Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Director
2008-2009
Michael Berger
Christine Keiko Funahashi
Visda Goudarzi
Linden Melvin
Jason Sadural
Hiroko Teresawa
Cobi Van Tonder
Michael Berger, after two years of preliminary study at Kwantlen University College in Langley, British Columbia, transferred to the University of Victoria in 2001. There he studied with Christopher Butterfield, earning his Bachelor of Music in Composition and Theory in 2005. Michael then completed a Master of Music in Composition (2007) at the University of Alberta with the support of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. While there, he studied with Drs. Howard Bashaw, Andriy Talpash, and Mark Hannesson. Michel is presently in the second year of the D.M.A. in Composition program at Stanford University, with renewed funding from the S.S.H.R.C. In the summer of 2006, Michael participated in the Montreal-based Quatuor Bozzini's annual composes's kitchen and Arraymusic's Young Composers' Workshop in Toronto the following year. In Autumn of 2008, he completed a commission from the Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal for their biennial Generation 2008 Canadian tour. In January of 2009, Michael presented a paper discussing this piece, Skeleton: The Decayed Remnants of Time, at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Since arriving at Stanford University, in addition to his compositional work, Michael has focused on researching new devices for emotive electroacoustic performance at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Christine Keiko Funahashi is a Japanese-Canadian educator who specializes in English language education for non-native speakers. Aside from teaching English to immigrants in Canada and students in Japan, Keiko has also developed curriculum and language programs that incorporate interactive classroom activities and learning materials. She views her role as a mediator who designs and facilitates engaging learning experiences. On the side, Keiko enjoys undertaking art projects that combine her professional experience in designing learner-content interaction and her love of art. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, with specializations in applied linguistics, fine arts, and Mandarin Chinese. After graduating in 2003, she taught and developed English communication programs in Japan for two years before going back to Canada to earn a diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language. Keiko is currently studying in the Stanford University School of Education, and is expected to complete the Learning, Design, and Technology Master's Program in August 2009.
Visda Goudarzi is a computer musician. She is currently a graduate student in Music, Science, and Technology at CCRMA. She has also a Master's degree in Computer Science from TU vienna. She has played piano since childhood. Her research areas include software development for computer music, human-computer interaction, gesture based interfaces, distribution systems, computer graphics, and the application of new media in art.
Jaroslaw Kapuscinski is an intermedia composer and pianist whose work has been presented at New York's MOMA, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Museum of Modern Art Palais de Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou in Paris, National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and numerous other venues. He has received awards at the UNESCO film sur l'art Festival in Paris (1992), VideoArtFestival in Locarno (1993, 1994), and Festival of new Cinema and New Media in Montreal (2000), among others. Kapuscinski graduated from the Academy of Music in Warsaw and University of California, San Diego. Currently, he teaches Composition and leads the Intermedia Performance Lab at Stanford University.
http://jaroslawkapuscinski.com/
Linden Melvin is a sophomore majoring in Music with a concentration in Composition, and minoring in Creative Writing. Under the direction of Jaroslaw Kapucinski, Linden hopes to explore the world of intermedia performance and continue to create works that are never limited to one medium of reception.
Javier Sanchez is currently a Visiting Scholar at CCRMA, Stanford University. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. from Tecnun, University of Navarra, Spain. His research and academic career is focused on computer graphics applied to several fields, such as product design, architecture, manufacturing, reverse engineering, and music. His current activity is related to the creation of audiovisual material in real time with the intention of exploring the relationship between musical and spatial movements. Some of his computer graphic techniques are based on the manipulation of parametric curves and surfaces (NURBS) and have been used to create visual dynamic effects.
Hiroko Teresawa is a soon-to-graduate CCRMA Ph.D. student from Japan, working in her dissertation on timbre perception modeling. She grew up as a singer and calligrapher, then earned her B.E. and M.E. in Electronic Engineering from University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, and M.A. in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University, and worked as a researcher at IRCAM, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris, Sony Corporation, and NTT communication science laboratories in Tokyo. She enjoys producing music, video art, installations, research publications, thesis chapters, and heirloom tomatoes.
Cobi Van Tonder (aka OTOPLASMA) is a South African composer, producer, and performer of interactive electronicmusic and other digital media. She has worked with various dance choreographers, video artists, and actors. She has produced for cinema, television, radio, and mobile media. Van Tonder has a National Diploma in Light Music (Technikon Pretoria), and a National Certificate in Musical Theatre (Technikon Pretoria). She is currently a pursuing an M.F.A. in Art Practice at Standford University.
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