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
Performance based research and critical practice in collaborative, networked music improvisation, recording and installations
CV
download CV
download Master of Fine Arts thesis - Experiments in Telepresent Music Improvisation
Current Research:
visual interface concept design for online music collaboration:
shared telematic augmented reality environment:
CYBERJAMMER I m m e r s i v e
Online jams on pubic servers
Draft of a proposed college course on telematic music improvisation
Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts New Media Thesis Research
MFA Thesis Project: 4-Way Telematic Concert: 100 Meeting Places
(with 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
Documentation Movies
MFA SHOW: EMERGENCE 2007
Clip from open_borders
Clip on YouTube
UCSC Digital Arts Showcase
CYBERJAMMER debut in 2006: BLINK
PUBLICITY
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
blurb
Media on MFA Exhibition: Emergence 2007
Good Times June 14-20, 2007
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.
Santa Cruz Sentinel June 8, 2007, page 8
Metro Santa Cruz June 6-13, 2007
UCSC Currents June 4, 2007
Contact
- EMAIL: myFirstInitial myLastName AT UCSC dot edu