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R. Luke DuBois
curriculum vitae

Education
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Bachelor of Arts, Music / History, May 1997.
 
Teaching
Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY
  • Assistant Professor, 2008-present.
  • DM2144, Interaction Design. Instructor.
  • DM2186, Algorithmic Composition. Instructor.
  • DM9903, Thesis Research. Instructor.
  • DM9103, Synaesthesia. Instructor.
Computer Music Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Staff Researcher, 2004-present.
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2003-2004.
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow, 1997-2003.
  • R6006, Sound/Image (Fall 2003). Instructor.
  • R6006, Sound/Image (Spring 2003). Co-instructor.
  • G6610, Computer Music (Fall 2002-Spring 2003). Teaching Assistant.
  • G6615, Movement-Sound Interaction (Spring 2001). Co-instructor.
  • V2205, MIDI Music Production Techniques (Summer 1999, Summer 2000, Spring 2001-2002). Instructor.
  • R6505, Interactivity Outside the Box (Spring 2000). Guest lecturer.
  • G6630, Recorded Sound (Spring 1999 to Spring 2001). Teaching Assistant.
  • G6601, Basic Electroacoustics (Fall 1998 to Fall 2000). Teaching Assistant.
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications, 2003-present.
  • H79.2422, Live Image Processing and Performance.
  • H79.2484, Musical Informatics.
  • H79.2524, Algorithmic Composition.
  • H79.2102, Thesis Seminar.
Music Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
MFA Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
  • Faculty, 2003-2004.
  • HSG6356, Max/Jitter I-II (Spring 2003-Spring 2004).
Harvestworks, New York, NY
  • Faculty, 2001-present.
  • Faculty Member for Max/MSP Certification Program.
  • Taught Max/MSP Night School, Jitter Worskhop, and FFT Objects classes.
Music Technology, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York, NY
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2001-present.
  • E85.1047, Computer Music Synthesis: Fundamental Techniques (Fall 2001 to present).
  • E85.1010, Audio For Video I (Fall 2004 to present).
  • E85.1017, Electronic and Computer Music Literature (Spring 2002).
  • E85.1014, MIDI II (Spring 2001).
Workshops/Guest Lectures/Selected Panels
Gallery Representation / Artist Residencies
 
Consulting / Employment
Cycling'74, San Francisco, CA
  • Product Manager, 2005 to present.
  • Consultant Engineer, 2000 to 2005.
  • Max/MSP. Product manager. Co-author of manual documentation and tutorials.
  • Jitter. Member of development team. Co-author of manual documentation and tutorials.
  • Cycles Audio Source Libraries. Contributing sound designer.
Engine 27, New York, NY
  • Staff programmer and interactive installation consultant (2002-2003 Season).
  • Clients for Artist-in-Residence program include:
    • Elliott Sharp: Fluvial
    • Chris Miller: Drift
    • Chris Mann: The Plato Songs
    • Larry Austin: Williams Re-mixed (John Cage)
    • Dan Cooper: Otto Luening retrospective
WBAR-FM, New York, NY
  • Technical Director, 1994-1997.
  • News Director, 1994.
Artistic Collaborations, Private Consulting and Client Work
 
Software Research and Development
Jitter
with Joshua Kit Clayton, Jeremy Bernstein, Randall Jones, and Darwin Grosse
  • Set of extensions to Max/MSP for generalized matrix manipulation.
  • Distributed by Cycling'74.
SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater Pre-Show Team
Center For Advanced Technology, New York University
  • Designing and implementing real-time visualization and auralization software for Vicon motion capture systems.
PeRColate
with Dan Trueman
  • Open-source toolkit for signal processing, real-time audio and video manipulation and synthesis in Max/MSP.
Making Noise: Real-time Sequencing of Timbre for Interactive Composition
with Thanassis Rikakis
  • Software development of an interface system for teaching secondary school students interactive composition and performance. Part of a grant funded by JPMorgan/Chase in conjunction with Teacher's College, Columbia University. Premiered at the 3rd World Summit on Media for Children, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2001.
An Auditory Display System for Aiding Interjoint Coordination
with Claude Ghez, Thanassis Rikakis, and Perry Cook
  • Developed interface system for aiding proprioceptively-impaired patients in coordinating their limbs using auditory feedback.
  • Current state of research presented at the International Community on Auditory Display Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2000. Paper included in the proceedings
Real-Time Cmix
with Brad Garton, David Topper, and John Gibson
  • An open-source synthesis and signal-processing language for MacOS X, Linux, and SGI. Documentation and source code development.
 
Selected Discography
  • Loud5 Issue #1, 2007. Contributed track.
  • Timelapse. Cantaloupe Music, 2006.
  • Messiah. Cantaloupe Music, 2004. Contributed track.
  • Michael Gordon, Light is Calling. Nonesuch, 2004. Producer.
  • Layeral Intersect #4. Deadtech / Anechoic, 2001. Compilation. One of four participants.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet Fix It In Post. Cycling'74 Music, 2001.
  • State of the Union. EMF Music, 2001. Compilation. With the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • Open Ends: Museum of Modern Art Compilation. Museum Music, 2000. With the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet Becoming Transparent. Caipirinha Music, 2000.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet Exasperation EP. Caipirinha Music, 2000. With JMD, Kit Clayton, Datach'i, Federspiel.
  • go.go.go, Music from the Computer Music Center. Columbia University, 2000.
  • Diego Cortez, Stuzzicadenti. Bar None Records, 2000. Contributed track with the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • DJ Spooky vs. Scanner, The Quick and the Dead. Sulphur, 2000. Contributed track with the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • DJ Spooky vs. The Freight Elevator Quartet: File Under Futurism. Caipirinha Music, 1999.
  • DJ Spooky vs. The Freight Elevator Quartet: The Futurism EP. Caipirinha Music, 1999. With a Guy Called Gerald.
  • This is Jungle Sky, Volume 6 (Funk). Liquid Sky Music, 1999. Compilation. With the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • Praying for Something New. Kyan Records, 1998. Compilation. With the Freight Elevator Quartet.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet's Jungle Album. Distributed by the Electronic Music Foundation. 1998.
  • Music from the International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1997
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet. Distributed by the Electronic Music Foundation. 1997.
 
Selected Performances
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. January, 2009.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. EMPAC, Troy, NY. October, 2008.
  • Fair Use. Issue Project Room Benefit. New York, NY. October, 2008.
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. Unity Gain, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. April, 2008.
  • Politics As Usual. Exit Art. New York, NY. November, 2008.
  • Fair Use. Harvestworks Benefit. Brooklyn, NY. October, 2008.
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. Art OMI, Columbia County, NY. June, 2008.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. 01SJ, San Jose, CA. June, 2008.
  • Bang On A Can Marathon. With Bora Yoon. World Financial Center, New York, NY. May, 2008.
  • Synaesthetic Object. Unity Gain, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. April, 2008.
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. The Stone, New York, NY. March, 2008.
  • Imaginary Elevateds. With Todd Reynolds. vBrooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. December, 2007.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA. November, 2007.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. Wexner Center For The Arts, Columbus Ohio. November, 2007.
  • Fair Use. DUMBO Arts Festival. Brooklyn, NY. September, 2007.
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. International Computer Music Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark. August, 2007.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. Ingenuity Festival 2007. Cleveland, OH. July, 2007.
  • Fashionably Late For The Relationship. With Lián Amaris Sifuentes. Union Square, New York, NY. July, 2007.
  • Fair Use. New York Electronic Arts Festival. 3LD. New York, NY. June, 2007.
  • LEMUR. 3LD. New York, NY. June, 2007.
  • The Princeton Laptop Orchestra. Taplin Auditorium. Princeton, NJ. May, 2007.
  • Still Life With Microphone. With Todd Reynolds. Southern Theater. Minneapolis, MN. May, 2007.
  • Bioluminescence. With Lesley Flanigan. Tranzducer, LEMURPlex. Brooklyn, NY. April, 2007.
  • Beyond The Machine 07. Juilliard School. New York, NY. April, 2007.
  • The Dogs of Desire. With Neil Rolnick. Albany, NY. March, 2007.
  • Biology IV and Repeat After Me. Electronic Music Foundation. Frederick Loewe Theater, New York, NY. February, 2007.
  • Current Indiscretion. Spark Festival. Minneapolis, MN. February, 2007.
  • Build/Decay. The Tank, New York, NY. February, 2007.
  • Loud5 Release Party. Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. January, 2007.
  • Still Life With Microphone. With Todd Reynolds. Santa Barbara, CA. January, 2007.
  • Cantaloupe Music Showcase, CMJ 2006. New York, October, 2006.
  • Video DUMBO 2006, Brooklyn, NY. October, 2006.
  • NWEAMO 2006, Apple Store SoHo, New York, NY. October, 2006.
  • Unity Gain, Spiegel tent, New York, NY. September, 2006.
  • Sound Art at Washington Square Park, New York, NY. September, 2006.
  • Summer Screen. With Todd Reynolds. McCarren Pool Park, Brooklyn, NY. August, 2006.
  • Spectropia. With Toni Dove. Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY. July, 2006.
  • Fair Use. Bushwick Arts Project. July, 2006.
  • Polar. With Beliz Demircioglu. Pisa, Italy. May, 2006.
  • PlayVision. With Christian Marclay and the Elliott Sharp Trio. World Financial Center. New York, NY. May, 2006.
  • Timelapse. Record Release Party. Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. May, 2006.
  • Video Performance with Todd Reynolds. With The Books. North Six, Brooklyn, NY. May, 2006.
  • Steelworks. With Anna Clyne, MSM. April, 2006.
  • Still Life With Microphone. With Todd Reynolds. Issue Project Room, Brooklyn. April, 2006.
  • Fair Use. BENT Festival. New York, NY. April, 2006.
  • Ego. With Ethel and Gutbucket. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. March, 2006.
  • Window, at Who's In Control. Eyebeam Atelier, NY. February, 2006.
  • Still Life With Microphone. With Todd Reynolds. Greenwood Cemetary, Brooklyn. February, 2006.
  • PIANOVISION. With Kathy Supove. Flea Theater, NYC. January, 2006.
  • Current Indiscretion. With Lián Amaris Sifuentes. Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY. December, 2005.
  • Todd Reynolds and R. Luke DuBois. Joe's Pub, NYC. December 2005.
  • Plant, Botany, and Particle. Performed by TACTUS. Symphony Space, NYC. December, 2005.
  • Mocap Performance Instrument for interactive dance and computer vision system. New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference, Vancouver, BC. May, 2005.
  • Commissioned Composer. Suffolk County Community College Contemporary Music Ensemble.
  • Zoom: Composers Close Up. Merkin Concert Hall, New York City. Commissioned Composer. February, 2005.
  • The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Yale Repertory Theater. New Haven, Connecticut. Software Designer. October, 2004.
  • Todd Reynolds and R. Luke DuBois. Knitting Factory, New York City. October, 2004.
  • Re:NEW: Frontiers in Creativity. Columbia 250th Anniversary Symposium. Performer. September, 2004.
  • Decasia. St. Anne's Warehouse, Brooklyn. Software Designer. September, 2004.
  • SquidBall. SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater Pre-show. Software Designer. August, 2004.
  • Biology, Part II. Piece for Violin and Video. Synaesthesiologists / The 2004 New York Video Festival. July, 2004.
  • The Guest From The Future. Bard Summerscape Festival. Software Designer. July, 2004.
  • Syndakit: All Guitars. With Elliott Sharp. Tonic, NYC. June, 2004.
  • Ethel Goes to the Movies. Residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. With Ethel. June, 2004.
  • Entanglement for ten-piece chamber ensemble. Premiered by Speculum Musicae. Miller Theater, New York. May, 2004.
  • Four-Course Artflow. The Tank, NYC. January, 2004.
  • The New Yorkers. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Performer (with Michael Gordon Band). October, 2003.
  • Don Juan in Prague. Bard Summerscape Festival. Software Designer. July, 2003.
  • Remote Lounge. Regular performer, 2003-2004.
  • Repeat After Me. Piece for flute and electronic sound and video. Williamsburg Arts Nexus, March 2003.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet Play the Whitney Museum. Whitney Museum of American Art Soundcheck Series, January 2003.
  • Projection. Piece for interactive dance and video. Computer Music Center Movement / Sound Workshop, May, 2001.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet, Caipirinha Showcase, CMJ 2000. New York, September, 2000.
  • Loss Prevention. With Jeanne Finley and Doug DuBois. Original score and sound design. Screened at the New York Video Festival, July, 2000.
  • ...On the Machine. Premiered at the Williamsburg Arts Nexus, June 2000.
  • Elliot Sharp Meets the Freight Elevator Quartet, Tonic, New York, NY. June, 2000.
  • DJ Spooky vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet. Live score to Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. Porto, Portugal, May, 2000.
  • Study Break (after Webern Op. 30). Premiered at the Computer Music Center Annual Concert, May, 2000.
  • Elliot Sharp Meets the Freight Elevator Quartet, Knitting Factory, New York, NY. April, 2000.
  • Function: ctrl-alt-del. Choreography by Christina Towle with music by R. Luke DuBois and the Freight Elevator Quartet. Joyce Soho. New York, February, 2000.
  • Elliot Sharp. Orchestra Carbon Performs Radiolaria (Premiere). Computer Programming and Interface Design. Whitney Museum of American Art. December, 1999.
  • DJ Spooky vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet. Knitting Factory Main Stage. New York, September, 1999.
  • The Freight Elevator Quartet, Caipirinha Showcase, CMJ 1999. New York, September, 1999.
  • The Revolution Will Be Streamed. Premiered with the Freight Elevator Quartet, Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival. The Kitchen, New York, April 1999.
  • Things That Go Beep in the Night. Performed at the 1998 International Computer Music Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan. September, 1998.
  • Richetta. Premiered at the USA/Japan Intercollege Computer Music Festival, 1997. Tokyo, Japan.
  • Who Are We Kidding? Premiered at the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece. September, 1997.
  • Just for the Purposes of Playing Around. Premiered with the Freight Elevator Quartet and five dancers. Miller Theater, NY, May, 1997.
  • Soft and Sky Melting. Video with Douglas Geers. Premiered at TwoManyTwo, New York, 1996.
  • Other performances at Columbia University Composers and Computer Music Center Concerts, 1995-present.
  • Many, many other performances with The Freight Elevator Quartet.
 
 
Selected Gallery Shows
Additional materials / references may be requested by e-mail.
A hyperlinked version of this CV is available online at http://lukedubois.com/me/cv.html.