SPENCER TOPEL | ACADEME | MUSIC AND SOUND ART

Herbert H.C., Topel, S. "Nonlinear Acoustic Synthesis in Augmented Musical Instruments." Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017, pp. 358-363.

Chang, Herbert H.C., Topel, Spencer. Sideband: An Acoustic Amplitude Modulation Synthesizer,Proceedings of Joint WOCMAT-IRCAM Forum, Taiwan, 51-56, 2016.

Chang H., Topel S. "Electromagnetically Actuated Acoustic Amplitude Modulation Synthesis." Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Brisbane, AUS, 2016, pp.8-13.

A. Rieger and S. Topel, “Driftwood: redefining sound sculpture controllers,” in Proceedings of the international conference on new interfaces for musical expression, Brisbane, Australia, 2016, pp. 158-159.

D. Rector and S. Topel, “Internally actuated drums for expressive performance,” in Proceedings of the international conference on new interfaces for musical expression, London, United Kingdom, 2014, pp. 395-398.

Fan J., Topel, S. SONICTAIJI: A Mobile Instrument For Taiji Performance, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2014), New York, NY., 22-25 June 2014.

Grani, F., Serafin, S., de Gotzen, A., Overholt, D., & Topel, S. (2013, July). Investigating the relationship between pressure force and acoustic waveform in footstep sounds. In Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2013 18th International Conference on (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

“Extensible Spectralism: Revealing Latent Structures in Music Audio for Composition, Analysis, and Retrieval”. D.M.A. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2012.

Q. Kong, A. Sarroff, S. Topel, M.A. Casey "Getting Into the Groove with Hierarchical Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis"In Proc. Of NIPS Workshop, Granada, Spain, 2011.

S. S. Topel, M.A Casey. "Elementary Sources: Latent Component Analysis for Music Composition"In Proc. Of ISMIR, Miami, United States, 2011.

M.A. Casey, S. Topel. “Timbre-Based Percussive Rhythm Classification and Retrieval”. In Proc. Of ISMIR, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2010.

K. Agres, S. Topel, S. Moeson, M. Spivey. “An Auditory Twist On Visual Search Using Head-Movement Controlled Ambisonics”, Proc. Of ICMC, New York, NY, 2010.

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scholarly publications

interviews and features

Interviews

Interview with Rudiger Meyer (Schott, Edition S) in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2013.

Teaching

invited talks

"Transient-Transcience: Finding the Sound in Art" keynote, ZKM Karlsruhe, September, 2017.

"Plurality of Transduction in Modes of Sound and Actuation" Paper Presentation, Columbia University, April, 2017.

“Scalable Art: Open Source for Sound Art and Installation”Composer and Technology Seminar Talk, CRMMT, November, 2014.

Composer Seminar Talk, Wesleyan University, October, 2013.

Interactivity Workshop, DKDM, Copenhagen, February, 2013.

Composer Seminar, DKDM, Copenhagen, February, 2013.

Guest Composer/Performer at the "State of the Art" Festival, Cornell University, April, 2011.

Three Workshops on Live Performance Interaction. Brandeis University, February, 2011.

“Finding the Groove: A Latent Rhythm Stream Approach to Audio Analysis”. Univ. of Virginia, November, 2010.

“Where's the Groove? Probe-Tone Analogies in Rhythm Perception”. Dartmouth College, July, 2009.

“Ambisonics, Wave-Field Synthesis, and other Spatialization Techniques”, CUNY Mathematics, October, 2008.