Application for PhD in Music Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology
1. Contemporary Music Review Journal Article (2023)
“Navigating Technological Obsolescence: Analysis and Reconstruction of Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I“
This journal article is part of a special edition of Contemporary Music Review highlighting conference papers presented at the 2021 “Dialogues: Analysis and Performance Symposium”. As neither of my degrees had thesis requirements, I like to think that this is my “budget thesis” at it is a cumulation of the work that I did throughout my two master’s degrees at the University of Toronto.
2. Musicae Scientiae Journal Article (2024)
“Please unmute your microphone: Comparing the effectiveness of remote versus in-person percussion training”
(Tristan Loria, Ben Duinker, Timothy Roth, Aiyun Huang, and Michael H. Thaut)
This is a journal article that I co-authored reporting the results of a study taken in the Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) at the University of Toronto. I assisted in experiment design, operating of motion capture equipment, data processing and writing and editing the final paper.
3. Master’s Major Project: chatterbox EP (2023)
This is a 5-song EP of songs that served as my Major Project for my Master’s in Music Technology and Digital Media at the University of Toronto. Inspired by hip-hop production and experimental improvisation, I wanted to create music that I could perform live. This resulted in a live video performance with a setup consisting of noise boxes and found sounds miked by 25 contact microphones.
4. Onset Detection for Motion Capture Data Extraction
This project started off as a Max patch that I developed to aid data processing for motion capture studies in the Music and Health Research Collaboratory at the University of Toronto. I used it to process thousands of audio excerpts and ran training sessions on its use for other members of the lab. More recently, I migrated this into Python as my final project for Harvard’s CS50P “Intro to Programming with Python” course.
5. Max patch: Shadow Box (1986)
5. Max patch: Shadow Box (1986)
This patch is a digital reconstruction of the electronics portion for David Jaeger’s “Shadow Box” (1986) for accordion and live electronics. I am working with the composer and an accordionist to revive this work, which has not been performable for some time. The patch also serves as a test for a new preservation method that I am working on by creating dataset .csv files to store DSP information, a project that I hope to complete as part of my doctoral studies. I have submitted a full proposal for this project for the 2024 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition, which is included in full below.
Other items of interest include…
The ICMC 2023 Paper that I co-authored about Max pedagogy:
The 2022 performance of Stockhausen’s “Mikrophonie I” (1964) that I led at the University of California, San Diego:
Timothy Roth 