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Selected works since 2015
Software
Scale Navigator Ensemble Jammer
Networked ensemble instruments synchronized via Firebase. Multiple players share harmonic state in real-time.
2024
Scale Navigator Scale Awareness Bridge M4L Device
Max for Live device. Push 2 integration.
2024
(((Notes)Chords)Scales)))
Real-time harmonic inference from MIDI input. Uses Boyd chord-ranking algorithm.
2023
Progression Concatenator
Enter two progressions. Get seamless transition via pivot chord. Used to chain Max Reger modulations.
2023
Risset Rhythm MIDI Generator
MIDI generator for Risset rhythms — the rhythmic equivalent of Shepard tones. Creates seamless endless acceleration or deceleration. Supports any polyrhythmic ratio.
2020
Heptagrams
Semi-improvisational piece for four singers, conductor, and MIDI-controlled player piano. Real-time score with sixteen seven-note modes from church modes to Carnatic rāgam.
2019
Average SATB Voiceleading M4L Device
Max for Live MIDI effect. Transforms single notes into 4-voice chords using Huron's musicological research on Bach and Haydn.
2023
Wave of Wellness FutureCare
Agetech / smarthome app. Product Manager.
2023
Music
Bluegrass Abstraction
NPR Tiny Desk submission.
2022
Head Wound
Film score.
2021
Samplerate Counterpoint
Album. Contrapuntal sample rate modulation.
2021
Wavespace
Music for Lachlan Turczan's immersive water-light installation. Featured at Milan Design Week 2023.
2023
Solve Podcast
Original music for iHeartRadio scripted true crime podcast.
2021
How Do You Make Music from Scales?
Demonstration of Scale Navigator via musical composition for Chinese flute.
2020
Adoration of the Flowers
Plunderphonics collage scoring Lachlan Turczan's bee video. Transposed into B major.
2019
An Opera for Ants
Plunderphonics collage scoring another Lachlan Turczan video.
2018
Grains
Sonifying slices of mulberry wood.
2018
Unsettling Approach to Skincare
Horror film score.
2017
Cactus Zoetrope
2016
A Perfect Mess
Experimental animation presenting chaotic patterns that resolve into predetermined design. Custom software by WET (Bellagio fountains). Film by Lachlan Turczan, music by Nathan Turczan.
2017
Loyal to the Group of Seventeen's Story: The Just Man
Scoring the story within a story from Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun: The Citadel of the Autarch.
2018
Happy Birthday Granddad
Original song written and performed with my brothers for our grandfather's 90th birthday.
2017
Sound Design
Interactive Podcast
Revery Media / Amazon Alexa. Procedural audio for interactive storytelling.
2021
Performances
CalArts CEAIT Festival
2019
REDCAT Gallery
2019
CalArts Expo
2018
Wild Beast Music Pavilion
2018
CalArts Gala
2022
Machines and Strings at REDCAT
2018
Installations
Thought Loops
Interactive audiovisual installation. Camera-based motion tracking.
2019
Window Lace
CalArts MTIID showcase. Processing and p5.js sketches displayed on TVs in mall storefront windows.
2018
Teaching
Media and Web Development
CalArts, 2021
Private Voice Instruction
2015–2020
Musical Theater Teacher
San Francisco, 2014–2017
Research & Writing
The Scale Navigator: A Synesthetic Interface for Manipulating Harmony in Composition, Performance and Installation
MFA Thesis, CalArts.
2020
NIME Conference Paper
New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Peer-reviewed.
2019
Vocal & Choral
Chordas Collective
CTO & Co-founder, 2016–2018
UC Santa Cruz Concert Choir
Assistant Conductor, 2014–2015
UC Santa Cruz Chamber Singers
Bass-Baritone, 2014–2015
Education
MFA Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence, and Design
CalArts, 2020
BA Vocal Performance
UC Santa Cruz, 2015
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