WILLIAM BRENT – Computer Musician, Assistant Professor of Audio Technology at American University in Washington DC

William Brent is a computer musician and Assistant Professor of Audio Technology at American University in Washington DC. His creative work is spread across the areas of experimental music performance, sound art, and instrument design, and involves various combinations of human- robotic- and computer-realized sound. Independently and in collaboration with others, he develops and operates real-time audiovisual manipulation software for varied inter-media performance works. His current lines of research include new methods for physical control of synthesized audio, signal analysis techniques for quantifying timbre, and aspects of human timbre perception. As a programmer, he has developed software tools for use in Pd, including timbreID: an open source library of objects for real-time timbre analysis and identification, and DILib: a set of objects designed for the development of novel digital instruments.