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Curtis Bahn Curtis Bahn, composer, improviser and string-bass player, specializes in live electronic performance using gestural controllers. In his words, "I consider my performance system to be both musical composition and instrument. It is a work in progress, integrating my backgrounds in electro-acoustic music composition, free improvisation and string-bass performance. It incorporates pre-composed materials, interactive compositional algorithms, and real-time digital signal processing routines in such a way that I can freely intermix these technological elements in my improvisational performance." His music has been presented at venues ranging from small alternative clubs and galleries to major international festivals. Among the venues are the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Performance Studies International (PSI), World Acoustic Ecology Conference, Styrian Autumn Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Musik Aktuell, Saalfeldon Jazz Festival, Mobius, Zeitgeist, Somerville Theater, Museum of Fine Arts and The Voix in Boston; Engine 27, Galapagos, Tonic, Context, and the Kitchen in New York City. His music is recorded on EMF Media, Sony, CRI, Princeton, Wavelet, Boston Cyberarts, and C74 labels. He has worked with a wide range of performers including jazz players Bill Evans (sax), Wolfgang Muthspiel, Adam Makovitch, Jim Beard, Marc Johnson, Adam Nussbaum, Rashied Ali, Jed Levi, Peter Madson, Satoshi Takeishi, and contemporary musicians / composers Tom Hamilton, Thomas Buckner, Eve Beglarian, "Zipperspy" Maria Moran, Richard Lerman, Chris Brown, Warren Burt, Dan Trueman, Perry Cook, Mari Kimura, Ron Lessard, James Coleman, and others. Bahn's recent activities have involved him in the creation of a family of spherical speakers and sensor-speaker arrays (SenSAs) with Dan Trueman, Senior Researcher at the Columbia Computer Music Center, and Perry Cook, Professor of Computer Science and Music at Princeton University. He has also designed numerous gestural controllers for dance and live multi-media performance. He has presented his musical performance inventions through lectures and demonstrations at the MIT Media Lab, Computer Music Center at Columbia University, Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI2001), International Computer Music Conference 2000, and National Conference of the Acoustical Society of America 2000. Bahn is currently on the faculty of the Integrated Electronic Arts Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (iEAR studios). He lives in upstate New York and travels extensively as performer and composer.

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