Roth Michaels - Director of New Media
Improviser and composer Roth Michaels spends much of his time exploring ways that digital technolog and new media can inform the compositional process while staying true to both his background in jazz and his love for acoustic music and the sounds of the natural world. Roth has been a member of many jazz, new music, and cross-genre imrovisation ensembles, ranging in size from duos to big bands, in cities across New England and New York. In addition to developing his own solo electroacoustic vibraphone/keyboard act, Roth has most recently been performing with The Dartmouth Contempory Music Lab, Punkte, and the Mary Anne Driscoll Septet. At times Roth's exploration into performance, compositnal forms, and the relationship betweeen audience, improvisers, and live electronics has lead him to explore other media outside the concert hall from his interactive installations to performances in non-traditional spaces.
After receiving his B.A. in music composition from Brandeis University in 2007, Roth co-taught a graduate seminar on composing music with live electronics using Max/MSP at Brandeis and has lectured elsewhere on topics in electronic music, acoustics, and improvisation. Currently pursuing an M.A. in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College, Roth is researching and developing new real-time digital signal processing algorithms to compliment artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for performing with live electronics. Roth has studied composition, jazz, and improvisation with Mary Anne Driscoll, Al Delgado, Bob Nieske, Derek Hurst, Eric Chasalow, Tom Hall, Hans Tutschku, and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovaky and is studying DSP with Michael Casey.
