Georg Essl

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Georg Essl (born March 1, 1972 in Graz ) is an Austrian computer scientist and musician who works in the field of human-machine interfaces, acoustics, mobile interaction and mobile music. He teaches computer science and music at the University of Michigan.

life and work

Georg Essl studied telematics at the Graz University of Technology and studied piano and composition at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz . After graduating with a degree in engineering, he worked for the newly founded company Hyperwave, which developed database-based web server technology. This was followed by a doctorate at Princeton University in the United States, where he wrote a dissertation under the supervision of Perry Cook on the subject of physical modeling of musical sounds, which developed a new sound synthesis method now known as Banded Waveguides .

After graduating in 2002, he taught computer science, music and digital art at the University of Florida . In 2003 he went to Dublin, Ireland to develop new electronic musical instruments with Sile O'Modhrain at the newly founded MIT Media Lab Europe . During this time a number of new types of musical instruments were created. One of the most successful PebbleBox instruments was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2005. After the Media Lab was closed in 2005, he conducted research at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories , an affiliated institute of the Technical University of Berlin , where he did pioneering work on the establishment of mobile music-making. Conventional programmable cell phones are used as interactive musical instruments.

He is one of the co-founders of the "MoPho" movement. MoPhos are mobile device orchestras. Together with Ge Wang and Henri Penttinen he founded the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra and was later also the founder and director of the Berlin Mobile Phone Orchestra and the Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble. He was an advisor and consultant for the iPhone app company Smule, which among other things developed mobile musical instruments such as the Ocarina and Leaf Trombone.

Since 2009 he has been teaching computer science and music at the University of Michigan . He is the architect and developer of the mobile music platforms SpeedDial and urMus and has contributed topological and structural theoretical ideas to sound synthesis. He has shown that circle maps are interesting for sound synthesis as non-linear alienations of linear oscillators. His sound synthesis methods, such as banded waveguides, are used by composers such as Paul Lansky, Brad Garton, Matt Burtner, Juraj Kojs and Ted Coffey and can be found in many synthesis programs such as Synthesis Toolkit (STK) , Percolate or ChucK .

Georg Essl is not related to the computer music composer Karlheinz Essl .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Victoria & Albert Museum - Touch Me Exhibition
  2. ^ Rohs, M., Essl, G., Roth, M. "CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid Tracking" in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME), pp. 31-36, Paris, France, June, 2006. (PDF; 1 kB)
  3. ↑ MobileSTK (PDF; 104 kB)
  4. ↑ Essl, G., Rohs, M. “Interactivity for Mobile Music Making”, Organized Sound 14: 2 197-207, 2009 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  5. ↑ Do Mobile Phones dream of Electronic Orchestras (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  6. ↑ "Mopho on Top" - The Berlin Mobile Phone Orchestra plays for the Long Night of Science 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de
  7. ↑ BBC: iPhone orchestra ready for debut
  8. ↑ Wired: Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones
  9. ↑ urMus : A meta-environment for the development of mobile interaction
  10. ↑ cyberinstruments created via physical modeling synthesis ( memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Catalog of physical models in compositions  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cybermusik.net
  11. ↑ Banded Waveguide Class in STK
  12. ↑ Banded Waveguides in PeRColate (PDF; 25 kB)
  13. ↑ Banded Waveguides in ChucK
personal data
SURNAME Essl, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist and mobile art pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz