NEWS

• ACM Creativity & Cognition 2013 Conference at UTS (Co-Chair), coinciding with ISEA & Vivid Sydney
• Finalist in 2012 Art Music Awards - APRA/AMC (Award for Excellence in Music Education - for 2011 diffuse concert series)
• 'diffuse' concert 2012 season
• New Computational Design Methods book, Ch.17: Interactive sonificiation Design (Beilharz) (IGI, 2012, ISBN13: 9781613501801)
• 'diffuse' concert 1(Ros Dunlop & Jon Drummond); 'diffuse' concert 2 (interactive audio-visual); 'diffuse' 6-concert 2011 season
• Windtraces site-specific sound installation (Kirsty Beilharz & Aengus Martin) @ Bondi Sculpture by the Sea 2011
• Sense-Aware Research Soirée Wednesdays 17:30 CB06.05.48
• 'diffuse' concert season 2011
  @ UTS Bon Marche Studio CB03.01.05 - 755 Harris Street Ultimo
• Co-Chair: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010++ International Conference at UTS 15-18.06.10
• Beilharz Diamond Quills performance by Charisma Ensemble 30.05.10
• Bachelor of Sound & Music Design Sydney Morning Herald 12.10.09

KEYWORDS

interaction design, electronic art, physical computing, pervasive computing, sonification, auditory display, information aesthetics, gestural interaction, A.I., A-Life, Neural Oscillator Networks, sensors, eco-data sonification (meterological, water, energy), biometric-data sonification (EEG, ECG, EMG, GSR, motion), sound installation, multi-modal interaction, real-time generative music, interactive music systems, timbral analysis, electroacoustic composition

Research Areas

• gestural interaction (computer vision, tracking fiducial markers, motion)
• information aesthetics in sonification (multimodal display with visualisation & touch), eco-data, bio-data, physical display
• physical computing: tangible & tactile, multi-touch, spatial, wearable, locative, sensing + actuating in auditory display
• generative A.I. + A-life models of creativity for real-time (live) music computation in interactive performance environments
• timbral analysis in contemporary, electronic and Japanese music converging verbal, graphical and spectral approaches

Music Performance + Interaction Design

• acoustic and electroacoustic music composition + sound design
• interactive installation
• performative sonification + generative music

Teaching

• course director: Bachelor of Sound and Music Design
• music: Contemporary Music 1, Contemporary Music 2, Electronic Music Composition
• interaction design + sonfication: Situated Media Installation Studio
• Ph.D supervisor