Current Projects

§ Projects

Different products, one way of working.

Each project below is presented as evidence of the whole lifecycle: the problem, the tradeoffs, what shipped, what broke, and what it taught.

Voice conditioned audiovisual installation

Windchime
Gray Area NeurIPS CCRMA, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics Stanford University
Details

Shown at Gray Area, San Francisco; accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI, Sydney Paper coauthored with Celeste Betancur, CCRMA, Stanford University.

Audio language models retrieve real stems from a closed, artist authored corpus and render them as live coded sound, generative visuals and monome light.

Languages PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptp5.jsThree.jsStrudel (pattern DSL)HTML/CSSShell
Core skills Audio language models (CLAP, CLaMP 3) Speech recognition (faster-whisper) Vector retrieval (FAISS) Live coded audio (Strudel) Generative visuals (p5.js, Three.js) Hardware control (monome) Offline, unattended deployment
May 2026 to present
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Neural audio instruments for a screenless pedal

HRNSXTN x RDMSXN
MUTEK, international festival of digital creativity and electronic music Elk Audio Roland Future Design Lab Music Hackspace ISMIR 2026, Abu Dhabi ISMIR, International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Details

Music Hackspace × MUTEK hackathon: 1st, Elk Audio Challenge; 2nd, Roland Future Design Lab; presented at MUTEK Forum, Montréal 2026; ISMIR 2026 Late-Breaking Demo, Abu Dhabi

Team THIRI's project from a two podium weekend at the Music Hackspace × MUTEK hackathon in Montréal: a voice leading harmonizer that fits a stompbox, and a latent granular instrument where a folder of recordings becomes a playable sound world: whatever you play comes back one bar later, revoiced through that corpus. Both live on the Elk Stomp, a screenless embedded pedal.

Languages C++PythonTypeScriptShell
Core skills Knowledge distillation Neural audio codecs (music2latent) Embedded realtime C++ (JUCE) On device inference (RTNeural) ARM NEON int8 search Cross compilation (Docker, 32 bit ARM) Granular synthesis Evaluation design
August 2026 to present
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Live audiovisual assistant for Ableton

Lichtspiel
AIMS 2026, Berklee AI Music Summit Music Hackspace Berklee College of Music
Details

Built at the AIMS 2026 hackathon, Music Hackspace × Berklee AI Music Summit, Boston, June 2026

A live audiovisual instrument for Ableton: session aware p5.js scenes generated at authoring time, validated by a five gate chain, and played from a monome grid and arc, with no model call ever on the render path.

Languages TypeScriptJavaScriptp5.jsPythonMax (Max for Live patching)HTML/CSS
Core skills Ableton Live integration (Max for Live) Realtime WebSocket bridge (Node) Generative visuals (p5.js) LLM authoring behind validation gates Audio analysis (CLAP, librosa) Hardware control (monome)
May to June 2026
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Transfer learning for drum audio style classification

Probing the World for Groove
ISMIR 2025, Daejeon KAIST ISMIR, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Universiteit Leiden LIACS, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Kunstinstituut Melly
Details

ISMIR 2025 Late-Breaking Demo, KAIST, Daejeon; MSc thesis, LIACS, Leiden University, defended at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

A comparison of a drum specific CNN and frozen PaSST transfer learning across 18,264 two bar grooves and 74 style labels.

Languages Python
Core skills PyTorch PyTorch Lightning CUDA Cloud GPU training (A100, L4) Transformer modification (PaSST heads) CNN architecture design Transfer learning Audio augmentation
Thesis June 2025; ISMIR September 2025
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