Dr. Michael Zbyszyński is a Researcher Associate in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. Playing woodwinds, live electronics, or things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Brass Liberation Orchestra, Respectable Citizen, Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, Frank Gratkowski, David Wessel, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Capacitor Performance Group, Frances-Marie Uitti, at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Getty Center, and the Montréal Jazz Festival, and has been a resident fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. As a software developer, he has worked at Avid, SoundHound, Cycling ’74, and Keith McMillen Instruments, and as Assistant Director of Pedagogy at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). He holds a PhD in composition from UC Berkeley and studied at the Academy of Music in Kraków on a Fulbright Grant. His work has been included in Make Magazine, the Rhizome Artbase, and on the ARTSHIP recording label.
Archive for November, 2009
selected publications
- Intergalactose Scream: Make a milk-bottle megaphone in Buckley, Patrick and Lily Binns, eds. The Hungry Scientist Handbook (HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 2008) pp. 74-82.
- An Elementary Method for Tablet (NIME Genoa 2008)
- Molecular Gastronomy: Spherify your food for a new culinary experience (Make Magazine, Vol. 14 pp. 149-152, 2008)
- Design and Implementation of CNMAT’s Pedagogical Software (Zbyszyński, Michael, Matthew Wright, and Edmund Campion: ICMC Copenhagen 2007)
- Ball of Sound: Construct a low-cost spherical speaker array (Make Magazine, Vol. 11 pp. 141-144, 2007)
- Electronic Crickets: Create a nighttime chorus by modifying solar yard lamps (Make Magazine, Vol. 11 pp. 154-156, 2007)
- Ten Years of Tablet Musical Interfaces at CNMAT (Zbyszyński, Michael, Matthew Wright, Ali Momeni, and Daniel Cullen: NIME New York 2007)
- Augmenting the Cello (Freed, Adrian, Francis-Marie Uitti, and Michael Zbyszyński: NIME Paris 2006)
- Comparing Musical Control Structures and Signal Processing Strategies for the Augmented Cello and Guitar (Freed, Adrian, Ahm Lee, John Schott, Frances-Marie Uitti, Matt Wright, Michael Zbyszyński: ICMC 2006 New Orleans)
- Control of VST Plugins using OSC (Zbyszyński, Michael and Adrian Freed: ICMC Barcelona 2005)
- OSC Control of VST Plug-ins (Freed, Adrian and Michael Zbyszyński: Open Sound Control Conference, Berkeley, 2004)
- Audio and Gesture Latency Measurements on Linux and OSX (Wright, Matthew, Ryan Cassidy, Michael Zbyszyński: ICMC Miami 2004)
- Considerations for Composition Pedagogy in the American University of the 21st Century
(The Society of Composers, Inc. Newsletter: Fall 2003)
PDF file, article starts on page 4 - Program notes for Bartók’s
Sontata for 2 Pianos and Percussion (1937)
and Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano (1938) - Paper on Louis Andriessen: Aesthetic issues in De Staat, De Tijd, and De Materie(1996)
- Paper on Extended Control Strategies for Woodwind Performance of Electroacoustic Music
(in progress)