Biography
John Thompson (b. 1974) is a composer and media artist. He works as Assistant Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he serves as Director of the Music Technology program. He
holds a PhD in music composition from the University of California,
Santa Barbara where he studied music and media arts with
JoAnn
Kuchera-Morin, Curtis
Roads,
Stephen Travis Pope, and Marcos
Novak.
His recent creative work explores cross-modal techniques for
combining multiple media in an interactive context. (examples)
Presentations of his music and media art include:
Past Events:
Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin at the 2007
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, February 2007.
Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin at the Pescadrome,
Santa Barbara, California February 2007
Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin as part of Fertile
Sound. Santa Barbara, California January 2007
Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin at the International
Computer Music Conference, November 2006. Tulane
University. New Orleans.
DEFENDEX-ESPGX at the
ACM multimedia conference in Santa Barbara, October
2006
DEFENDEX-ESPGX at the 2006 Inter-Society of Electronic
Art's ZeroOne San Jose
Global Festival of Art on the Edge, August 2006.
DEFENDEX-ESPGX at the 2006 ACM
SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in
Computer Entertainment Technology 2006 in Los Angeles, June
2006.
Sonofusion: for Overtone Violin at the 2006 California
Composers Exchange concerts at: The California Institute of
the Arts, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara, Spring 2006.
Bit Signal Fabric at the 2006 Music
and the Moving Image conference at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, February 2006.
DEFENDEX-ESPGX at the 2006 Spark Festival of Electronic
Music and Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2006.
DEFENDEX-ESPGX at SIGGRAPH
2005 in Los Angeles, August 2005.
