Meet the Artist series features a chat with Jaime Oliver, the winner of Feta Prize in Sound Art 2018
FETA Foundation invites you to Meet the Artist, the series of online events dedicated to some of the most talented sound artists nowadays who won out FETA Prize in Sound Art!
On Saturday, May 22, at 6 pm EST on Zoom, we introduce you to JAIME OLIVER.
Jaime is the FETA Prize in Sound Art Winner of 2018. Along with his winning piece “Caracoles IV,” Jaime will present several other sound art projects.
Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!
About Jaime Oliver:
Jaime Oliver La Rosa (Lima, 1979) is a music composer and sound artist working in various ares of computer music and electronic arts. His work includes music for instruments, interactive sistems, live sound performance, as well as sound objects and installations, computer musical instruments and open source software development. He has also collaborated with various artists making music for video, cinema, theater, and performance art. His academic research focuses on the changes in how our concepts of musical instruments have changed over the course of the 20th century as well as the role played by Latin America in the creation of musical Avant Gardes. He has created the open source Silent Drum and MANO controllers and instruments, that use computer vision techniques to continuously track and classify hand gestures. He is also developing [notes] a system for computer assisted notation and generative music in Pure Data and LilyPond.
His work has been featured in many international festivals and conferences. Some recognitions include scholarships and grants from the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the University of California, Meet the Composer and the Ministry of Culture of Spain, and composition and research residencies at ZKM and IRCAM. He has been awarded prizes for electronic arts FILE PRIX LUX 2010 from FILE Festival, the 2009 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, a GIGA-HERTZ-PREIS 2010 musical innovation prize from the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics, the 2019 FETA sound art prize from the Foundation for Emerging Technologies in the Arts, and the Frances Densmore best article prize from the American Musical Instrument Society AMIS.
Oliver obtained a PhD in Computer Music from the University of California, San Diego (2011) where he studied with Miller Puckette and was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University & the CMC in New York. He is currently Associate Professor of Composition at NYU and co-director of the NYU Waverly Labs for Computing and Music.
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Moderator: Nevena Stanić Kovačević
Listen to “Caracoles IV:” http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/caracoles-iv-2018
More information about
Jaime Oliver: http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/
Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/
FETA Prize in Sound Art Archive: https://fetafoundation.org/feta-sound-prize-virtual-archives/