Synthia

photo: Chaim Peter Chester
"Synthia" Cynthia Payne aka Synthany
MFA 2007 (Digital Arts New Media); BA 2005 (Film and Digital Media) - UC Santa Cruz
Networked audio expert, vocalist, educator, improviser, audio and video production, event coordination

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RECENT EVENTS:

December 11-12, 2010: Networked Audio Tech for "Bridging Imaginary Boundaries"

at CU Boulder Jazz Studies in the ATLAS Black Box with NYU (John Gilbert and Tom Beyer), and Indiana-Purdue (Scott Deal)

Summer 2010: Telematic vocal performance - Stanford Laptop Orchestra's Spring Concert (SLOrk)

on "Electrode" (video link) directed by Chris Chafe (CCRMA), with SLOrk, Chafe on daxophone, violin and sax live online from New Jersey, and Synthia Payne (vocals from Denver)

Networked Audio Tech for "Memory: Collaborative Connections in Time & Space"

at CU Boulder Jazz Studies in the ATLAS Black Box with NYU (dir: John Gilbert), and KAIST (dir: Boncheol Goo)

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View CV

download CV

download Master of Fine Arts thesis - Experiments in Telepresent Music Improvisation

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Ongoing Research:

massively multiplayer augmented reality environment:CYBERJAMMER I m m e r s i v e

download a draft of proposed college course on telematic music improvisation

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Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts and New Media Thesis Research

MFA Thesis Project: 4-Way Telematic Concert: 100 Meeting Places

(directed by Pauline Oliveros at Rensselaer Polytechnical, Chris Chafe at Stanford
University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA),
and Sarah Weaver with Soundpainting Live Composition from Loyola-Chicago)

thesis bibliography

thesis abstract

Experiments and Participants

download Master of Fine Arts thesis - Experiments in Telepresent Music Improvisation

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Documentation Movies

MFA SHOW: EMERGENCE 2007

Clip from open_borders

Clip on YouTube

UCSC Digital Arts Showcase

CYBERJAMMER debut in 2006: BLINK

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PUBLICITY

Synthia's latest online music jam on NINBOT

and on NINJAM pubic servers (screenname: Synthany)

Cynthia Payne quoted in MIT Technology Review

Metro Santa Cruz

UC Currents Magazine

Cynthia Payne's research listed in UC Santa Cruz' Profiles in Excellence

sample press release

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Media on MFA Exhibition: Emergence 2007

Good Times June 14-20, 2007 http://www.gtweekly.com/6-14-07/danm-it-2

KSBW Channel 8 June 10-11, 2007 A story aired with interviews of Emergence 2007 artists Synthia Payne and Satadru Sovan on the evening and morning news. http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/13481669/detail.html

Santa Cruz Sentinel June 8, 2007, page 8 http://adserver1.harvestadsdepot.com/stcruzsentnl/ss/064465/

Metro Santa Cruz June 6-13, 2007 http://www.metroactive.com/metro-santa-cruz/06.06.07/danm-0723.html

UCSC Currents June 4, 2007 http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1291

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Contact

• EMAIL: synthia dot payne at gmail dot com