PI: Alexandria Smith
Areas of Research or Creative Practice: interactive music, instrument design, improvised music, audio engineering, and musicology.
Praised by The New York Times for her “appealingly melancholic sound” and “entertaining array of distortion effects,” Alexandria Smith is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, trumpeter, and scholar who enjoys working at the intersection of all these disciplines. Her creative practice and research interests focus on building, designing, theorizing, and performing with interactive systems and translating embodied, biological data into interactive sonic and visual environments. Her research has been presented at AES, ICMC, AMS, SEAMUS, the Guelph Jazz Colloquium, MoxSonic, and more.
Alexandria Smith is an active performer/com in New York City, New Orleans, and Atlanta. As an improviser/multi-media artist, Smith has had a residency at the Stone NYC and feature recitals on the Future of New Trumpet (FONT) Festival West, and the VI Semana Internacional de Improvisación in Ensenada, Baja California. She has been a performer at the FONT Festival NYC, Improv Night at the Stone, and the Either/OR Spring Festival. In Atlanta she has performed a sold out performance at the Ear Pollen Music Series with Klimchak, Kirkwood Ballers Club (headliner Ryosuke Kiyasu), ATL NoWords Festival, ATL SoundNOW Contemporary Festival, Emory Comp Fest, and more.
Alexandria is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she leads the IMPACT lab.
Alexandriasmithmusic.com
Jeffrey Albert
Areas of Research or Creative Practice: improvisation and interaction, jazz performance, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio production
Jeff Albert’s areas of research and creative practice include improvisation and interaction, jazz performance, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio production. He has performed in concerts and festivals in the U.S and throughout Europe, and contributed as a performer, producer, or engineer on over 60 recordings, including the 2017 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. He has been named a Rising Star in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and his album Unanimous Sources was named a Top 10 album of 2020 by Jan Garelick in the Boston Globe.
Albert received his B.M. from Loyola University New Orleans, and his M.M. from the University of New Orleans. In May of 2013, he became the first graduate of the PhD program in Experimental Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University, where he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs).
Social Media: https://linktr.ee/jeffalbert