Dr. Ted Apel
Ted Apel is an electronic sound installation artist and computer music researcher who teaches classes in music technology. He received his MA degree in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College where he studied with Jon Appleton, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff. He completed his PhD in Computer Music from the University of California San Diego where he studied with Dr. Miller Puckette, Dr. Shlomo Dubnov, and Dr. F. Richard Moore.
As a sound artist, he has exhibited his work at festivals and exhibits including the SoundCulture Festival in San Francisco; the Ussachevsky Festival in Claremont, California; the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland; the Sound Symposium in St. John's Newfoundland; the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria; the Academy of Arts, Berlin; the Boise Art Museum, and the Yellowstone Art Museum.
He was twice a prizewinner at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001, and won the grand prize in the 2004 Idaho Triennial.
Dr. Apel’s research involves musical feature retention during time-scaling of musical sound. He has published with Dr. Miller Puckette on real-time sound analysis algorithms, and with Dr. Shlomo Dubnov on audio segmentation.
He created sounds and music for toys, video games, and multimedia projects and programmed audio for video games in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993-1995. He is the former technical director for the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California San Diego from 1995-2004 where he worked on numerous new media art projects.
He is represented by the Kristi Engle Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
Send E-Mail to Dr. Apel (tedapel@boisestate.edu)
Ted Apel’s website: http://vud.org