Board of Directors
MATTHIAS
KRIESBERG
is a composer who, during the last 20 years, has also practiced music journalism for The New York Times and ongoing computer music research. In 2002, he began a long-term residency at UC San Diego's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, now part of the Qualcomm Institute. Since 2009, he has collaborated with audio engineer Kevin Larke on the development of new digital tools to expand the space where classical composition, virtuosic performance, and digital signal processing intersect.
KEVIN
LARKE
is a music researcher and instrument builder based in New York City, specializing in real-time music systems, acoustic instrument tracking, and robotic musical instruments. His experience includes development of analysis-re-synthesis algorithms and audio effects systems at Ensoniq/EMU, acoustic compiler design at Soundball Inc., development of acoustic feature extraction and musical affect measurement software for Sourcetone Inc., as well as research on new acoustic ranging and gesture recognition techniques.
AARON JAY
KERNIS
is a composer whose music is featured in concert performances throughout the world, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. He has taught composition at the Yale School of Music since 2003, and runs the Composer Lab at the Nashville Symphony and string workshop at the Next Festival. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Classical Music Hall of Fame. A book about his life in music was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.
CATHERINE
HERBST
is an architect licensed in California since 1995, is co-principal of San Diego architecture firm Rinehart Herbst, and Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University, San Diego. Since its formation in 2000, her firm's practice has established a template for optimal ways of integrating built space with environmental imperatives, conditions and challenges. The firm has developed acoustic innovations and solutions for public spaces, singled out for its World Trade Center Memorial design in the book 9/11 Memorial Visions.
MILLER
PUCKETTE
is known as the creator of the Max and Pure Data real-time computer music software environments. As an MIT undergraduate he won the Putnam mathematics competition in 1979, and finished his PhD at Harvard in 1986. He was a researcher at the MIT Media lab from its inception until 1986, then at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) in Paris, and is now professor of music at the University of California, San Diego. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Technical University of Berlin, and has received two honorary degrees and the SEAMUS award.