Research Presentations

Research Presentations/Professional Development Workshops (Invited)

    • March 6, 2026, Electrowave: Rocky Mountain Electroacoustic Music Festival, Ent Center for the Arts, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Panelist, AI, Ethics and Music.
    • September 30, 2025, lecture, at UC San Diego, graduate students. Lecture on my work integrating research and creative practice.
    • July 8-9, 2024 Led a two day professional development seminar for Rockwood School District (St. Louis, MO) teachers on Music Technology.
    • March 22-24, 2024, Central Regional Audio Student Summit, Webster University, panelist for two panels: March 23, Tools Of The Trade: Plug-In Showcase, and March 24, Perspectives On Plug-In Development
    • April 8, 2023, UC San Diego, lecture, Dr. Stephanie Richards, large undergraduate class, “The Electric Music of Miles Davis,” on Miles Davis’s electric bands and their influence on my work. Virtual.
    • March 31-April 2, 2023, Central Regional Audio Student Summit, Webster University, panelist for two panels: April 1, Finding Your Workflow with Technology and Perspectives on Plugin Development
    • 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)

    • May 2026, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Hamburg DE, paper, Building Live Loopers with Max
    • June 2025, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Boston, paper, Developing a Pedagogy and Framework for the Analysis of Contemporary Electronic Music, Boston (virtual)
    • April 4, 2025, Audio Engineering Society: Breaking Barriers in Audio, presented The Death of “Industry Standard,” (virtual)
    • January 24, 2025, Splice Festival, Presentation, Enter Agency: Interagency and Intra-action, Kalamazoo, MI
    • January 2025 Missouri Music Educators Association, More Hands-On Technology-Based Performance: Teaching with free and/or inexpensive software
    • November 8, 2024, Association for Technology in Music Instruction-Paper Presentation, Developing a Curiosity-centered Pedagogy in Music Technology, Washington, DC
    • June 19, 2024 presentation on pedagogy at NYCEMF, presentation, in-progress paper, Developing a Pedagogy and Framework for the Analysis of Contemporary Electronic Music.
    • 2024, presentation at Missouri Music Educators Association, Hands-On Technology: Teaching Technology-based Performance.
    • 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