w at williambrent dot com; wbrent at ucsd dot edu; william at conflations 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 has earned Bachelor of
Music and Master of Arts degrees in Composition, studying with Peter Hatch, Fred Frith,
Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, and Pauline Oliveros. Currently living in the San Diego area with
his wife and two children, he is a PhD candidate in computer music at the University of
California, San Diego, where he studies with Miller Puckette, Shlomo Dubnov, and David
Borgo.
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 traditional 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.
William also works as a recording engineer at UCSD’s Warren Music Studio.
