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mcaren [at] stanford.edu

MATTHEW

CAREN

i'm a researcher, engineer & artist.

i'm fascinated by human expression—and how technologies help us create, manipulate, and understand sound.

my work spans HCI, musical instrument design, cognitive science, art installations, electronics, and AI research.

i'm currently a phd student at stanford.

i am a hertz fellow and steve jobs archive fellow.

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

work[1]

i do not believe in separating my science, art, and engineering. they are lost children of the same great continent [2]

2026 Unconventional Communication, CogSci / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil workshop
2026 blood computer, tiat Gallery / San Francisco, CA exhibition
2026 Lagu Hantu, NIME / London, UK paper
2026 Lagu Hantu, Mission Dolores Park / San Francisco, CA installation
2026 Two Sparrows, Spatial Audio Gathering / Leeds, UK composition
2026 grief (for AI & live sewage), tiat Gallery / San Francisco, CA installation
2025 Two Sparrows, Transitions, Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics / Stanford, CA performance
2025 MP3 player, Future Finds, Bathers Library / Oakland, CA exhibition
2025 Accidental instruments: Finding expressiveness in desks, parks, and AI's shortcomings, ICMC / Cambridge, MA talk
2025 A Computational Model of Human Vocal Imitation, CogSci / San Francisco, CA paper
2025 Sound and Language, MIT Museum / Cambridge, MA talk
2025 Melia: An Expressive Harmonizer at the Limits of AI, NIME / Canberra, Australia paper
2024 Sketching With Your Voice: "Non-Phonorealistic" Rendering of Sounds via Vocal Imitation, SIGGRAPH Asia / Tokyo, Japan paper
2024 melia, Center for the Arts at MIT / Cambridge, MA performance
2024 Real-time In-browser Time Warping for Live Score Following, Web Audio Conference / West Lafayette, IN paper
2021 Étude, Marvin Hamlisch International Film Scoring Awards / Stamford, CT composition
2021 Hyperfest, Opera of the Future, MIT Media Lab / Cambridge, MA installation
2020 The KeyWI: An Expressive and Accessible Electronic Wind Instrument, New Interfaces for Musical Expression / Birmingham, UK paper

at stanford, i research in the cognitive tools lab [judy fan] and shapelab [sean follmer].


i went to college at MIT, where i studied computer science, music, math, and literature. i worked on machine listening systems [eran egozy], poetry and AI [joshua bennett], and vocal communication [josh tenenbaum, jrk].


i'm one half of bad science.


photocopy of matt caren