Music, Technology, and Visual Media

The field of Music, Technology, and Visual Media explores the intersections of musical creation, computation, engineering, sound, and digital media. It brings together artistic practice and technological research, treating technology not merely as a production tool but as an integral part of musical thinking, composition, performance, and experimentation.

Research and creative work in the field encompass experimental and electroacoustic composition, computational sound analysis and transformation, digital signal processing, artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches to music, algorithmic composition, interactive systems, spatial and immersive audio, digital musical instruments, sound art, audiovisual media, creative coding, and technology-based approaches to notation and performance.

The field encourages interdisciplinary work connecting music with computer science, engineering, mathematics, cognition, and the visual arts. Students and researchers may develop new tools and systems for musical creation and analysis, investigate human interaction with musical technologies, explore new relationships between sound, image, space, and movement, or combine technological research with original artistic work.

Teaching and research are based on a combination of theoretical inquiry, practical experimentation, and research-creation. The program provides a framework for musicians, composers, researchers, and technologically oriented creators who wish to investigate how emerging technologies can expand the possibilities of musical thought, expression, performance, and research.