songwriting

• Formaldehyde on With Good Reason from RADIO IQ, Oct 8 - 14, 2016
• Live set with Nature Boy Explorer on Time Is Tight from WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, December 5, 2014
• Formaldehyde on Time Is Tight from WRIR 97.3FM, November 28, 2014
• Formaldehyde on Time Is Tight from WRIR 97.3FM, September 26, 2014
• Formaldehyde on Time Is Tight from WRIR 97.3FM, April 5, 2014
• Formaldehyde on Time Is Tight from WRIR 97.3FM, February 19, 2014

Skills and Technology

• Audio: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Max 8, VCV Rack, Finale, Musescore
• Video: Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, Jitter
• 3D: Blender (modeling, rigging, animating)
• Web Development: NodeJS, Vue, Nuxt, Wordpress, Jekyll, Flask
• Programming Languages: JavaScript, Python, PHP, C, Java

Events