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Derek Kwan

artificial intelligence and music

derek.x.kwan@gmail.com | derekxkwan.com

Education

Sept. 2023 - ? PhD, Oregon State University, Artificial Intelligence

2021-2023 MSc, Georgia Institute of Technology, Computer Science

• (GPA: 4.00/4.00)
• Specialization: Interactive Intelligence

2011-2015 DMA, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Music Performance (Percussion)

• (GPA: 3.95/4.00)
• Advisor: Eduardo Leandro

2008-2010 MA, Queens College, City University of New York, Music Performance (Classical Percussion)

• (GPA: 3.975/4.00)

2004-2008 BASc, University of California, Davis, Music (Percussion) and General Mathematics

• (GPA: 3.708/4.00)

Writing

2021 Alexandre Torres Porres, Derek Kwan, Matthew Barber. "Almost 20 years of Cyclone: past, present, and future". Revista Vortex 9 (2), 2021. https://doi.org/10.33871/23179937.2021.9.2.15

2021 Anne Sophie Andersen, Derek Kwan. "Grisey’s 'Talea': Musical Representation As An Interactive 3D Map". New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2021. https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/oiwz8bb7/release/1?readingCollection=71dd0131 (app: https://derekxkwan.github.io/talea-vis/)

2020 Sofy Yuditskaya, Sophia Sun, Derek Kwan."Karaoke of Dreams: A multi-modal neural-network generated music experience". Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe), 2020. https://boblsturm.github.io/aimusic2020/papers/CSMC__MuMe_2020_paper_5.pdf (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYUmCHzzH8)

2016 Alexandre Torres Porres, Derek Kwan, Matthew Barber. "Cloning Max/MSP Objects: a Proposal for the Upgrade of Cyclone". Fifth International Pure Data Convention (PdCon), 2016. https://derekxkwan.com/res/pdcon16_cyclone-paper.pdf

Presentations and Workshops

2021 Karaoke of Dreams: A multi-modal neural-network generated music experience, online

• recorded virtual paper presentation with Sofy Yuditskaya and Sophia Sun for McGill Music Graduate Symposium

2020 TidalCycles Live Coding Workshop, Bombay Beach, CA

• workshop at Mars College on the TidalCycles electronic music live coding environment

2018 socketMusic: wireless, Lewiston, ME

• presentation and performance of new revision of my composition for improvised percussion, electronic sound, and mobile devices at Bates Digital Music Symposium

Teaching

2017 Temporary Lecturer, Music 107A: Introduction to Electronic Music I, UC Davis

• overview of electronic music history, recording studio basics, and fixed-media composition

Other Professional Experience

2020-2021 Music and Digital Art Curator, Art Music Lit Space, online

• write content (curation and exhibition statements) for the virtual exhibition space

2013-2015 Lab Assistant and Programmer, SBU Teaching Learning Lab, Stony Brook NY

• Working under Paul St. Denis with SBU faculty on interactive digital media projects investigating novel methods of human-computer interaction and full-stack web application development for class-oriented learning tools and data visualization

2013 Audio/Video Collections Manager, SBU Music Library, Stony Brook, NY

• Archival activities for the music library’s analog and digital media

2012-2013 Graduate Assistant, SBU Computer Music Studio, Stony Brook, NY

• Live sound reinforcement and technology management for music department concerts and setting up and running a new campus recording studio

2011-2012 Graduate Assistant, SBU Contemporary Chamber Players, Stony Brook, NY

• Organization and planning of concerts and rehearsals

2010-2011 Private Instructor in Percussion (freelance), Flushing, NY

Fellowships and Residencies

2022 Composer Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2020 Project Participant and Contributor, Art-a-Hack Dancedemic, New York, NY / online

• remote hackathon in conjunction with Battery Dance Festival (https://artahack.io/projects/hieroglyph/)

2010 Performance Fellow, Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute, North Adams, MA

2008 Performance Fellow, soundSCAPE Composer and Performance Exchange, Pavia, Italy

2007 Performance Fellow, International Marimba Festival, Salzburg, Austria

Exhibitions

2020 Small File Media Festival, Vancouver, BC

• glitch video bombaybeach featured at online festival

2019 Music Makers Art Exhibition at Hacker Lab, Sacramento, CA

• featuring my computer-generated visual art studious overachieving, polyhealth, and catmoticon portraits alongside other visual art by musicians

2019 The Brickhouse Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

• month-long curation of work alongside work by Tavarus Blackmon and Boris Allenou

Honors and Awards

2008 Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Davis

Relevant Graduate Coursework

Georgia Tech

• Deep Learning
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge-Based AI
• Computer Vision
• Robotics: AI Techniques
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Educational Technology
• Computer Networks
• Software Development Process

Projects

2022 Rhythm OLMITS

• an intelligent tutoring system for teaching musical rhythm performance originally developed for Georgia Tech's EdTech class (paper: https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/67085, code: https://github.com/derekxkwan/rhythm_olmits)

Skills

• General programming - Python, (Scikit-learn, Numpy, Matplotlib, PyTorch, OpenCV), C, Java, JavaScript, (Node.js, Electron, React), ClojureScript
• Audio programming - Pure Data, SuperCollider, TidalCycles, various DAWs, (Logic, Ardour)
• Other creative computing - Processing, basic physical computing with Arduino
• Git, daily use of Linux