Thanassis Rikakis
thanassis.rikakis@asu.edu
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Director and Professor
Arts, Media and Engineering Program
Thanassis Rikakis is Professor and Director of the Arts Media and
Engineering (AME) Program at Arizona State University.
His research work and publications are in the areas of computer mediated
arts and experiential systems, pitch perception, auditory feedback for
rehabilitation, computer music tools for arts education, multimedia
composition algorithms, and interdisciplinary graduate education. His
educational background is in music composition and computer music. He has
composed works for acoustic ensembles, works for computer as well as music
for film, theater and television. He studied composition and computer music
with Chou Wen Chung, Brad Garton, Roger Reynolds, Karel Husa and Theodore
Antoniou. He attended composition seminars with Ianis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez
and Olivier Messiaen. He is Principal Investigator of a recently awarded NSF
IGERT grant for interdisciplinary research and education in experiential
media, Co-PI of a current NSF CISE Research Infrastructure grant for motion
analysis and PI for the motione project that premiered in April 2005 and has
received an NEA Technology: Resources for Change grant.
