Rob Hamilton

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Title
Associate Professor, Department Head
Department
Arts
Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
  • M.A., Music, Science and Technology, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
  • M.M., Computer Music Composition, The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
  • B.A., Music and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College

Research Interests

Gaming   Music Composition   Music and Technology  

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Biography

Associate Professor of Music and Media, Rob Hamilton joined the Department of Arts at Rensselaer with an appointment in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program in 2015. As a composer, performer, researcher and software designer his creative and analytical practice explores the cognitive implications of the spaces between interactive game environments, network topographies and procedurally-generated sound and music. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer-based Music Theory and Acoustics as well as an M.A. in Music, Science and Technology from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in the Department of Music, a M.M. in Computer Music Composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. in Music and Cognitive Science from Dartmouth College. His music, writings and research have been presented at international academic conferences, in concert at festivals and galleries, as well as at commercial venues and trade shows including SIGGRAPH, AES, IEEE VR, GDC, ACH CHI, ISEA, NIME, SMC, ICAD, Ircam Forum, CMMR, SEAMUS, NACVGM and ICMC, and published in journals such as IEEE Access, JNMR, Leonardo Music, JAES, JMUI, and Organised Sound.

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Contact Information

  110 8th St, Troy, NY 12180

  518-276-8083

Research
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List of Publications (52)
In 2023
52

Real-time musical performance across and within extended reality environments. R Hamilton The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153 (3_supplement), A35-A35, 2023.

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In 2021
51

Music in extended realities. L Turchet, R Hamilton, A C amci IEEE Access 9, 15810-15832, 2021.

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In 2020
50

Audio-first VR: New perspectives on musical experiences in virtual environments. A C amc , R Hamilton Journal of New Music Research 49 (1), 1-7, 2020.

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od: Composing Spatial Multimedia for the Web. C C akmak, R Hamilton Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 68 (10), 747-755, 2020.

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In 2019
48

Coretet: a 21st century virtual interface for musical expression. R Hamilton 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research ..., 2019.

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Trois Machins de la Gra ce Aimante: A virtual reality string quartet. R Hamilton Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, New York, 2019.

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Composing spatial music with Web audio and WebVR. C C akmak, R Hamilton Proc. Web Audio Conf, 1-5, 2019.

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45

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface. C Espeleta, J Yang, O Corral, J Moody, XIE Ran, JC Smith, R Hamilton US Patent App. 29/600,456, 2019.

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Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface. C Espeleta, J Yang, O Corral, J Moody, XIE Ran, JC Smith, R Hamilton US Patent App. 29/600,461, 2019.

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Collaborative and competitive futures for virtual reality music and sound. R Hamilton 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 1510-1512, 2019.

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Coretet: A dynamic virtual musical instrument for the twenty-first century. R Hamilton 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 1395-1395, 2019.

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Mediated musical interactions in virtual environments. R Hamilton New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction, 243-257, 2019.

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Coretet: A 21st Century Virtual Reality Musical Instrument for Solo and Networked Ensemble Performance. R Hamilton 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 1305-1306, 2019.

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In 2018
39

Nething: An Educational Open-source Web-based Graphical User Interface for Controlling Ambisonic And Wave Field Speaker Arrays. I Rios, R Hamilton ICMC, 2018.

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In 2017
38

Musical sonification of super high frequency lighting. O C C akmak, R Hamilton ICMC, 2017.

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37

Synthetic musical instrument with performance-and/or skill-adaptive score tempo. R Hamilton, AS Chaudhary, A Lazier, JC Smith US Patent 9,620,095, 2017.

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madBPM: A Modular Multimodal Environment for Data-Driven Composition And Sonification. KM Fox, J Stewart, R Hamilton ICMC, 2017.

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35

Historical Virtualization: Analog and Digital Concerns in the Recreation, Modeling and Preservation of Contemporary Piano Repertoire. C Nanou, R Hamilton Leonardo Music Journal, 27-31, 2017.

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Interactive Music and Media at Rensselaer: Studio Report 2017. R Hamilton, C Bahn ICMC, 2017.

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In 2016
33

Gesture-based collaborative virtual reality performance in carillon. R Hamilton, C Platz Proceedings of the 2016 international computer music conference, 337-340, 2016.

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In 2015
32

Designing Next-Gen Academic Curricula for Game-Centric Procedural Audio and Music. R Hamilton Audio Engineering Society Conference: 56th International Conference: Audio ..., 2015.

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Perceptual coherence as an analytic for procedural music and audio mappings in virtual space. R Hamilton 2015 IEEE 2nd VR Workshop on Sonic Interactions for Virtual Environments ..., 2015.

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30

Synthetic multi-string musical instrument with score coded performance effect cues and/or chord sounding gesture capture. R Hamilton, N Kruge, G Wang US Patent 9,035,162, 2015.

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29

World stage: Crowdsourcing paradigm for expressive social mobile music. G Wang, S Salazar, J Oh, R Hamilton Journal of New Music Research 44 (2), 112-128, 2015.

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28

Measuring the Effectiveness of Sonified Crossmodal Attribute Pairings Using Contour Matching, Symmetry and Perceived Similarity. R Hamilton ICMC, 2015.

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In 2014
27

Musical sonification of avatar physiologies, virtual flight and gesture. R Hamilton Sound, Music, and Motion: 10th International Symposium, CMMR 2013, Marseille ..., 2014.

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Perceptually Coherent Mapping Schemata for Virtual Space and Musical Method. R Hamilton Stanford University, 2014.

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The procedural sounds and music of ECHO:: Canyon. R Hamilton ICMC, 2014.

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In 2013
24

Sonifying Game-Space Choreographies With UDKOSC. R Hamilton NIME, 446-449, 2013.

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In 2011
23

Advancements in actuated musical instruments. D Overholt, E Berdahl, R Hamilton Organised Sound 16 (2), 154-165, 2011.

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Social composition: Musical data systems for expressive mobile music. R Hamilton, J Smith, G Wang Leonardo Music Journal 21, 57-64, 2011.

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UDKOSC: An immersive musical environment. R Hamilton ICMC, 2011.

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Multi-modal musical environments for mixed-reality performance. R Hamilton, JP Caceres, C Nanou, C Platz Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 4, 147-156, 2011.

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In 2009
19

Building interactive networked musical environments using q3osc. R Hamilton Audio engineering society conference: 35th international conference: Audio ..., 2009.

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Stanford laptop orchestra (slork). G Wang, NJ Bryan, J Oh, R Hamilton ICMC, 2009.

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Smule= Sonic Media: An Intersection of the Mobile, Musical, and Social. G Wang, G Essl, J Smith, S Salazar, PR Cook, R Hamilton, R Fiebrink, ... ICMC, 2009.

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For Jean-Claude:[re] Presenting Duet for One Pianist. C Nanou, R Hamilton ICMC, 2009.

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In 2008
15

To the edge with china: Explorations in network performance. JP Ca ceres, R Hamilton, D Iyer, C Chafe, G Wang ARTECH 2008: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Arts ..., 2008.

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q3osc: or how i learned to stop worrying and love the game. R Hamilton Proceedings of the international computer music association conference, 2008.

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Q3osc or: How I Learned to Stopworrying and Love the Bomb Game. R Hamilton ICMC, 2008.

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In 2007
12

Maps and Legends: Designing FPS-Based Interfaces for Multi-user Composition, Improvisation and Immersive Performance. R Hamilton International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, 478-486, 2007.

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maps and legends: FPS-Based Interfaces for Composition and Immersive Performance. R Hamilton ICMC, 2007.

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Back to the Sea: a Software Realization of Dexter Morrill's Sea Songs. R Hamilton ICMC, 2007.

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In 2006
9

Bioinformatic feedback: performer bio-data as a driver for real-time composition. R Hamilton Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression ..., 2006.

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Bioinformatic response data as a compositional driver. R Hamilton ICMC, 2006.

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In 2005
7

init. R Hamilton .

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Score for Tele-harmonium. R Hamilton .

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The jChing: a Java-Based Algorithmic Composition Tool. R Hamilton ICMC, 2005.

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Sound and movie examples-issue 16 (2). D Overholt, E Berdahl, R Hamilton, PA Kollias Organised Sound 16 (2), 202, 0.

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Networked Gaming Platforms as Musical Performance Environments. R Hamilton .

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Conlon Nancarrow: The First Computer Music Composer. RK HAMILTON .

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MADBPM: MUSICAL AND AUDITORY DISPLAY FOR BIOLOGICAL PREDICTIVE MODELING. KM Fox, J Stewart, R Hamilton .

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