Howdy everyone, quick little bio.
I'm currently based in LA. A current second-year MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in the Music Technology program. Main focuses in my work revolve around creative uses of local artificial intelligence, both creating and researching.
I have two first-authored papers published at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). The NIME paper, Modernizing the Machine Lab with Mechatronic Immersive Design and Artificial Intelligence, goes into detail about the latest expansions and updates that have occurred in CalArts' Machine Lab through out the 2025-2026 academic year. The ICMC paper, AI Framework for Dynamic Robotic Instrument Calibration, discusses the implemented MLP/KNN hybrid calibration framework for robotic instruments' dynamic response. More details on these papers can be found here.
The other half of my work is as an artist. This includes Bee Boy, where I created visuals, networking architecture, and Max patch for the performance. My latest installation includes Tracking Session, where I have four LLMs communicating throughout the week creating an album. Based on the conversations during the day, a prompt is built and given to ACE-Step 1.5 to generate the song accordingly. All this being done locally on one machine.
Most of my work is done using Ableton, Max, Python, and TouchDesigner.
What am I up to right now:
- Working on my masters thesis that compares the current state of the art music generation algorithms (DiTs, Mamba, and Masked Non-Autoregressive Transformers) and seeing how they compare on local hardware. More details can be seen here
- Creating visuals and expanding my TouchDesigner skills
- Occasional game jams for fun
- Of course playing with my Eurorack and hopefully make something I can release
- Playing Factorio, Counterstrike, and random GameCube games to make sure I don't burn out.
