Kieran Coulter

Kieran Coulter is a musician and computer scientist working in audio engineering, music production, and systems R&D for music education, gestural audiovisuals, virtual reality, and more. He has produced albums and EPs ranging from Impressionist piano solo and electroacoustic works, to ambient, lounge, and techno electronic music styles. He has performed in contexts as diverse as the ambient stage of the World Electronic Music Festival near Toronto, Canada (2000), piano solo in Verneuil-sur-Avre, France (2007), and electroacoustic in Mons, Belgium (2014). He has assisted in the production of electronic music events in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto from 2000-2005, forming 7th Sun Productions which promoted events in Ottawa from 2002-2005, and will begin promoting events on the West Coast in October.

He holds a BMus in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Ottawa, an ARCT in Piano Performance with the Royal Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

On the technical side of things, he has built and tuned sound systems since 2002, and developed software and hardware for piano education, audiovisual gestural interfaces, virtual reality audio, transposable Just Intonation, and wearable computer interfaces.

Kieran will be demonstrating and speaking about the first release of the GestureLab system, a module called “PresetOne”. This module uses Kinect or Playstation Move devices to affect synthesis panning, modulation and volume on the X, Y, and Z axes respectively, and employs a drawing routine on the projection system similar to calligraphy.

Here’s a video of an early prototype of PresetOne, captured during a performance at the University of British Columbia as part of the IMPART research groupconcert.