Music

Appalachian grooves and Irish melodies with a modern, Midwestern lilt — an acoustic trio of joyful dance tunes and wistful waltzes.

Deep- and tech-house fused with old-time fiddle and banjo from the Library of Congress archives — electronic music written for modern American contra dance.

Neural networks (self-organizing maps) conduct a 64-voice granular synthesis engine, exploring the sonic and symbolic world of bells.

The hidden activity of a personal computer — CPU, memory, GPU, disk, and network traffic — turned into a real-time soundscape.

A deep-learning network trained on the voice-leading of J.S. Bach, run on the Big Red II supercomputer, composes entirely new music.

A New Year's Eve installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art: typed wishes dance across the walls while a neural network scores the room.

A composition for a mixed ensemble of ten musicians, premiered at the 2006 Midwest Composers' Symposium.

A 2006 composition for solo violin, premiered and recorded by the composer at the University of Illinois.

A multiplayer virtual space where music and visuals share one data structure — every movement is heard as well as seen. Premiered across the US in 2007.

A network-distributed acoustic ensemble joining up to four stages and six musicians in concurrent performance — the culmination of Smith's doctoral work.

A multimedia duet of dance, video, and live violin, where improvised phrases are captured and replayed to blend the present with the past.

An interactive electronic duet: a tenor saxophonist and an iPod player remix the live performance in real time, the laptop hidden off-stage.

A violin drives a living, deforming 3D avatar in real time — pitch, loudness, and timbre sculpting the mesh on screen.

Controlling a supercomputer with a violin: live sound steers a 50,000-agent flocking simulation on a 9,600-core cluster.

Large-scale, audience-interactive live animation for the IN Light IN festival — the crowd painting a particle canvas with Wiimotes.

Any number of performers play tightly synchronized rhythmic music using networked laptops and Nintendo Wii Remotes.

Rock out — with balloons. Four quadrants become lead, rhythm, bass, and drums as tracked balloons generate each instrument's part.