Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician and digital music researcher whose work is dedicated to sound exploration through composition, improvisation, installation, interactive system design, curation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
His work, recognized internationally, is dedicated to personal and collective creative expression through noise, free improvisation and generally electro-acoustic means of production, from the lo-fi of broken electronics to the hi-fi of custom signal processing algorithms.
Recent projects have spanned telematic music, laptop ensemble compositions driven by "human algorithms", improvisation in mixed visual/acoustic/electronic settings, crafting immersive electroacoustic works, interactive sonic installations and designing machine listening methods focused on sound texture and noise.
A major current activity is the improvisational trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, wherein he plays his custom GREIS software designed for on-the-fly spectral and textural sound transformations. Van Nort also collaborates with this group on developing an intelligent system for improvisation, currently as research specialist in music at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. A discussion of these projects was recently acknowledged with the "best paper award" at the 2010 International Computer Music Conference.
Recordings of Van Nort's music can be found on Deep Listening among other experimental music labels, and his writing has recently appeared in Organised Sound and Leonardo Music Journal. He has performed at venues ranging from the [sat] in Montreal, Casa da Musica in Porto with Chris Chafe, The Red Room in Baltimore, Roulette, Harvestworks, the Miller Theatre and the Stone in NYC, at Town Hall (NYC) on intonarumri as part of the Performa futurist biennial, and at EMPAC in Troy, NY. His compositional work has been featured in contexts as disparate as the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) to the Flea theatre's "music with a view" series and the NYC electroacoustic music festival at Elebash Hall. Collaboration has been an important thread of recent work, including Oliveros, Braasch, Francisco Lopez, Stuart Dempster, Chris Chafe, Al Margolis, Ben Miller as well as Michael Century, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and others.
Recent C.V. [pdf]
