Aurie Hsu (United States)
Composition Professor
Composition
COURSE LANGUAGE
Aurie teaches in:
Composition/lecture areas:
- Digital audio composition
- musical gesture
- composer/choreographer collaboration
- electroacoustic music performance practice
- prepared/extended piano techniques
- Human-computer interaction in music
- Experimental music
- improvisation in performance
- Developer of the RAKS (Remote electroAcoustic Kinesthetic Sensing) system, a wireless
sensor interface for belly dance. Created with composer, Steven Kemper
Aurie Hsu is a composer, pianist, and dancer. She composes acoustic, electroacoustic, and
interactive music, and collaborates often with musicians, choreographers, and designers of
musical robots. Her works have been presented around the U.S. at ICMC, SEAMUS, SIGCHI,
NIME, MOCO, Pixelerations, Third Practice Festival, Acoustica 21, and Art Basel Miami, as
well as abroad at the Logos Tetrahedron Concert Hall (Belgium), Cite International des
Arts (France), and the TivoliVredenburg (The Netherlands).
In collaboration with composer
Steven Kemper, Aurie performs with the RAKS system, a wireless sensor interface designed
specifically for belly dance. Pieces featuring the RAKS system have received awards from the
Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology Commission and the International Computer Music
Association.
Aurie is currently Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the
Oberlin Conservatory.
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