Faculty

Slide 1AJAY KAPURDIRECTOR OF MTIID & Associate Provost for Creative Technologies Ajay Kapur defines himself as a “Musical Scientist.” The “Scientist” in him organizes experiments on how computer programming, electrical engineering, and digital signal processing can be used in artistic practices. The “Musician” in him gathers all the current technology from his laboratory into modules that can be used in …

ÜBELDROHNE (2015)

Meason Wiley & Amber Lepley Übeldrohne is an electro-acoustic instrument that utilizes four bass strings, motors, and slide levers to create polyphonic bass drones. Combining elements of a traditional electric bass and pedal steel, as well as more unique augmented instruments such as Andrew McPherson’s magnetic resonator piano and Trimpin’s adapted piano “singer” instruments,  the Übeldrone was designed to create low frequency …