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mcaren [at] stanford.edu

MATTHEW

CAREN

i'm a researcher, engineer, designer & artist.

i explore human expression—and the technologies that understand, augment, and inhibit it.

my work spans musical instrument design, cognitive science, large-scale installation, AI research, composition, electrical engineering, and poetry.

i am a hertz fellow and steve jobs archive fellow.

i went to college at MIT, where i studied computer science, mathematics, music, and literature.

i'm currently a phd student at stanford.

from grief (for AI & live sewage), tiat gallery

selected work[1]

i do not believe in separating my science, art, and engineering. they are lost children of the same great continent.

2026 Two Sparrows [performance], Spatial Audio Gathering / Leeds, UK
2026 grief (for AI & live sewage), tiat Gallery / San Francisco, CA
2025 Two Sparrows, Transitions, Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics / Stanford, CA
2025 Future Finds, Bathers Library / Oakland, CA
2025 Accidental instruments: Finding expressiveness in desks, parks, and AI’s shortcomings, ICMC / Cambridge, MA
2025 A Computational Model of Human Vocal Imitation, CogSci / San Francisco, CA
2025 Sound and Language, MIT Museum / Cambridge, MA
2025 Melia: An Expressive Harmonizer at the Limits of AI, New Interfaces for Musical Expression / Canberra, Australia
2024 Sketching With Your Voice: "Non-Phonorealistic" Rendering of Sounds via Vocal Imitation, SIGGRAPH Asia / Tokyo, Japan
2024 melia [performance], Center for the Arts at MIT / Cambridge, MA
2024 Real-time In-browser Time Warping for Live Score Following, Web Audio Conference / West Lafayette, IN
2021 Étude, Marvin Hamlisch International Film Scoring Awards / Stamford, CT
2021 Hyperfest, Opera of the Future, MIT Media Lab / Cambridge, MA
2020 The KeyWI: An Expressive and Accessible Electronic Wind Instrument, New Interfaces for Musical Expression / Birmingham, UK
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