R. Luke DuBois is a composer, programmer, and video artist living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts. He has done interactive programming and music production work for many artists, most recently Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Elliott Sharp, and Michael Gordon, and was a staff-programming consultant for Engine27 for the 2003 season. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music with his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet, is available on Caipirinha/Sire and Cycling'74 music.

http://music.columbia.edu/~luke/

Luke and I have worked together on building performance interfaces for my interactive mandolin performances.  The composition Another Day is typical of my style of playing when I’m running my mandolin through MAX/MSP/Jitter on my Laptop.  We’ve also recently been developing Jitter interfaces so I can control and process video in real time.

Here are two versions of Another Day, first performed at Princeton University in 2002.  Listening to both versions will give you a feel for the structure of the basic piece, but also demonstrate that each performance can vary considerably.

Another Day 1

Another Day 2

Please check out my software page for a look at the children’s software I've been developing in conjunction with Luke.