Robin
Touch and movement become part of a shared musical process between performer and instrument.
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My work explores how communication unfolds through music and technology.
I build instruments and systems that listen, translate, and respond—tracing what happens to meaning as it moves between bodies, media, machines, and environments.
A practice in listening and exchange
01 — Selected work
Projects
Three systems, three forms of exchange.
A Machine for Misunderstanding
A listening study on what changes when emotional language is translated into sound.
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Listener
A room's sounds are reshaped and returned, becoming part of what the system hears next.
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Independent research
Related inquiries, not project appendices.
Two studies extend my interest in how systems perceive, interpret, and shape human expression.
01
A Structural Spectrum of Contingency
Digital musical instruments often treat bodily movement as sensor noise. Recordings from Robin, a custom gesture-based instrument, show that expressive movements—including rapid rolls—can appear noise-like in conventional analyses while retaining structured, nonlinear patterns. Across nine movement channels, these findings reveal that musical gestures are more organized than simple random fluctuations, and that spectral analysis alone can miss this structure.
02Discipline Without a Subject
This paper examines AI alignment through the lens of Foucault’s theory of discipline. Across several language models, we find that preference-based training can make safe behavior dependent on surveillance cues, reduce linguistic diversity, and increase agreement with false claims from apparent authorities. These results suggest that behavioral conditioning may produce compliance without stable ethical or epistemic commitments. We argue that AI safety should look beyond external incentives toward systems whose reasoning can be independently verified.
03 — About
A listening practice
I work across music, technology, and research to explore how people and systems make meaning together.