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Christopher Dobrian
Professor of Music
Joint Appointment with Informatics
Office: 211 Music & Media
Phone: 949-824–7288
E-mail: dobrian@uci.edu
Website: http://music.arts.uci.edu/dobrian
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Christopher Dobrian is Professor of Music (Composition
and Technology) with a joint appointment in the Department of Informatics
and an affiliation with the graduate program in Art Computation
Engineering.
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He is the director of the Gassmann
Electronic Music Studio and the Realtime
Experimental Audio Laboratory (REALab), and is producer/director of
the Gassmann
Electronic Music Series. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the
University of California, San Diego, where he studied composition with
Joji Yuasa, Robert Erickson, Morton Feldman, and Bernard Rands, and computer
music with F. Richard Moore and George Lewis. He is vice president of
the Electronic Music Foundation, and is the author of the original technical
documentation and tutorials for the Max, MSP, and Jitter programming environments
for arts software development. His work in computer music focuses on the
development of “artificially intelligent” interactive systems
for composition, improvisation, and cognition.
Recent works include the solo CD Artful
Devices: Music for Piano and Computers (2000); Microepiphanies:
A Digital Opera (2000), a completely computer-controlled performance;
Invisible Walls (2001), for dancers, motion tracking system,
and computer-controlled synthesizer; Distance Duo (2001), for
two computer pianos in remote locations connected via internet; In
Tongues (2002), for flute and interactive computer system (premiered
by virtuoso James Newton in Havana); and Mannam (2003), for Korean
flute (daegeum) and interactive computer system (premiered at
the Seoul International Computer Music Festival).
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