Research Presentations (Invited)
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- June 26-28, 2023, June 26-28, 2023 Led three days of workshops at Tecnológico de Monterrey (via Zoom) with the team of music technology professors from across multiple campuses.
- September 30, 2022, Guest speaker to the Minnesota College and University Council for Music on the development of a university/college music technology program.
- September 27, 2022, Ableton Educator Series, presented on developing audio plugins in Max For Live. International, virtual.
- Kleppe Visiting Artist Lecture Series, with Dr. Eric Honour presented to UCM/s Art and Design lecture series, presentation on visual programming for arts in Max/MSP.
- April 1, 2022, Central Regional Audio Student Summit, Webster University, panelist for two panels: Friday April 1 Current Trends in Audio Software and Saturday, April 2, Unexpected Paths: Unique Careers in Audio
- February 13, 2022, Lecture/Discussion on my “Why Reaper” project for the Art and Technology students at University of Baltimore
- October 6, 2021, Lecture/Discussion on technology and improvisation, graduate students, IUPUI
- October 5, 2021, Lecture/Discussion on technology and improvisation, undergrads, IUPUI
- April 21, 2021, Lecture/Discussion on technology and improvisation, Duquesne University
- September 2020, Lecture/Discussion on my use of music technology in creative practice, Ball State University.
- April 21, 2020, Lecture/Discussion, On my use of music technology in creative practice, Max Seminar, plus professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students., The Ohio State University. Preceded by a concert (live streamed) of my work.
- February 11, 2020, Seminar, KaiGen Software and the intersection of scholarship and creative practice, Graduate Forum, Integrative Studies, Music, UC San Diego. (Part of concert event.)
- February 10, 2020, Lecture, Music Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Music Forum, UC San Diego. (Part of concert event.)
- November 22, 2019, Lecture, Presented on my compositional technique to graduate student composers and faculty, Conservatori de Música Jesus Guridi, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain
- October 3, 2019, inner sOUndscapes, University of Oklahoma, Presented on my compositional technique to graduate and undergraduate student composers and faculty, Norman, OK
- February 8, 2019, University of Minneapolis, Presented on my compositional technique to graduate student composers and faculty, Minneapolis, MN
- November 22, 2018, Master Class (Improvising with Technology, Conservatorio de Música Jesús Guridi, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain
- May 22, 2018, El Grup d’Etnomusicologia, Institut Catalá D'Antropologia, http://www.antropologia.cat, Barcelona, Spain
- Presentation, on my since released article, "Improvising Technology, Constructing Virtuosity."
- February 22, 2018, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. KaiBorg (Jeff Kaiser and David Borgo) presented our latest recording release and the technology we used to perform on the disc.
- November 15, 2017, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, (via Skype). A discussion of my work as an artist who improvises with technology to Prof. Maja Cerar’s class.
- March 20, 2017, Brooklyn College, CUNY, (Skype)
- Presented to graduate students in Douglas Geer’s Interactive Programming Course about my recent performance in NYC and my new KaiGen software.
- February 1, 2017, Art Institute, San Diego, (Skype)
- Presented to students of Trevor Henthorn’s Interactive Audio class on my latest work and software.
- February 2017, Art Music Technology Festival, San Diego
- Panelist, Data Visualization and Sonification. ALSO: “Made Audible and KaiGen: Probability-based Electronica.” Multiple venues, AMTfestival.com
- November 2015, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
- Guest Lecturer on record labels and the current state of the music industry.
- December 2014, University of California, Berkeley
- UC Working Group in the Philosophy of Perception. Performance/Discussion of electro-acoustic improvisation. The performance was followed by an all-day discussion of embodiment theories and technologically mediated improvisation.
- September 2014, Ohio University
- Guest Lecturer on improvisation and technology, Introduction to the Arts: Object and Events
- March 2012, February 2011, California Institute of the Arts
- Visiting Artist/Lecturer: Composer-Performer Colloquium.
- October 2011, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
- Visiting Artist/Lecturer: Improvisation and technology, in addition to individual work with students.
- April 2013, April 2012, The Jazzschool, Berkeley, CA
- Visiting Lecturer.
- November 2009, KaiBorg, performed/presented at Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California San Diego
- May 2009, KaiBorg performed at the grand opening concerts for Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD
- September 2008, University of Göteborg, Sweden
- KaiBorg performed and presented. In addition, performed at the popular jazz venue, Club Brötz.
Research Presentations (Refereed)
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- October 2023, Association for Technology in Music Instruction/College Music Society. Presented “The Death of ‘Industry Standard’”
- April 29, 2023, Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music, PEER Lab, University of California, presented “Arcana and Metaphor: Value, Poetry, Myth and Ideology.”
- January 2023, Missouri Music Educators Association. Presented “Hands-On Digital Audio Workstations:Teaching with free and/or inexpensive software.”
- March 23, 2022, Southern Illinois University, Two presentations: Lecture on my technology, Master Class in Improvisation
- January 28, 2022, presentation at MMEA (Missouri Music Educators) with Dr. Alex Smith, Integrating Music Technology into your Music Program.
- November 9, 2018, Panelist: Teaching Music Technology in Diverse Interdisciplinary Classrooms, Jacksonville University
- June 20, 2017, NYC EMF
- "Changing, Blurring, Decentering: Community and Electroacoustic Musicians." An examination of electroacoustic musicians as an epistemic community.
- October 28, 2017, Musicacoustica-Beijing, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China
- Lecture Series: "KaiGen Plugins: Generative and Interactive Software." A presentation on the history, influences, and current versions of my generative software.
- April 20-22, 2017, SEAMUS, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, St. Cloud State University
- Panelist, Surfing the Hyperinstrument: Negotiating Expressivity in Electroacoustic Performance, Maja Cerar, Chair
- Paper, Virtuosity, Machines, and Interagency: The Construction and Location of Skill in Contemporary Electro-Acoustic Improvisation
- December 2015, “Re-Imagining Virtuosity: Conceptions and Practices in Contemporary Electro-acoustic Improvisation.” Panelist, Improvising with Electronics at the Interface of Sound, Subjectivity and Significance,
University of Texas at Austin, Society for Ethnomusicology 60th Annual Meeting - February 2015, “Constructing Virtuosity: Conceptions of Skill in Contemporary Electro-Acoustic Improvisation.” University of San Diego, Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawaii Chapter
- June 2014, “Trumpet-Trumpet,” Jeff Kaiser and Dave Ballou. Trumpet and new technology, concert/demonstration. The New School, New York, International Society for Improvised Music
- 2011, “‘I gotta have bread or respect’: Touring improvised music” and panelist, “The Cost of Free Jazz.” University of California Los Angeles, EMP Pop Conference
- 2010, “The roots of electro-acoustic improvised music in the 1960s.” University of Michigan Ann Arbor, International Society for Improvised Music
- KaiBorg performed and presented their work.
- University of California San Diego, UC Initiative for Research in the Arts (2010)
- University of California Santa Cruz, International Society for Improvised Music conference (2009)
- University of California Riverside, UC Initiative for Research in the Arts (2008)
- University of Colorado Denver, International Society for Improvised Music conference (2008)
- 2009, “Value, poetry, myth and ideology in John Zorn’s Arcana.”
- University of California Santa Cruz, International Society for Improvised Music conference
- 2007, “Building a bridge between your traditional instrument and computer using Max/MSP.”
- Northwestern University, Chicago, International Society for Improvised Music conference
- 2006, “How I lost 150 lbs. thanks to MaxMSP!”
- University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
- 2006, “Moving away from hardware-based electronics in live performances.”
- Electro-Music.com Festival and Conference, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA