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mcaren [at] stanford.edu

MATTHEW

CAREN

i'm a researcher, engineer & artist.

i'm fascinated by human expression—and how technology can 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