w at williambrent dot com
William’s creative work encompasses experimental music performance projects and various non-musical undertakings, such as the compilation of conflated idioms presented at [
www.conflations.com]. He holds a Ph.D in music from UC, San Diego, where he studied in the computer music area with Miller Puckette, F.R. Moore, and Shlomo Dubnov. He has also earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees in Composition, studying with Peter Hatch, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, and Pauline Oliveros.
His electroacoustic performance projects combine human- robotic- and computer-realized sound, and are controlled by software written in the
[
SuperCollider] and
[
Pd] programming environments. In addition to concert-based projects, William is also active in the areas of remote network music performance, and interactive sound installation. Current research areas are signal processing techniques for timbre identification, and the relationship between gesture and sound in the performance of live computer-based music. He is the author of timbreID: an open source library of Pd objects designed for real-time timbre analysis and identification.
William is an Assistant Professor in the Audio Technology program at American University in Washington DC.
