Aaron Arthur Anderson
[email protected] • Noblesville, IN • (574) 721-7283
Website: AAndersonPortfolio.com | Github: aaronaanderson
Software developer and artist with a passion for forward-looking, ambitious projects as demonstrated in personal, professional, and university work. Deep familiarity with and enthusiasm for DSP techniques, modern C++, Human Computer Interface design, and media art.
Experience:
Dawesome
November 2024 - Present
Music DSP Engineer
Development of avant-garde music synthesizers and effects, including algorithm design, DSP, UI, and UIX.
Contract Software Developer / Consultant
March 2020 - November 2024
DSP Engineer
Development ranging from Digital Audio Workstations, Audio Plugins, and audio applications for mobile devices.
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2019 - June 2020
Teaching Assistant | MAT240B - Digital Audio Programming
MAT201A - Media Signal Processing
Research Assistant | Allosphere Research Group
Responsible for the teaching and engineering of new media, including massively multichannel speaker arrays and stereoscopic synchronized projection systems.
The Institute For Digital Intermedia Arts
September 1st 2016 - August 1 2018
Human Computer Interface: Electronics Designer
Responsible for hardware/software design for intermedia art
Georgia Southern University
August 1st, 2015 - May 7th, 2016
Teaching Assistant II - Instructor of Record
Wholly responsible for entire courses, including syllabi and grading
Courses taught include Studio Recording Techniques and Human Computer Interface Design
Georgia Southern University
August 2014 - May 2015
Facilities Manager
Installed gear in newly renovated studio, including SSL AWS 948, patchbay, and software
Supervised and maintained student music tech lab
Education:
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2018- (incomplete - withdrawn)
PhD - Media Arts and Technology
Georgia Southern University
August 2014 - May 2016
MM Music Technology
GPA: 4.0
Ball State University
August 2010 - May 2014
BM Music Technology
BM Music Composition
GPA: 3.73
Vice President – Ball State Chapter of Society of Composers Inc., 2013-2014
Software Research
Technical Skills
Languages: C++, CUDA, C, Java, OpenGL/GLSL, MaxMSP, SuperCollider, Pure Data
Frameworks: JUCE, openFrameworks, Allolib, Unreal, Wwise
Build Tools: CMake, Make
Invited Lectures/Presentations
Georgia Southern University - Media Creation with Allolib, Feb. 26, 2019
GameSoundCon, LA - Procedural Audio in World Building, Oct. 10, 2018
Root Signals - C++ Audio Programming in openFrameworks, Feb. 11, 2017
Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium - Genetic Microsound, April 5, 2016
University of Miami – Survey of Granular Synthesis, Dec. 11, 2015
Georgia Southern University Research Symposium - Particle Synthesis, April 24, 2015
Festivals and Conferences
Electronic Music Midwest - Kansas City Community College - Fall, 2017
Ball State New Music Festival - Muncie, IN - March, 2017
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Georgia Southern University - Feb., 2017
SEAMUS National Conference, GA - February 2016
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2015
International Computer Music Conference, TX - September 2015
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Jacksonville University - September, 2015
SEAMUS National Conference, Blacksburg, VA - March 2015
SPLICE, Kalamazoo, MI - July 2015
Ball State New Music Festival - Muncie, IN - March 2015
National Student Electronic Music Event - Bowling Green University - March, 2015
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2014
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Jacksonville University - September, 2014
National Student Electronic Music Event – Georgia Southern University - February, 2014
Threshold Electronic Music Festival – Oberlin Conservatory, OH – February, 2014
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2013
Electronic Music Midwest – Kansas City Community College – Fall 2013
SEAMUS National Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota – Spring 2013
Threshold Electronic Music Festival – Miami University, OH – October 2012
Honors
Cum Laude - Spring 2014
Runner-up for the Allen-Strange Award – Spring 2013
Composition and Performance
Cellular Diffusion (Procedural Live Visual)
Arts Walk - Muncie, IN (2017)
Mammal Gallery (2017)
Strain Ten (Stereo Fixed Audio)
Electronic Music Midwest (2017)
Ball State New Music Festival (2017)
Malleis (Piano and electronics)
Premiered by Keith Kirchoff at SPLICE (2015)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at Root Signals Electronic Music Festival (2015)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at SEAMUS (2016)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at Discordia Album Release Concert (2016)
Studio Study No. 1 (16 Channel Fixed Media)
Premiered at NYCEMF (2015)
International Computer Music Conference (2015)
Electroacoustic Barn Dance (2015)
Melange (Stereo Fixed Media, 6 min.)
Premiered at Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, 2014
Performed at Electronic Music One, BSU, 2014
Performed at N_SEME (2015)
Performed at Ball State New Music Festival (2015)
Performed at SEAMUS (2015)
Clouds (Electric Guitar, Live Audio, Live Video-11 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at Channel Noise, 2014
Performed by Aaron Anderson at the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance, 2014
Signal Error (Electric Guitar, Laptop, and Human interface-7.5 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at the Threshold Festival, 2014
Performed by Aaron Anderson on his Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Bokeh (Trio for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano – 6 min.)
Premiered A. Kinerk, A. Hoerst, and C. Rieger - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Arundo Donax (Bassoon Solo – 6.5 min.)
Premiered by P. Kandel - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Reciprocity (Marimba and Fixed Electronics, 7.5 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance, Fall 2013
Performed by Aaron Anderson on the Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Performed by Aaron Anderson on Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Discomfort (Stereo Fixed Media, 7.5 min.)
Premiered on Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Presented on Senior Composition Recital, 2014
5 (Violin and Piano Duet, 9.5 min.)
Premiered by Lindzy Volk and Aaron Anderson - Student Composer Forum BSU, 2012
Performed by Timothy Barnett - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Rosewood Reflections (Marimba Solo, 3 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson - Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Performed by Philip Wells - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Talk to Me (Improvisational Laptop Duet, 8 min.)
Premiered by Chris Rieger and Aaron Anderson at the Threshold Festival, 2012
Performed by Chris Rieger and Aaron Anderson - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Bits and Pieces (Six channel fixed media, 4.5 min.)
Premiered at Student Composer Forum, 2012
Presented at the SEAMUS National Conferences, 2013
Presented at Electronic Music Midwest, 2013
Discography
Strain Ten, METropolis Volume 2
Microbial Surfaces, SEAMUS Electroacoustic Miniatures 2015: Sonic Haikus
Malleis, EMPiRES
Ensembles and Performance
Ensemble AMP – Percussion and Electric Guitar
Michael Fiday, It Shakes My Teeth (Percussion)
Rzewski, Coming Together (Percussion)
Brendon Randal-Meyers, Double Double (Percussion)
Reich, 2x5 (Percussion)
Andriessen, Worker’s Union (Electric Guitar)
Glass, Music in Fifths (Electric Guitar)
Lisa Coons, Entropion (Electric Guitar)
BSU New Music Ensemble – Percussion and Electric Guitar
Seung-Ah Oh, Fragments (Electric Guitar)
Andriessen, Worker’s Union (Vibraphone)
References
Dr. Curtis Roads - Professor of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara - [email protected]
Dr. Peter Vorlaender - Dawesome Founder - Hamburg - [email protected]
John Fillwalk - Senior Director of Hybrid Technologies, Institute for Digital Intermedia Art,
Ball State University - [email protected]
Dr. Karl Yerkes - Lecturer of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara - [email protected]
Dr. John Thompson - Professor of Music Technology, Georgia Southern University -
[email protected]
[email protected] • Noblesville, IN • (574) 721-7283
Website: AAndersonPortfolio.com | Github: aaronaanderson
Software developer and artist with a passion for forward-looking, ambitious projects as demonstrated in personal, professional, and university work. Deep familiarity with and enthusiasm for DSP techniques, modern C++, Human Computer Interface design, and media art.
Experience:
Dawesome
November 2024 - Present
Music DSP Engineer
Development of avant-garde music synthesizers and effects, including algorithm design, DSP, UI, and UIX.
Contract Software Developer / Consultant
March 2020 - November 2024
DSP Engineer
Development ranging from Digital Audio Workstations, Audio Plugins, and audio applications for mobile devices.
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2019 - June 2020
Teaching Assistant | MAT240B - Digital Audio Programming
MAT201A - Media Signal Processing
Research Assistant | Allosphere Research Group
Responsible for the teaching and engineering of new media, including massively multichannel speaker arrays and stereoscopic synchronized projection systems.
The Institute For Digital Intermedia Arts
September 1st 2016 - August 1 2018
Human Computer Interface: Electronics Designer
Responsible for hardware/software design for intermedia art
Georgia Southern University
August 1st, 2015 - May 7th, 2016
Teaching Assistant II - Instructor of Record
Wholly responsible for entire courses, including syllabi and grading
Courses taught include Studio Recording Techniques and Human Computer Interface Design
Georgia Southern University
August 2014 - May 2015
Facilities Manager
Installed gear in newly renovated studio, including SSL AWS 948, patchbay, and software
Supervised and maintained student music tech lab
Education:
University of California, Santa Barbara
September 2018- (incomplete - withdrawn)
PhD - Media Arts and Technology
Georgia Southern University
August 2014 - May 2016
MM Music Technology
GPA: 4.0
Ball State University
August 2010 - May 2014
BM Music Technology
BM Music Composition
GPA: 3.73
Vice President – Ball State Chapter of Society of Composers Inc., 2013-2014
Software Research
- Terrain (2024)
- Dynamic Wave Terrain Synthesis Instrument Plugin
- Tools Used: JUCE, CMake, C++
- Features dynamic audio-rate modulation of trajectory and terrains.
- Particle Accelerator (2020)
- GPU-Accelerated real-time particle synthesizer
- Tools Used: CUDA, JUCE, CMake, C/C++
- In order to properly leverage the computational potential of a GPU, common techniques had to be reevaluated and redesigned to comply with the Same Instruction, Multiple Thread execution model. This application demonstrates the immense potential of massively-parallel audio program design.
- Pedal (2018 - ongoing)
- Open Source C++ audio library
- Tools Used: C++, CMake, GLFW, RTAudio
- Pedal is a tool designed to facilitate the creation of modern software audio applications while exposing the user of this library to an approachable code base. Pedal lowers the technical barrier for C++ audio application development, providing more flexible tools to a broader range of developers.
- Wave Terrain Synthesizer (2017)
- Graphical implementation of wave terrain synthesis
- Tools Used: C++, OpenFrameworks, ofxATK
- The Wave Terrain Synthesizer, an spatial augmentation of wavetable synthesis, produces continuous tones by scanning a three-dimensional terrain with a two dimensional orbit. This implementation provides a direct graphical representation of this process in real time.
- Referenced in The Computer Music Tutorial 2nd edition.
- Dipole Particle Generator (2015)
- Expansive granular synthesis application
- Tools Used: MaxMSP 6, Gen~
- Dipole Particle Generator is a large-scale granular synthesis application. It is inclusive of many microsound techniques and features an augmented implementation of glisson synthesis.
Technical Skills
Languages: C++, CUDA, C, Java, OpenGL/GLSL, MaxMSP, SuperCollider, Pure Data
Frameworks: JUCE, openFrameworks, Allolib, Unreal, Wwise
Build Tools: CMake, Make
Invited Lectures/Presentations
Georgia Southern University - Media Creation with Allolib, Feb. 26, 2019
GameSoundCon, LA - Procedural Audio in World Building, Oct. 10, 2018
Root Signals - C++ Audio Programming in openFrameworks, Feb. 11, 2017
Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium - Genetic Microsound, April 5, 2016
University of Miami – Survey of Granular Synthesis, Dec. 11, 2015
Georgia Southern University Research Symposium - Particle Synthesis, April 24, 2015
Festivals and Conferences
Electronic Music Midwest - Kansas City Community College - Fall, 2017
Ball State New Music Festival - Muncie, IN - March, 2017
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Georgia Southern University - Feb., 2017
SEAMUS National Conference, GA - February 2016
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2015
International Computer Music Conference, TX - September 2015
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Jacksonville University - September, 2015
SEAMUS National Conference, Blacksburg, VA - March 2015
SPLICE, Kalamazoo, MI - July 2015
Ball State New Music Festival - Muncie, IN - March 2015
National Student Electronic Music Event - Bowling Green University - March, 2015
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2014
Root Signals Electronic Music Conference - Jacksonville University - September, 2014
National Student Electronic Music Event – Georgia Southern University - February, 2014
Threshold Electronic Music Festival – Oberlin Conservatory, OH – February, 2014
The Electro Acoustic Barn Dance – Virginia – Fall 2013
Electronic Music Midwest – Kansas City Community College – Fall 2013
SEAMUS National Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota – Spring 2013
Threshold Electronic Music Festival – Miami University, OH – October 2012
Honors
Cum Laude - Spring 2014
Runner-up for the Allen-Strange Award – Spring 2013
Composition and Performance
Cellular Diffusion (Procedural Live Visual)
Arts Walk - Muncie, IN (2017)
Mammal Gallery (2017)
Strain Ten (Stereo Fixed Audio)
Electronic Music Midwest (2017)
Ball State New Music Festival (2017)
Malleis (Piano and electronics)
Premiered by Keith Kirchoff at SPLICE (2015)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at Root Signals Electronic Music Festival (2015)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at SEAMUS (2016)
Performed by Matheus Rocha at Discordia Album Release Concert (2016)
Studio Study No. 1 (16 Channel Fixed Media)
Premiered at NYCEMF (2015)
International Computer Music Conference (2015)
Electroacoustic Barn Dance (2015)
Melange (Stereo Fixed Media, 6 min.)
Premiered at Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, 2014
Performed at Electronic Music One, BSU, 2014
Performed at N_SEME (2015)
Performed at Ball State New Music Festival (2015)
Performed at SEAMUS (2015)
Clouds (Electric Guitar, Live Audio, Live Video-11 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at Channel Noise, 2014
Performed by Aaron Anderson at the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance, 2014
Signal Error (Electric Guitar, Laptop, and Human interface-7.5 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at the Threshold Festival, 2014
Performed by Aaron Anderson on his Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Bokeh (Trio for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano – 6 min.)
Premiered A. Kinerk, A. Hoerst, and C. Rieger - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Arundo Donax (Bassoon Solo – 6.5 min.)
Premiered by P. Kandel - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Reciprocity (Marimba and Fixed Electronics, 7.5 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson at the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance, Fall 2013
Performed by Aaron Anderson on the Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Performed by Aaron Anderson on Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Discomfort (Stereo Fixed Media, 7.5 min.)
Premiered on Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Presented on Senior Composition Recital, 2014
5 (Violin and Piano Duet, 9.5 min.)
Premiered by Lindzy Volk and Aaron Anderson - Student Composer Forum BSU, 2012
Performed by Timothy Barnett - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Rosewood Reflections (Marimba Solo, 3 min.)
Premiered by Aaron Anderson - Student Composer Forum BSU, 2013
Performed by Philip Wells - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Talk to Me (Improvisational Laptop Duet, 8 min.)
Premiered by Chris Rieger and Aaron Anderson at the Threshold Festival, 2012
Performed by Chris Rieger and Aaron Anderson - Senior Composition Recital, 2014
Bits and Pieces (Six channel fixed media, 4.5 min.)
Premiered at Student Composer Forum, 2012
Presented at the SEAMUS National Conferences, 2013
Presented at Electronic Music Midwest, 2013
Discography
Strain Ten, METropolis Volume 2
Microbial Surfaces, SEAMUS Electroacoustic Miniatures 2015: Sonic Haikus
Malleis, EMPiRES
Ensembles and Performance
Ensemble AMP – Percussion and Electric Guitar
Michael Fiday, It Shakes My Teeth (Percussion)
Rzewski, Coming Together (Percussion)
Brendon Randal-Meyers, Double Double (Percussion)
Reich, 2x5 (Percussion)
Andriessen, Worker’s Union (Electric Guitar)
Glass, Music in Fifths (Electric Guitar)
Lisa Coons, Entropion (Electric Guitar)
BSU New Music Ensemble – Percussion and Electric Guitar
Seung-Ah Oh, Fragments (Electric Guitar)
Andriessen, Worker’s Union (Vibraphone)
References
Dr. Curtis Roads - Professor of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara - [email protected]
Dr. Peter Vorlaender - Dawesome Founder - Hamburg - [email protected]
John Fillwalk - Senior Director of Hybrid Technologies, Institute for Digital Intermedia Art,
Ball State University - [email protected]
Dr. Karl Yerkes - Lecturer of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara - [email protected]
Dr. John Thompson - Professor of Music Technology, Georgia Southern University -
[email protected]