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My research interests are in contemporary music composition, computer music, history of electroacoustic music, spectral music, human-computer interaction, technology-mediated performance, spatial music, new media arts, algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence, musical neural networks, telematic performance, transmediation, and integration of technology into Greek tragedy, Japanese nō theatre, and renga poetry.

 

Publications


Articles

September 2024, "Mimetic Possibilities: Collaboration through Movement in Multimedia Opera”, Kurt Mikolajczyk, Austin Oting Har, Laura Wachsmann, Oliver Bown, and Samuel Ferguson, MIT Press: Leonardo

October 2023, “Integrating Live Computer Tools into the Creation, Adaptation, and Performance of Japanese Noh Theatre”, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

June 2019, "Music as a Discourse'/ 'Music as a State of Sound': An Interpretation of Gérard Grisey’s Conceptual Framework for Spectral Musical Composition", University of Melbourne: Context: Journal of Music Research

 

Presentations


10/18/24 Composition Colloquium, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley

10/15/24 Creative Computing for Music and the Arts, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley

10/14/24 Seminar in Contemporary Music, Morrison, University of California, Berkeley

10/25/23 Applications in Audio, Javits Center, New York City, Audio Engineering Society Convention

09/26/23 Music Technology Innovation, Research & Strategy Innovation Center, University of the Virgin Islands

 

With Barnaby Brown

October 2020, Five Types of Vibrato: exploring the possibilities on doublepipes

October 2020, A hypothesis for the birth of ancient Greek musical notation, c. 500 BCE

 

Edited

April 2020, Isobel Savulescu, "How does Robert Glasper and Miles Davis' Album Everything's Beautiful (2016) Move the Legacy of Jazz Rap Forward?" University of Sydney: Sydney Undergraduate Journal of Musicology

 

Forthcoming

Austin Oting Har and Kurt Mikolajczyk, “Renga for White Noise: Algorithmic Composition and Artificial Intelligence with the Principles of Japanese Linked Verse Poetry”, accepted in Australasian Computer Music Conference

Barnaby Brown and Austin Oting Har, "Composing for Aulos: Technical Possibilities and Notational Solutions"

Barnaby Brown and Austin Oting Har, "Visualizing Vibrato: A Library of Wiggles to Broaden Technical and Cultural Horizons"

 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9965-8901

 

 

 

 


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