Seminars and Conferences

"Technology & Aesthetics." Invited paper presented at the Annual Computer Music conference held in Berlin, Germany, August - September 2000.

"Understanding Foucault’s Space of Freedom in Musical Creation." Paper presented at the Annual Computer Music conference held in Berlin, Germany, August - September 2000.

"Music and Responsibility." Paper presented at the Annual Computer Music conference held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 1997.

"The Possible/Real & the Virtual/Actual in Computer Music." Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at the MIT Media Lab, July 1997.

"What is a Contemporary ?: Crossreading Boulez's 2nd Piano Sonata and Beethoven's HammerKlavier Op 106." Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 1996.

"Flipping the Coin:the Cultural Side of Latour's Symmetrical Anthropology." Paper presented at the annual ICA conference in Chicago, May 1996.

"Assessing Computer Music with Latour's 'Hypermicrosociology' of Technology." Paper presented at the Annual Computer Music conference held at the Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, September 1995.

"Chaotic Variations in M on a Theme by Deleuze." Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at the University of California, Berkeley, June 1995.

"Music: a Challenge to Models of Cognition." Paper presented at the Third International Conference for Music perception and cognition, Université de Liège, Belgium. July 23-27, 1994.

"Breaking the Sound Barrier." Paper presented at the First International Conference of Acoustic Ecology, Banff Center for the Arts. August 1993.

"The Dirichlet's Conditions of Performance: Principle of Music Decomposition." Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 1993.

"Multidrop Shipments: a Solution Using Clustering Technique and a Posteriori Optimization of Marginal Costs." Paper presented at the National Join ORSA/TIMS conference in Chicago, May 1993.

"Computer Music and the (Post)modern." Paper presented at the International Computer Music Conference held at the San Jose State University, San Jose, October 1992

"Music/Technology: Reflection on/of(f) Knowledge." Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at UCLA, Los Angeles, February 1992

"Recent Advance in Machine Cognition and its Impact on Computer Music." Paper presented at the International Computer Music Conference held at McGill University, Montréal, October 1991

"How many Constellations are there in the sky?: an Inquiry Concerning Musical Research." Paper presented at Resonant Intervals, an interdisciplinary conference held at the university of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. May 1991.

"Formal System and Music Recognition: can Computers Understand Music." Paper presented at the 1990 ICMC conference in Glasgow, Scotland, September 1990.

"Use of Jelineck's Statistical Acoustic Processor in Music Recognition." Paper presented at the 1989 IEEE workshop on applications of signal processing to audio and acoustics, October 1989.

"The Use of SAS, OMNI and MPSX in Scheduling Fiberglass Insulation: A Combinatorial + 2 MIP Formulation of the Cutting Stock Problem." Magen User Group XXII. San Diego, CA. August 1988.

"Design Requirements in a Music Editor." Paper presented at the 13th annual Northeast Bioengineering conference, April 1987.

"Survey of Speech Recognition System Methodologies." Graduate seminar presented to the school of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. April 1985.

"Analytical Modeling of the Elastic Plastic Transition in Ceramics." Paper presented at the 5th international conference on erosion by Solid and Liquid impacts. Cambridge, England, September 1979.

"The Compositional Principles of Xenakis' Stochastic Music." Graduate seminar presented to advanced composition students at the Pennsylvania State University, May 1975.