Current Graduate STUDENTS
Frieda Abtan
Website | Freida_Abtan@brown.edu
Freida Abtan is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living in Providence, Rhode Island. She has played with, and created visual shows for bands such as Nurse with Wound, and has presented her sound and visual work at festivals across Canada. Having completed Bachelor’s degrees in both Computer Science and Fine Art, she is currently completing her Ph.D at Brown University in the MEME program.
Jordan Bartee
Website | Jordan_Bartee@brown.edu
Jordan Bartee is an electronic composer and multimedia sound artist whose work focuses on issues surrounding identity, memory, time, and post-data culture. Jordan cut his teeth in the TIMARA program at Oberlin College before relocating to the LA area to pursue a Masters in Experimental Sound Practice at the California Institute of the Arts. An interest in subverting commercial sound production led him into the field of custom software and circuit bent hardware. Working primarily with artificial intelligence systems and re-wired video game consoles, Jordan produces audio-visual pieces for both live performance and recording.
Peter Bussigel
Website | Peter_Bussigel@brown.edu
Peter writes music for accordions, orchestras, film, tape, trumpets, buckets, puppets, chamber groups, voices, videos, robots, dancers, bands, drunks, theatre, galleries, cell phones, parades, children, pie tins, improvisers, inventors, headphones, and toys. He also makes videos and short sound films for concerts, installations, and small wine parties.
Robbie Byron
Website | Robbie_Byron@brown.edu
Robbie is a multimedia artist working with sound, painting, sculpture, cast glass, textiles, and video to create interactive installations and audiovisual art that explores the relationship between the organic and the synthetic, often through the construction of fantasy worlds and cyborg technologies. Drawing inspiration from natural forms, from molecular mechanisms to the five elements of traditional philosophy, he attempts to understand through his art the hidden structures of manifest nature.
Bevin Kelley
Website | Bevin_Kelley@brown.edu
Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) is an electronic musician/multimedia composer. Her performances are loosely narrative, incorporating live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume. She holds degrees in English, Violin Performance, Electronic Music and Recording Media, and Veterinary Nursing. She has released four solo albums. Bevin performs in the duo Blectum From Blechdom, and was in the audio/visual band Sagan. Her MFA thesis was a series of pieces based on Philip K. Dick's short story 'The Preserving Machine', in which sheet music is transformed into creatures and back again.
Lyn Goeringer
Website | Lyn_Goeringer@brown.edu
Lyn came to Brown in 2006 with an interdisciplinary arts background in music composition, gestural performance, film, sound and installation art. Her research focus at this time is in the use of Location as instrument, the distillation and orchestration of the essential components of space, sound, and light in a performative context through the use of given architectural and physical phenomenon.
Brian Knoth
Website | Brian_Knoth@brown.edu
Brian Knoth is a composer/instrumentalist and digital media artist/researcher specializing in experimental sound art/music, moving image and new interfaces. His work explores cross-sensory dynamics and computer mediated interaction. This work is realized in several formats including installation, audiovisual composition, and live performance.
Kevin Patton
Website | Kevin_Patton@brown.edu
Kevin Patton is a composer, guitarist, and experimental sound performer interested in exploring the increasingly nebulous borderlands between humans and machines in performance. The integration of interactive electronic music and machine improvisation into traditional performance contexts is at the center of his practice.
Jacob Richman
Website | Jacob_Richman@brown.edu
Jacob Richman is a multimedia composer whose work explorers the relationship between sight and sound in live performance. His pieces mix live-processed moving images (film and video), music, and sound to create interactive, multimedia settings in which performers can interact. He has played jazz bass and classical trombone since his youth, and graduated with a joint BA in music composition and film/video from Harvard University.
Matthew Warne
Website | Matthew_Warne@brown.edu
Matthew’s interactive work joins the call for the composer's emergence from the studio for the realization of computer music live in cooperation with performers. His compositional work frequently focuses on the design of simple electronic or computational processes which amplify some aspect of a sound which might otherwise be considered secondary.
