AKITO VAN TROYER Assistant Professor | Berklee College of Music Research Affiliate | MIT Media Lab 1140 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3693, USA 617.821.1306 | [email protected] | https://vantroyer.com/

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts and Sciences 2012.9 – 2018.2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Arts and Sciences

Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences 2010.9 – 2012.8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Arts and Sciences

Master of Science in Music Technology 2008.9 – 2010.6 Georgia Institute of Technology Music Technology

Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies for Multimedia 2001 – 2008.6 University of Hawaii at Manoa Interdisciplinary Studies for Multimedia

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computational Acoustic, Music, and Visual Design. Performance Systems. Audience Participation. Human-Computer Interaction. Ubiquitous Computing. Music Information Retrieval. Signal Processing. Embedded System. Digital Fabrication.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

MM-RT: Electromagnetic Tabletop Musical Instrument 2015 – present MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • Investigates new paradigm of musical instruments to trigger sonic curiosity towards music-making. • Initiated concept, produced hardware, and programmed software. • Paper published and presented at the 2017 New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. • People’s Choice Award for Most Unusual Musical Instrument (2017 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition).

Constellation: An Audio Web App for Music Score Making 2013 – present MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • Enables website visitors to intuitively explore and co-create a music piece through graphical input. • Designed and produced both front and back-end software. • Paper published in 2013 Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval proceedings.

Sound Dérive 2013 – present MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • A community-based sound/music application where users can record, upload, view, and share sounds collected in a particular city. • Designed and produced both front-end web and mobile apps as well as back-end server architecture. • Used by thousands of people in Detroit, Miami, Akron, Lucerne in collaboration with organizations such as Detroit Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Lucerne Festival.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 1 Repertoire Remix: Audience Participation-based Networked Music Performance 2013 – 2015 MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • Performance system for audience members to dynamically suggest musical preferences for live web-streaming musical improvisation sessions. • Designed software performance system using web interface and server infrastructure that runs in real-time. • Book chapter published for the Computational Music Science book series on Ubiquitous Music (Springer).

Faceloid: Controlling Vocaloid using Facial Expressions 2011 – 2012 MIT Media Lab and Yamaha Corporation, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • A computer vision-based software that captures facial gestures to control the hardware Vocaloid board in real time. • Developed Java-based Vocaloid controller interface to allow rapid experimentation and mapping of facial gestures to synthetic vocal expressions such as breathiness, brightness and mouth opening.

Remote Theatrical Immersion: Extending Sleep No More 2010 – 2011 MIT Media Lab and Punchdrunk, Research Assistant under Tod Machover • Collaborative project to enhance the immersive experience of live participants in the non-verbal theatrical show called Sleep No More using wearable computing devices, sensors, augmented portal objects, operators, and actors. • Developed wearable computing system with bone conduction headsets and sensors for live participants to communicate non-verbally with remote participants. • Paper published from the 2013 ACM international workshop on Immersive Media Experiences.

Social Influences on Individual’s Live Performance Experience 2011 MIT Media Lab under Rosalind Picard • Investigates live social inputs from audience members on a visual display to help in increasing the engagement level in a live performance experience. • Designed an experimental study in a lab setting with a custom performance system for audience members with electrodermal activity sensors to report their emotional state in real-time.

DrumTop: Everyday Objects as Percussive Instruments 2011 – 2012 MIT Media Lab under Joseph Paradiso • Investigates transforming everyday objects into percussive musical instruments to engage people in exploring the musical potential of their surroundings. • Initiated concept, produced hardware, and programmed software. • The work was exhibited in various venues including MIT Museum and the Curious Sound Objects. • Paper published in the 2012 New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

Chroma District: Site-specific Interactive Audiovisual Installation 2011 MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant under Tod Machover and Meejin Yoon Collaborators: Eyal Shahar and Seung Jin Ham • A fully automated outdoor interactive artwork that responds with lights and sounds to pedestrians as they walk through the installation. • Designed and fabricated lanterns, electronics, and installation site. • Exhibited at the MIT Festival of Art + Science + Technology in 2011.

Acoustically Reconfigurable Musical Instrument 2010 MIT Center for Bits and Atoms under Neil Gershenfeld • Developed a mechanically adjustable sound post structure for the violin to acoustically extend the instrument’s timbre quality in real-time. • Developed the electronic hardware system and fabricated the mechanical system to install inside the body of the violin.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 2 Laptop Orchestra Live Coding (LOLC) 2009 – 2010 Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, Research Assistant under Jason Freeman • Developed a collaborative textual performance system for the laptop orchestra to create and share rhythmic motives based on a collection of recorded sounds. • Designed networked performance system including lexical analysis and parsing. • Several papers published. Received the Best Artwork Award at the 2011 ACM Creativity and Cognition conference.

Real-time Beat Tracking System for a Voice and Guitar 2009 – 2010 Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology under Parag Chordia • Researched and developed a system to beat track voice and guitar in real-time for a smartphone application. • Implemented a context-dependent beat tracking algorithm using C/C++ under iOS.

Measuring Musical Creativity in Musical Performances through Neural Activities 2009 – 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology, Research Assistant under Parag Chordia, Jason Freeman, and Melody Moore Jackson • Investigating the neural correlates of musical creativity by comparing the EEG signal between improvising and sight-reading performers. • Developed a custom software to run the experiment in a lab setting and recorded EEG signals from the participants while they improvise, reproduce, and rest, based on the instructions from the software. Also developed software to topologically analyze the recorded EEG signals.

Beatscape: A Mixed Virtual-Physical Environment for Musical Ensembles 2009 Georgia Institute of Technology under Gil Weinberg Collaborators: Aaron Albin, Brian Blosser, Oliver Jan, and Sertan ¸Sentürk • Mixed virtual-physical environment for musical ensembles where sound objects interact with temporal waves to create rhythmic grooves. • Developed basic concept and built core software components for live performance.

Aspects of Sahnsi and Polos in Balinese Gamelan Instruments 2007 – 2008 University of Hawaii, Undergraduate Thesis with Jim Hearon • Project to sample, analyze, and create a composition of computer music simulating the Balinese gamelan instruments. • Analyzed pitch frequencies of Gamelan Instruments, and simulated harmonic beating, taking place between the Sahnsi and Polos of several instruments.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

EP-390: Interactive Multimedia Immersive Performance (3 Units) 2020.1 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Leading a team of Berklee students in working with Nona Hendryx and artist/singer/songwriter Chagall on an interactive and immersive performance premiering Imogen Heap’s Mi.Mu gloves. This course guides students into designing, prototyping, programming, fabricating and evaluating systems and interfaces that enable new technologically-mediated interactions in a live performance setting. Course topics include motion sensing, artificial intelligence, 3D animation, projection mapping, surround sound system, and virtual and augmented reality.

EP-435: Audio Programming for iOS (2 Units) 2018.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This senior-level course teaches students to use the Apple XCode IDE and the iOS SDK to develop synthesis, signal processing, and MIDI apps for the iOS devices. Swift is used as the primary , and C programming language is reviewed throughout the class.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 3 EP-353: Audio Programming in C (2 Units) 2018.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts A junior-level course for teaching students program musical examples and projects in C programming language. Students learn the terminal application, IDE, and GNU/LLVM Compiler on macOS to write musical programs that do , software synthesis, and signal processing and in the process more deeply understand the underlying algorithms that power all electronic music programs.

LMSC-261: Introduction to (3 Units) 2019.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This sophomore-level class teaches fundamentals of computer programing that will serve as a foundation for developing software applications and further exploration of programming languages. The goal of the course is to prepare students to understand computer codes in general, to understand the role computers can play in solving real-world and creative problems. The course curriculum was planned and implemented by me as a part of the Minor in Creative Coding at Berklee College of Music.

EP-341: Programming in (2 Units) 2018.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This junior-level course introduces students to basic programming concepts and Max software from Cycling74/Abelton. Students learn to design MIDI, audio, and video applications using Max. They also gain problem-solving skills involved in musical representations using basic math through exercises in practical applications as well as algorithmic composition techniques. Projects include drum machines, groove boxes, software synths, samplers, audio processors, remixers and their use with common controllers.

EP-491: Advanced Projects in Electronic Production and Design (2 Units) 2019.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This senior-level course focuses on the production of the capstone Electronic Production and Design project and provides for individual attention within a small group setting. The specific nature of the project is determined by written agreement between student and instructor. In my case, half of the students focus on software development for musical applications and another half on digital music production. Each student participates in the jury process as well as the Senior Showcase at the end of the semester.

EP-223: Modular Functions and Signal Flow (2 Units) 2018.9 – present Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This sophomore-level course introduces students to principles and use of modules (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, envelope generators) found in software and hardware modular sound production systems. The focus is on observing signal characteristics at outputs and defining signal functions (audio, control, timing) solely via connections to inputs. Sonic deconstruction and other electronic ear training techniques are presented, and students produce correlative original sound designs.

ICE-435: Music +: Music and Machine Learning (2 Units) 2018.9 – 2019.5 Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This senior-level course examined in first-hand how new technology is disrupting the new media industry, including how innovative tech platforms can be harnessed to impact the future of music consumption, and the impact of music on the adoption of new technologies. Students are learning the product design process, and put their music-thinking skills into practice, by experiencing what it takes to conceive, design, and prototype an actual product in the new media industry.

EP-322: Advanced Sound Design Techniques (2 Units) 2019.1 – 2019.5 Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts This junior-level course develops a student’s understanding and application of core synthesis skills to include additive, FM, sampling, and other advanced synthesis techniques. Additional work with sonic ear training and patch dictation helps students identify and create unusual and dynamic instrumental sounds and sound effects. Classroom activities and assignments provide the opportunity to use advanced hardware and software synthesis systems to develop unique electronic sounds that can be used in live performance, electronic music production, media post-production, and video game audio applications.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 4 MU402: Independent Study Course on Music and Technology (3 Units) 2017.2 – 2017.3 Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Department of Music, Colorado Springs, Colorado Advised and graded three undergraduate students during the course. Gave guidance to two students on studio production and recording techniques and one student on building a digitally augmented harp. It also introduced the students to the cutting-edge music technology through a field trip to the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition.

MU227: Experimental Electronic Music (3 Units) 2016.11 – 2016.12 Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Department of Music, Colorado Springs, Colorado Developed a new framework to teach the history of experimental music in relationship to electronic and digital technologies through hands-on learning activities. Fifteen students built their own musical instruments, composed for an original piece, and finally performed with the instruments they created.

MU227: Digital Music Production (3 Units) 2016.9 – 2016.10 Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Department of Music, Colorado Springs, Colorado Developed a new hands-on curriculum with an emphasis on digital music production through five phases: time-domain editing, frequency-domain editing, multi-tracking, synthesizer patching, and audio programming. Twenty students used various audio software to create their own projects through the course of the class.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor 2018.9 – present Electronic Production and Design + Liberal Arts at Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215 USA Teaching classes related to music technology, computer science, and programming. Leading the development of the Creative Coding minor program.

Senior Research Engineer 2018.2 – 2018.5 Advanced Concepts Lab at Sonos, 2 Ave de Lafayette, Boston, MA, 02111, USA Worked with user-experience designers and software engineers to hack together the first iterations of Sonos’ next generation of products and experiences. Developed artifacts, processes, and practices to accelerate the team’s ability to prototype with higher fidelity, faster more effectively.

Research Assistant 2010.7 – 2018.2 MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA Research in live media production, audience participation, sound design, wearable technology, visual design, embedded electronics, and fabrication.

Visiting Professor 2016.9 – 2017.5 Colorado College, 14 East Cache La Poudre St, Colorado Springs, 80903, CO, USA Teaching classes about Digital Music Production (Block 2) and Experimental Electronic Music (Block 4). Block 6 was dedicated to advising undergraduate students who want to learn more about music and technology.

Chief Operabot Systems Operator 2011 – 2014 Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston, USA. The Harris Theater, Chicago, USA. The Dallas Opera, Dallas, USA Responsible for programming, maintaining, and running 12 Operabots, triangularly shaped wireless robots, that served as a Greek chorus for the opera, Death and the Powers.

Internship Software Developer 2009.6 – 2009.9 ZoozMobile, 75 Fifth Street NW, 30308, GA, USA Developed Zoozbeat, a gesture-based mobile music studio, for Android devices.

Research Assistant 2008.9 – 2010.5 Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, 30332, GA, USA Research in audience participation, interactive music systems, live audiovisual production, audio programming language, music information retrieval, and digital signal processing.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 5 PUBLICATIONS

THESIS Akito van Troyer: Score Instruments: A new paradigm of musical instruments to guide musical wanderers. Ph.D. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2018.

Akito van Troyer: Hyperaudience: Designing Performance Systems for Audience Inclusion. MS Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2012.

BOOK CHAPTER Akito van Troyer: Repertoire Remix in the Context of Festival City. Ubiquitous Music. Springer, 2014.

JOURNAL PAPERS Jason Freeman and Akito van Troyer: Collaborative Textual Improvisation in a Laptop Ensemble. Computer Music Journal. Vol. 35, No. 2. 2011.

Akito van Troyer and Jim Hearon: Aspects of Sahnsi and Polos in Balinese Gamelan Instruments. CSOUND JOURNAL. 2008.

CONFERENCE PAPERS Rébecca Kleinberger, Anne Harrington, Lydia Yu, Akito van Troyer, David Su, Janet Baker, and Gabriel Miller: Interspecies Interactions Mediated by Technology: an Avian Case Study at the Zoo. CHI 2020. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2020. (TBP)

Akito van Troyer and Rébecca Kleinberger: From Mondrian to Modular Synth: Rendering NIME using Generative Adversarial Networks. 19th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil, 2019.

Akito van Troyer: MM-RT: A Tabletop Musical Instrument for Musical Wonderers. 17th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Copenhagen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017.

Rébecca Kleinberger and Akito van Troyer: Dooremi: a doorway to music. 16th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Brisbane, Griffith University, Australia, 2016.

Xiao Xiao, Donald Derek, Thomas Sanchez, Akito van Troyer, Rébecca Kleinberger, Penny Webb, Joseph Paradiso, Tod Machover, and Hiroshi Ishii: Kinèphone: exploring the musical potential of an actuated pin-based shape display. 16th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Brisbane, Griffith University, Australia, 2016.

Akito van Troyer: Composing Embodied Sonic Play Experiences: Towards Acoustic Feedback Ecology. 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Goldsmiths, University of London, 2014.

Akito van Troyer: Enhancing Site-Specific Theatre Experience with Remote Partners in Sleep No More. Immersive Media Experiences, ACM International Workshop at ACM Multimedia. Barcelona, Spain. 2013.

Akito van Troyer: Constellation: A Tool for Creative Dialog Between Audience and Composer. 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research. Marseille, France. 2013.

Akito van Troyer: DrumTop: Playing with Everyday Objects. 12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012.

Sang Won Lee, Jason Freeman, Andrew Colella, Shannon Yao, and Akito van Troyer: Evaluating Collaborative Laptop Improvisation with LOLC. The Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, 2012.

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 6 Sang Won Lee, Jason Freeman, Andrew Colella, Shannon Yao, and Akito van Troyer: Collaborative musical improvisation in a laptop ensemble with LOLC. Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition, 2011.

Aaron Albin, Sertan Senturk, Akito van Troyer, Brian Blosser, Oliver Jan, and Gil Weinberg: Beatscape, a mixed virtual-physical environment for musical ensembles. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Oslo, Norway, 2011.

PRODUCTION WORK

Dream Machine: Nona Hendryx and Chagall Interactive Performance 2020.5.10 Director of Performance System Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA

Digital Forest: Nona Hendryx and Will Calhoun Interactive Performance 2019.4.20 Director of Performance System 22 Fenway at Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA

Philadelphia Voices 2018 Mobile App Development The Philadelphia Orchestra, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, and Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

Project305 2017 Audio and Network Software Designer New World Symphony, Miami, USA

Sounds of Akron 2016 Audio and Network Software Designer Akron Symphony Orchestra, Akron, USA

Symphony in D 2015 Audio and Network Software Designer Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, USA

A Symphony for Lucerne 2015 Audio and Network Software Designer Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland

Repertoire Remix 2013 – 2014 Performance System Designer MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA

Death and the Powers 2011 – 2014 Chief Robot System Operator The Dallas Opera, Dallas, USA. The Harris Theater, Chicago, USA. Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston, USA

Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea 2014 Audio and Network Software Designer Perth Festival, Perth, Australia

Festival City 2013 Audio and Network Software Designer Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK

A Toronto Symphony 2013 Audio and Network Software Designer Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto, Canada

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 7 Remote Theatrical Immersion: Extending Sleep No More 2012 Wearable Computing System Designer The McKittrick Hotel, New York, USA

LOLC 2010 – 2011 Performance System Designer ACM Creativity and Cognition conference, Atlanta, USA. New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, Oslo, Norway. Future Fest, Atlanta, USA. Listening Machines, Atlanta, USA. Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Princeton, USA

Sonic Generator 2009 – 2010 Sound Engineer and Performance System Designer Atlanta, USA

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2010 Sound Engineer Atlanta, USA

Beatscape 2010 Performer and Performance System Designer Listening Machines, Atlanta, USA

Tessellation 2009 Performance System Designer Listening Machines, Atlanta, USA

PERFORMANCEAND EXHIBITION

Constellation • CityLab 2018, Renaissance Center, 400 Renaissance Dr, Detroit, MI, USA 2018.10.29 – 2018.10.30

MM-RT • Robot-Stravaganza presented by Brains On!, Rindge and Latin High School, Cambridge, USA 2018.4.15 • Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA 2017.3 • Jazz Technology Workshop, The Lilypad, Cambridge, USA 2016 – 2017 • Lincoln Center Global Exchange 2016, Lincoln Center, New York, USA 2016

Music of Tod Machover • University of Vermont, Vermont, USA. 2016

DrumTop • Hacking Arts, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA 2015 • Curious Sound Objects III, Aeronaut Brewing Co., Somerville, USA 2015 • Inventions: Student Showcase, MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA 2014

VibroDome • Tutoring Plus 50th anniversary event, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA 2014 • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA 2013

MiniDuck • The Other Festival, MIT Media Lab, MA, USA 2013

Chroma District • Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST), MIT 2011

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 8 University of Hawaii Gamelan Ensemble • University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA 2003 – 2008

TALKSAND WORKSHOPS

From Mondrian to Modular Synth: Rendering NIME using Generative Adversarial Networks • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2019.6.6

Music, Wonder, and Machine • NuSom – Núcleo de Pesquisas em Sonologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2019.6.3

Machines for Musical Wonderers • Urban Synergetics Lab, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina, USA 2018.11.15 • Shanghai Virtual Performing Art Lab, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China 2018.11.1 • Electronic Production and Design Department, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, USA 2018.5.8 • MIT Music and Theater Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA 2018.3.8

Workshop on Interactive Audiovisual Systems • Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China 2018.10.31 – 2018.11.3

Workshop on Playful Machines that Make Music • Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany 2018.8.12 – 2018.8.17

Musification Workshop • MITxMake 2018, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2018.4.21 • Electromagnetic Field 2016, Guildford, UK 2016 • 3◦ Festival Música Estranha, São Paulo, Brazil 2015

Music and Technology Panel • Boston New Music Festival, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2017

MM-RT: A Tabletop Musical Instrument for Musical Wonderers • 2017 the NIME conference, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2017

Interaction Design for Musical Wonderers • iZotope, Cambridge, USA 2017 • Industry Lab, Cambridge, USA 2017 • University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, USA 2017

Composing Sonic Play • Studio Art at Dartmouth College, NH, USA 2015 • 3◦ Festival Música Estranha, São Paulo, Brazil 2015 • Asahi Shimbun Head Office, Tokyo, Japan 2014 • FIMPRO 2014, Guadalajara, Mexico 2014

Hyperscore Workshop • Michigan Science Center, Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crescendo Detroit, Detroit, MI 2015

MIT Media Lab Comedy Hack • FabCafe Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2015

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 9 Technology and Robots in Death and the Powers • Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, Texas 2013

Hyperaudience • Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan 2011

AWARDSAND FELLOWSHIPS

Bill Mitchell Design Award 2017 First place winner of the Connected Care Hackathon, sponsored by BNP Paribas Cardiff

People’s Choice Awards for Most Unusual Musical Instrument 2017 MM-RT: Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Learning Innovation Fellowship, MIT Media Lab 2016

Yamaha Fellowship, MIT Media Lab 2012

Best Artwork Award 2011 LOLC: The ACM Creativity and Cognition conference

MEDIA COVERAGE

EPD Students Create Dream Machine, a Virtual Performance Experience 2020.07 Cipher Magazine

Featured in 60 Minutes Over Time: Where tomorrow’s technology is born 2018.04.22 60 Minutes, CBS

At the Guthman Competition, innovative instruments just might predict the future of music 2018.02 Atlanta Magazine

Possibly Robots 2017.01 Cipher Magazine

Music of the (data) spheres 2016.06.28 MIT News

MIT Museum Showcases Student Inventions 2014.07.10 BU Today

New MIT Museum Exhibit Shows Off Students’ Inventions 2014.06.03 Boston Magazine

Sleep No More: What It’s Like Inside the World’s Most Interactive Play 2012.04.24 GIZMODO

MIT gets musical with Arduino-powered DrumTop 2012.04.24 Engaget

Springing up FAST 2011.02.11 MIT News

Curriculum Vitae : Akito van Troyer 10 Compose Your Own 2010.04.22 The New York Times

ACADEMICAND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer: 23rd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) 2020 – present

Meta-Reviewer: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2021

Reviewer: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2019 – present

Reviewer: Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2019

Committee Member: Berklee EPD Education Committee for the Creative Coding Minor 2018 – present

Reviewer: Sound and Music Computing Conference 2016, 2018

Reviewer: NordiCHI’16 2016

Reviewer: ICMC | SMC 2014 Joint Conference 2014

Reviewer: International Computer Music Conference 2013

Reviewer: The Music, Mind, and Invention Workshop 2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Assembly, Bash, C, Common Lisp, Csound, CSS, C++, C#, Faust, Grasshopper 3D, Java, Javascript, Lua, MATLAB, Max, Objective-C++, PHP, , Python, R, Sass, Scala, SQL, SuperCollider, Swift, Visual Basic

Software: Reaper, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Reason, Audacity, RX, Sonic Visualiser, Native Instruments (Reaktor, Kontakt, Battery, Massive, Absynth), Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Processing, Rhinoceros, SolidWorks, OpenSCAD, MeshLab, EAGLE, Arduino, OpenGL, Nginx, Android Studio, XCode, Visual Studio Code, TeX, Papers, Unity

Statistical Analysis: Data Collection, Data Visualization, Null Hypothesis Test, PCA, ANOVA, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning

Fabrication: Computer-controlled Machining (Milling machines, CNC, Laser cutters, Water-jet cutters, Vinyl cutters), Molding and Casting (Injection, Vacuum, Composite), 3D scanning and Printing, Electronics production, Coil Winding, Robotics, CNC machine building

Lab Instrumentation: Oscilloscope, Wave Generator, Logic Analyzer, Multimeter, Microscopes, Photo Documentation, Pumps, Compressor

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Languages: English and Japanese Citizenship: USA and Japan

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