- (2022-11-25) Invited speaker: Aural atoms to synergistic structures: From electroacoustic aural training to orchestrating the laptop orchestra at the III Simposio Internacional sobre Cognición Sensorial 2022 (National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM)
- (2022-09-16) Keynote speaker: Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE): Reflecting on Operatic Enactments of Technological Crises at the 9th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH), Colombo Sri Lanka (remote presentation)
- (2022-09-15) Workshop: Live coding with Estuary. The International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Technological Transformations (online)
- (2022-09-15) Chair’s address, the 9th International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Technological Transformations (online)
- (2022-09-13,14,15) co-author (PhD supervisor): Random Walks on Neo-Riemannian Spaces: Towards Generative Transformations, presented by Philon Nguyen at the 3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2022)
- (2022-09-05) Invited plenary speaker: Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) of Futuristic Cataclysms through Collaborative Mini-Operas at the Horizons of Art 9/Horizonty umenia 9 conference, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (online presentation)
- (2022-09-05) Promoting singing and music literacy in the primary classroom at the Horizons of Art 9/Horizonty umenia 9 conference, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (online presentation)
- (2022-09-05) co-author/presenter: Promoting singing and music literacy in the primary classroom at the Horizons of Art 9/Horizonty umenia 9 conference, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (online presentation)
- (2022-07-07) co-author. Estuary 0.3: Collaborative audio-visual live coding with a multilingual browser-based platform. At the 7th Web Audio Conference (WAC 2022). Cannes, France (remote).
- (2022-04-14) guest speaker in roundtable. LOST_CONNECTION: A presentation about the premise of the RISE opera. At The Second International Arts and Human Rights Symposium Building Positive Relations: The Arts, New Materialism, Posthumanism & Human Rights, University of Ottawa (remote).
- (2022-02-04) Panelist: A panel on interdisciplinary digital practice and collaboration for the Keywords Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines course (FFAR 250)
- (2021-12-17) Co-author: "Layers of Unpredictability: Developing the Aesthetic and Identity of a Network-Based Live Coding Ensemble" A presentation at The International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC), Valdivia, Chile
- (2021-11-11) Panelist: Developing a philosophy for teaching creativity in the future: Interdisciplinary thought experiments on the value of pedagogies for creative thinking and being, in the UNE Cultural and Creative Arts Research Symposium 2021
- (2021-09-22) Keynote Address: "Personal Pandemic: An Original take on the Human Impact of COVID-19 in a Unique Desktop Opera Format", The 8th International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Health in the Arts and Humanities (Online)
- (2021-09-21) Chair's address, The 8th International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Health in the Arts and Humanities (Online)
- (2021-06-17) Panelist: "Educational Applications of the Estuary Live Coding Platform" at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, Canada (online)
- (2021-02-26) Principal Investigator, panelist: Personal Pandemic: A mini-opera-workshop launch by the RISE project. A show-and-tell of the Personal Pandemic mini-opera in the works at Concordia's 4th Space (online), https://youtu.be/tWwA--Bvq7k
- (2020-11-27) Guest lecture on spatial perception in the class Introduction to Digital Audio (MMEDIA 2G03) at McMaster University's Communication Studies and Multimedia Department (taught by Dr. David Ogborn)
- (2020-11-03) Dr. Donna Hewitt presented our co-investigated educational research "Impacts of Assignments’ Deadlines and Structural Guidelines on Creativity, Motivation, and Quality as Perceived by Tertiary Music and Music-Technology Students" at the HASSE Research Summit 2020 (online) organized by University Of New England, NSW, Australia
- (2020-10-27) Guest talk on improvisation, laptop orchestra, and research-creation in the course Experiencing the Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Faculty of Arts (taught by Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square)
- (2020-10-22) Panelist at Concordia's Art Volt Collection Soft-Launch event
- (2020-09-17) Opening chair’s speech at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities: Imagination and Freedom. Taking place remotely (based in Colombo, Sri Lanka)
- (2020-08-12) A collaborative networked live coding performance with Supercontinent ensemble and a panel about collaborative live coding at the course New Music and Media Arts (taught by Prof, Ricardo Dal Farra at Concordia University, Montreal).
- (2020-08-11) Gave a talk about telematic performance and collaborative live coding at the course New Music and Media Arts (taught by Prof, Ricardo Dal Farra at Concordia University, Montreal).
- (2020-06-10) Panel: SuperContinent Live: A performance and conversation at Concordia’s 4th Space. A panel about live coding, networked collaboration, and collective improvisation.
- (2020-02-13) Lecture: Sonic Aural Training with Inner Ear. At the Centre for Cognitive Science, Concordia University.
- (2019-12-01 to 22) Guest lecturer in four classes at the Advanced Studies in Experimental Music and Sound Art Certificate, Musrara School, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.
- (2019-12-11) Collaborative Live Coding: A workshop at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, for students of music technology and members of the Tel Aviv Music Technology Meetup Group.
- (2019-11-20) Sound-focused aural training with Inner Ear. A lecture at International Laboratory for BRAin, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS).
- (2019-11-02) Guest artist/listener at Listening Tables event, Acts of Listening Lab, Concordia University (organized by Dr. Rajni Shah).
- (2019-10-02) Sound-focused aural training with Inner Ear. A lecture at the Music & Sound Design Program at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia.
- (2019-10-01) Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk): Co-creating live interdisciplinary performance in a large ensemble. A guest lecture at School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
- (2019-09-26) Workshop: Decolonisation in the Arts and Humanities. A guest workshop at School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
- (2019-09-22) Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk): Co-creating live interdisciplinary performance in a large ensemble. A guest lecture at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), as part of the event Mediating of Understanding Intercultural Art. Perak, Malaysia.
- (2019-09-20) Workshop: Collective Improvisation. at The 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- (2019-09-20) Workshop: On Scholarly Publications. Co-presented with Grace Chin at The 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- (2019-09-19) Workshop: Live Coding: Collaboration, Learning and Decolonization workshop. Co-presented with Abhinay Khoparzi, David Ogborn, Shelly Knotts, and Luis Navarro Del Angel at The 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- (2019-07-17) Panel: A presentation of sound works by Musrara School graduating students, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel.
- (2019-06-12) Workshop: Live coding with Estuary, Punctual, and Tidalcycles. At the Centro Cultural Banco De La República Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, as part of the Festival Internacional de la Imagen 2019.
- (2019-04-06) Paper: Inner Ear: Toward the democratization of electroacoustic aural skill acquisition (w/ Danielle Savage, David Ogborn, Jasmine Leblond-Chartrand, Jamie Beverley, Spencer Park, Luis Navarro del Angel). The American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. 5-9 Apr, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto ON.
- (2019-04-03) Panel: Creating an Inclusive Science Ecosystem: A panel discussion on equity, diversity and inclusion in academia. The Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM) in collaboration with Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL), McGill University.
- (2019-01-25) Booth: Inner Ear: An interactive web-based sound-focused aural training technology. Health initiative networking reception, Concordia University.
- (2019-01-16) Workshop: Platforms and Practices for Geographically Distributed Live Coding (w/ David Ogborn and Shelly Knotts). The International Conference on Live Coding, Madrid Spain.
- (2018-11-18) Workshop: Inner Ear: An interactive sound-focused aural training software (w/ Jasmin Leblond-Chartrand and Danielle Savage). Music in New Technologies (MINT) Forum, Halifax NS.
- (2018-11-16) CLOrk: Education Through Democratic Research-Creation (w/ Danielle Savage, Robin Schmidt, Nick Lavigne, and Kasey Pocius). Music in New Technologies (MINT) Forum, Halifax NS.
- (2018-11-03) Long paper with Donna Hewitt: Getting it done” in electroacoustic studies: The effects of deadlines and structured guidelines on the creativity and motivation of electroacoustic music students. The Society for Music Education in Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
- (2018-09-27) Keynote address: Designing and Conducting Research-Creation. 5rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- (2018-09-27) Workshop: Soundwalk—Reconnecting With Our Sonic Environment. 5rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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(2017) Long paper: Browser-based Collaborative Projectional Live Coding of Musical Patterns. Co-presented with David Ogborn, Jamie Beverley, Luis Navarro del Angel, Esteban Betancur, and Alex McLean. 3rd International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) 2017, Morelia, Mexico.
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(2017) Panel “Meshworks: diversity and equity in live coding practice” at 3rd International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) 2017. CMMAS. Morelia, Mexico.
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(2017) A presentation and discussion at the Feminist University Seminar (offered by The Simone de Beauvoir Institute) about ongoing developments in gender social-action in electroacoustic studies.
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(2017) Keynote speech: The Arts as a Testing Ground for Democratic Education: The Internal and External Workings of Learning through Making Art, 4th International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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(2017) Electroacoustic Studies, sound design, and aural training: A presentation to music students at The University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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(2017) w/ Dr. Donna Hewitt (UNE, Australia). “Getting it done” in electroacoustic studies: The effects of deadlines and structured guidelines on the creativity and motivation of electroacoustic music students, Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) conference 2017, Nagoya City University, Japan.
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(2017) Risk taking and collectiveness in laptop orchestra improvisation at Dalcroze Studies - 3rd International Conference 2017 (ICDS3).
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(2017) Presentation and discussion of two articles at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI—McGill).
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(2017) Improvisation as an evolutionary force in laptop orchestra culture, Concordia Music Research Series, Concordia University.
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(2016) Panel on ensemble collaboration in live coding ensembles, International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) 2016, Hamilton, ON.
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(2016) Keynote speech: Collective Interdisciplinary Improvisation and its Role in Creating Bridges Across Arts. 3rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2016, Bali, Indonesia.
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(2016) Improvisation as an Evolutionary Force in Laptop Orchestra Culture. Klingt gut! Symposium für Tongestaltung, Hamburg, Germany.
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(2016) Why is Electroacoustics So Much Fun? A shared panel with Mark Corwin at Concordia's Music Research Talks, organized by Christine Beckett.
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(2015) Transformational education through creative innovation in the laptop orchestra. International Symposium in Learning and Teaching Music in the Twenty-First Century: The Contribution of Science and Technology (LTM21/AEM21), Montreal QC.
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(2015) Extramuros, Tidal, and Dirt. Presenting Shared Buffer technology in a demo session, International Symposium in Learning and Teaching Music in the Twenty-First Century: The Contribution of Science and Technology (LTM21/AEM21), Montreal QC.
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(2015) Why is Electroacoustics So Much Fun? A guest lecture at The Visual and Performing Arts in Canada course (MJ Thompson), Fine Arts Faculty, Concordia University.
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(2015) Auditory Scene Analysis. A guest lecture at the Language and Mind course (Charles Reiss) at the department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University.
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(2015) Long paper: extramuros: making music in a browser-based, language-neutral collaborative live coding environment. Co-presented with David Ogborn, Ian Jarvis, Alexandra Cardenas, and Alex McLean. International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) 2015, Leeds, UK.
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(2015) Aural atoms and structures in electroacoustics : From ear training to analysis and back again. Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) 2015, Sheffield, UK.
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(2015) Roundtable: Digital Careers: Education, Entrepreneurship and Funding. MusDig Montreal Symposium: Transformations in digital music and sound (part of MUTEK festival).
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(2015) Aural training class for grade one elementary school students at JPPS; A live coding workshop with Tidal/Extramuros for grade three students.
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(2015) Aural atoms and synergetic structures: From electroacoustic ear training to analysis and back again. A faculty research talk at Concordia University.
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(2014) w/ Jamie Woollard (Research assistant). Whatever Works: Research/Creation in the Context of Concordia Laptop Orchestra. Verge Conference 2014: Arts Re/Search, Langley, Canada.
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(2014) Understanding Analysis of EA Music through Aural Training Pedagogy. VIIIth EUROPEAN MUSIC ANALYSIS CONFERENCE (EUROMAC), Leuven, Belgium.
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(2014) The laptop orchestra as a framework for transformational education. Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
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(2014) Whatever works: musical communication in the context of interdisciplinary, networked laptop orchestra. CMPCP’s Performance Studies Network international conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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(2014) Telemetronomy: Beat-based synchronization of remote laptop ensembles. INTER/actions: Symposium on Interactive Electronic Music (Bangor University), Bangor, United Kingdom.
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(2014) Music education through innovation: The Concordia Laptop Orchestra as a model for transformational education. 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain.
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(2013) Panel discussion at the Musrara School of Photography, Media and New Music (alongside Avi Elbaz Boaz Cohen) . Musrara Graduation Day, Jerusalem, Israel.
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(2013) Laptop orchestra direction, conduction, composition, and technology. Faculty Research Series, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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(2012) Dissections: Ryoji Ikeda (Panel). Ryoji Ikeda Exhibition, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.
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(2012) EA aural training workshop. Sound Travels Intensive, Toronto, Canada.
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(2012) Comprovisation with laptop orchestra. Matralab’s Comprovisations workshop, Montreal, Canada.
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(2011) Recent developments in EA ear training. Canadian Electroacoustic Community 25th anniversary, Montreal, Canada.
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(2011) About the Concerto for T-Stick and Two Laptop Orchestras. Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
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(2010) Electroacoustic aural training workshop. Sound Travels Intensive, Toronto, Canada.
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(2010) The Results of a Year-Long Action-Study on Aural Skills Acquisition by Students of Electroacoustics at Concordia University. Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
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(2009) The Aural Skills of Undergraduate Electroacoustic (EA) Music Majors in the Context of a New Aural Training Method Designed for EA. Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
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(2009) Aural training for electroacoustics. Sound Travels Intensive, Toronto, Canada.
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(2008) Technical Workshop: Spectrum. Mid-Autumn Harvest Moon Festival/Symposium (Concordia), Montreal, Canada.
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(2008) A clinic in electroacoustic history and composition at Rimon School of Contemporary Music (Ramat HaSharon)
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(2008) A master class/clinic in electroacoustic composition at Hed Music College (Tel Aviv)
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(2008) Aural Training for EA. Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
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(2007) A workshop on aural perception at CRES/CFRO Co-op Radio (Vancouver)
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(2007) A master class in electroacoustic composition for (classical) music composition students at Tel Aviv University
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(2005) Compositional collaboration in the electronic medium. New Music Festival at Western Illinois University, Macomb, United States.
