Curriculum Vitæ - Anders Øland

Contact Anders Oland Information Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

e: [email protected] w: andersoland.com

Nationality Danish

Gender Male

Abstract I am a Grammy award-winning music producer and songwriter - turned computer scientist. I wrote my first song at age seven and my first computer program when I was ten; now I am realizing my old dream of doing research in Computational Music Production (CMP). As a teenager I skipped out of high school to work professionally with programming and music for games on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. It was in relation to this that my interest in machine learning was ignited - and I ordered my first book on neural networks from the MIT Press. When I was twenty years old I started my own music studio, and only two years later one of my songs became a worldwide number one hit.

Research Computational Music Production, Deep Learning, Blind Source Separation, Musical Signal Process- Interests ing, Musical Human-Computer Interaction, Large-Scale Distributed Learning, Music Information Retrieval.

Education Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Ph.D. Computer Science August 2012 – Present • Expected graduation: Spring 2018 IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark B.Sc. Software Development August 2009 – July 2012

Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark Musical Training Soloist in The Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir 1984 – 1991

At age 9 I was accepted into this school for musically gifted children, www.sag.dk/sangskolen. Here I received classical musical training in theory, singing, and piano - for ten hours each week - on top of the regular education. Also, I skipped the 8th grade and went directly from the 7th to the 9th grade.

Music Grammy Award, Club hit of the year, 2000 Awards Danish Music Award, Dance Album of the year, 2001 Dance Award, Album of the year, 2000 Danish DJ Award, 2000 Danish DJ Award, 2001 Music “Doctor Jones”, AQUA, Worldwide no. 1 hit single, 1997 1988 – Present Selected Work “Dooh Dooh”, Barcode Brothers, Grammy award-winning hit single, 1999 Please refer to website for more information “Around the World”, AQUA, Worldwide hit single, 2000 “Flute”, Barcode Brothers, International hit single, 2000 “Swipe Me”, Barcode Brothers, Platinum-selling, award-winning album, 2000 “SMS”, Barcode Brothers, International hit single, 2002 “BB02”, Barcode Brothers, Hit album, 2002 “V-Songs”, Anders Oland, Solo album, 2004 “SOMETIMEBOY”, Anders Oland, Solo album, 2009 “Industrial Rebound”, Anders Oland, C64 game music, 1991 Zonix of Bonzai aka Anders Oland, C64 demoscene music, 1988 - 1991 http://www.myspace.com/lasnissen, Recorded & engineered by me in my studio, 2007 http://www.myspace.com/dissingoglas, Recorded & engineered by me in my studio, 2008

Music Universal Music, Copenhagen, Denmark Professional Artist, Barcode Brothers February 1999 – 2004 Experience

Warner/Chappell Music, Copenhagen, Denmark Songwriter 2000 – Present

XL Talent Partnership, London, England Artist & Producer 1999 – 2007

Barcode Brothers, Copenhagen, Denmark Producer, Songwriter, Singer & Musician 1999 – Present

O-Land Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark Studio Owner & Engineer 1995 – 2009

Musikhuset Aage Jensen, Copenhagen, Denmark Consultant in Musical Instruments & Studio Equipment 1994 – 1996

Teaching Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Teaching Assistant Fall 2013 Deep Learning (graduate level)

IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Teaching Assistant February 2011 – 2012 Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in: • Algorithms & Datastructures • Analysis, Design, and Software Architecture (taught in English) • Object-oriented Software Construction • IT Foundations (taught in English) Work has included lecturing, grading, assessment, exercise assistance as well as various pedagogical challenges. Kløverengen, Copenhagen, Denmark Music Production (for young psychiatric patients) 2007

Gentofte School, Copenhagen, Denmark Music for children (9 - 11 years) 1996 – 1997

Previous IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Research & Bachelor’s Thesis January 2012 – June 2012 Projects In my bachelor’s thesis I explored different approaches to real-time polyphonic pitch-detection for the harpsichord - intended to be used in a computer accompaniment system (developed by Richard Stern @ CMU).

Supervised by Prof. Roger B. Dannenberg @ Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Joseph Kiniry @ IT University of Copenhagen

IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Machine Learning and its Applications to Music Fall 2011 Explorations in various applications of machine learning to music. Supervised by Professor Rasmus Pagh @ IT University of Copenhagen.

IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark AutomaTones Fall 2010 Using multiple synchronized cellular automata to interactively generate music & sound. Automata can be viewed and edited on external hardware (Novation Launchpad) and controlled via MIDI. Output can be patched to any MIDI device, and thus be used to control virtually anything. Ideal for iPhone implementation, eg. for use in laptop orchestras. Read abstract & more here. Supervised by Dr. Joseph Kiniry @ IT University of Copenhagen.

IT Interactivision, Silkeborg, Denmark Professional Game Programming, Music & Sound Design 1991 – 1992 Experience

Musikhuset Aage Jensen (now 4sound.dk), Copenhagen, Denmark Development & Implementation of Sales System 1995 – 1996

Programming MATLAB, C/C++, C#, F#, Java, Julia, Assembly, and more. Skills I wrote my first BASIC program at age ten, and was a part of the legendary C64 demoscene for many years. Please refer to my website for more information

Musical Skills I wrote my first song at age seven, and I have more than 14 years of professional experience in songwriting, music production and performance (500+ concerts). I sing and play the guitar and the piano, and I have extensive hands-on experience with a vast amount of DAWS, plug-ins, recording gear, synths, samplers et cetera. Voluntary Student Political Union @ ITU, Copenhagen, Denmark Work Chairman of the Board 2009 – 2010 Member of the Board 2009 – 2012 Co-founder

IBM & Frivilligfredag.dk , Copenhagen, Denmark Planning & recruiting 2011 A website for “volunteer Friday” – an annual national celebration of volunteer work. Held by www.frivilligraadet.dk