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Narrative
Ali Momeni was born in Isfahan, Iran and emigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. He studied composition, improvisation and performance with computers at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies in UC Berkeley under David Wessel and Edmund Campion. He spent three years in Paris where he collaborated with performers and researchers from La Kitchen, Sony CSL and CIRM in Nice. In the past few years, he as also collaborated with artists including Laetitia Sonami, Alvin Curran, Pierre Boulez, Atau Tanaka, Kent Nagano, Peter Mussbach and Shu lea Cheang. He is interested in interactivity in the arts, technologically mediated social interaction, gesture to sound/image mappings, and data-driven search and synthesis techniques. He also remains interested and active in improvisation, musical theater and instrument building.
Specialties
- Real-time Audio
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Real-time Video
- Collaborative Arts
- Music Composition
- Improvisation
- Interactivity Design
- Instrument Building
- Musical Theater
- Contemporary Music
- Social Networks
Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts: Physics and Music, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 1997.
- PhD: Music Composition, University of California in Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2005.
Publications
- Composing instruments: Inventing and performing with generative computer-based instruments: Momeni, Ali, PhD Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 51, 2005. Link
- Dynamic Independent Mapping Layers for Concurrent Control of Audio and Video Synthesis: Momeni, Ali, Cyrille Henry, MIT Press, Computer Music Journal, 30:1 15, 2005. Link
- Facilitating Collective Musical Creativity: Momeni, Ali, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, 2005. Link
- Characterizing and Controlling Musical Material Intuitively with Graphical Models: Momeni, Ali, David Wessel, Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference, 2003. Link
- Analysis of Luciano Berio's Points on a Curve to Find: Momeni, Ali, 2002. Link
- An XML-based SDIF Stream Relationships Language: Momeni, Ali, Matt Wright, Amar Chaudhary,Adrian Freed, Sam Khoury,Ali Momeni, Proceedings of the ICMC Conference, 2001. Link
- Managing Complexity with Explicit Mapping of Gestures to Sound Control with OSC: Momeni, Ali, Matt Wright, Adrian Freed, Ahm Lee, Tim Madden, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2001. Link
- Analysis of Steve Reich's Drumming and his use of African polyrhythms: Momeni, Ali, 2001. Link
Creative Activities
- An[tic]: Interactive video installation, http://alimomeni.net/antic, September 2005
- Frelia: Interactive sound sculpture, http://alimomeni.net/frelia, September 2005
- Net_Derive: Interactive networked sound and video installation, http://alimomeni.net/netderive, October 2006
- What you say, How you say it: Interactve sound installation, http://alimomeni.net/whatyousay, October 2006 - present
- Takemitsu: My Way of Life: Performance in opera, http://alimomeni.net/takemitsu-my-way-life, January 2005
- Preset 153: Interactive sound and video installation, http://alimomeni.net/preset-153, November 2005
- Vaishnava janeto at Eternal Gandhi: Interactive sound installation, http://alimomeni.net/gandhi, July 2004 - present
- An Evening with Bithell and Momeni: Musical theater, http://alimomeni.net/davoodali, November 2002
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