2026
Orpheus Institute, Ghent
Complexity, memory, power: on the cultural and societal impact of resonating artistic-research methodologies
2025
Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt
Meta+phenomenology I: a taxonomy of learning experiences
IACAP/AISB Conference @ University of Twente, Enchede
Meta+phenomenology I: a taxonomy of learning experiences
2024
Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt
Contextualizing the siren
Complexity, memory, power: on the cultural and societal impact of resonating artistic-research methodologies
Mozarteum, Salzburg
Contextualizing the siren
Complexity, memory, power: on the cultural and societal impact of resonating artistic-research methodologies
Chintete @ Cantina La Dominica, CDMX
A brief but not necessarily abbreviated history of the domino problem
2023
Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Rīga
A few more thoughts on modulations in harmonic space
MPLab, Liepajā
Countercoding: a few thoughts about data ethics and music (or... are your algorithms healthy? - part III)
B-Circle, Berlin
A brief but not necessarily abbreviated history of the domino problem
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City (with Alex Bruck)
Workshop on Microtonal Practices (5 sessions)
2022
Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart
Challenges of Analog Visual Cryptography: a history of the domino problem
B-Circle, Berlin (with Catherine Lamb)
Total forms and other totalities
Institute of Sonology @ the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Countercoding: a few thoughts about data ethics and music (or... are your algorithms healthy? - part II)
California Institute of the Arts
Countercoding: a few thoughts about data ethics and music (or... are your algorithms healthy? - part I)
2020
University of California, Santa Cruz
A few things I do
Simpom 6 @ UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro
A few more thoughts about Leibniz: the prediction of harmonic distance in harmonic space
2019
ELAK, course for electroacoustic and experimental music @ the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
This is a talk about how things fit together
Trinity College, London (with Robert Blatt)
This talk has a high chance of failure: performer, score, environment, and listener as algorithmic systems
Guildhall School of Music, London (with Robert Blatt)
This talk has a high chance of failure: performer, score, environment, and listener as algorithmic systems
Instituto Internacional en Madrid
This is a talk about how things fit together
Apotheose Series @ Eckartshaldenweg 7, Stuttgart
Artist conversation (with afterparty at Korridor Bar, Stuttgart with DJ Silent Lover)
Engaging with Histories Festival @ Rampe, Stuttgart
A prehistory of the domino problem (lecture / performance)
2018
Haifa University
On modulations in harmonic space
2017
The Box, Los Angeles
On James Tenney’s Changes for six harps
California Institute of the Arts
On James Tenney’s Changes for six harps
Institución Universitaria Bellas Artes, Cartagena
Minimalismo conceptual y la verdad sobre el ruido
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin
Minimalismo conceptual y la verdad sobre el ruido
Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes Medellín
Un nuevo virtuosidad
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota
Shape and Structure: a few good ideas on form and detail
Chawpi Laboratorio, Quito
Minimalismo conceptual y la verdad sobre el ruido
Universidad de las Artes de Guayaquil
Cuando cosas va diferente: entre el concepto y la realidad
Sono Centro Cultural de Cuenca
La Guitarra en la Experimentacion Sonora
2016
Università degli Studi di Torino
Over 300 years ago, Leibniz predicted many current trends in music: a lecture / performance
Universität der Künste Berlin
From Leibniz to Tenney: on computability, structure, and harmony
University of Leeds
From Leibniz to Tenney: on computability, structure, and harmony
University of Huddersfield
Over 300 years ago, Leibniz predicted many current trends in music: a lecture / performance
Bath Spa University
On the domain of an open work: cardinality, intersection, and computability
On minimal resources, laziness, and style
Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia
On minimal resources, laziness, and style
CENIDIM - Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Over 300 years ago, Leibniz predicted many current trends in music: a lecture / performance
Universidad de Guadalajara
Combinatorial optimization and art: from Leibniz to Beckett and beyond
California Institute of the Arts
On minimal resources, laziness, and style
University of California Santa Cruz
On minimal resources, laziness, and style
2015
Computer Music Hangout at the Public School, Los Angeles
Graph theory, harmonic space, and combinatorics
University of Southern California
On James Tenney’s Changes for six harps
California Institute of the Arts
A few ways to get from one thing to the next
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City
Noise in the system: reading Claude Shannon
2014
Conservatorio de Las Rosas, Morelia
New music for guitars
Universidad de Chile, Santiago
Algorithmic Information Theory, Metabiology, Music
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Algorithmic Information Theory, Metabiology, Music
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Algorithmic Information Theory, Metabiology, Music
Universidade de São Paulo
Shape and Structure: a few good ideas on form and detail
Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná
On community and radicality: a personal survey of dangerous artists and art movements
University of California, Santa Cruz
Several extremely simple ideas
University of California, Santa Barbara
Adapting and applying digital signal processing techniques to high-level music information
2013
Workshop for Algorithmic Computer Music at University of California, Santa Cruz
A few thoughts on musical structure
James Tenney's computer music
Dartmouth College
Where do you get your data from?
The computer in my life
2011
Wesleyan University
My software thinks your software is beautiful: a few words about metabiology, beauty and music
University of California, Santa Cruz
A few words on elegance, creativity and beauty
Dartmouth College
On James Tenney’s Changes for six harps
Three Ideas: 1) sometimes I steal, sometimes I don’t, and sometimes I think I am not stealing but actually am; 2) some thoughts on generalizing graphs and mathematical problems from musical ideas; 3) music, structural metrics and algorithmic information theory
IRCAM, Paris
On generalizing graphs and mathematical problems from musical ideas
2009
California Institute of the Arts
Structural metrics
2008
Columbia University
On James Tenney’s Arbor Vitae for string quartet
2006
State University of New York, Buffalo
Lecture on the machine and music
2005
State University of New York, Binghamton
Lecture on infinity