Assistant Professor of Music
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College
- Past
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- Lecturer in Digital Programmes at Brunel University
- Research officer, developer. at Goldsmiths College
- Research officer and developer. at University of East Anglia
- Director of Research at Luminas Limited
- Education
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- University of East Anglia
- University of East Anglia
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David Plans Casal’s Summary
David Plans Casal (http://davidcasal.com) is a musician and researcher. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and music. He has given talks and concerts at IRCAM, the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, the Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon and the New Music Festival at Dartmouth College, several London venues including Ray's Jazz Cafe, The Shunt Vaults and Goldsmiths College, and other international venues. His current focus uses evolutionary computation techniques, in particular genetic co-evolution, as applied to the frequency domain using MPEG7 techniques, in order to create reflexive systems that mediate between an improvisor and their unconscious mind. He recently gave papers and performances at the International Computer Music Conference ('07, '08), the European Conference on Artificial Life, the Darwin Symposium, and the Computer Arts Society in London. His teaching focuses on software and hardware practices for Digital Musics, and he is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College (http://www.dartmouth.edu). He produces music under his own name using live algorithms and improvisation with home-made instruments, and a few aliases (subplan, peakstop) help him explore spaced-out electronic that sometimes resembles the weirder edges of dubstep, a genre that took over him while living in London.
David Plans Casal’s Specialties:
Research, project management, music composition, software environments for music improvisation and virtual environments.
XML, XHTML, usability (WAI), CSS, Cocoon, C++, Puredata, MPEG7 (description and extraction in XML Schema-driven applications).
David Plans Casal’s Experience
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Assistant Professor of Music
Dartmouth College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
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Lecturer in Digital Programmes
Brunel University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2006 — July 2009 (2 years 10 months)
Convenor for the Sonic Arts BA degree.
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Research officer, developer.
Goldsmiths College
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)
MPEG7 Audio software development in C++, Ruby and the Puredata framework, for an EU Comission project : New Media for a New Millenium (NM2).
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Research officer and developer.
University of East Anglia
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
1998 — October 2006 (8 years )
Responsible for online audio archive curation and software development, consultancy.
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Director of Research
Luminas Limited
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2002 — January 2006 (4 years )
David Plans Casal’s Education
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University of East Anglia
PhD , Electroacoustic Composition , 2004 — 2008
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University of East Anglia
BaHons , Music , 1998 — 2001
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David Plans Casal’s Interests:
Chewing toys with my son TJ, computer music and improvisation, large-scale music retrieval for online archives, real-time synthesis and feature extraction in MPEG7.
David Plans Casal’s Honors:
Honorary Research Fellow, University of East Anglia. 2004 - present.
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