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|name=Thor Kell|
|image=thor_kell.jpg|
|program=MA Music Technology|
|supervisor=Prof. [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]]|
|website=http://tide-pool.ca|
|email=thor[at]tide-pool[dot]ca|
}}

===== Research Interests =====
  * Mapping
  * Human Computer Interaction
  * Music Information Retrieval
  * Algorithmic Composition

===== Academic Background =====
  * B.Sc. (Music / Computer Science) - University of Victoria (Canada) - 2012
  * MA Candidate (Music Technology)- McGill University (Canada) - 2014

===== Past Projects =====
  * Mistify: Dynamically Recreating Xenakis’ Mists.  Paper at CIM 2014.  ([[http://tide-pool.ca/papers/Thor%20Kell%20-%20CIM%202014.pdf|paper]]).
  * Musical Mapping of Two-Dimensional Touch-Based Interfaces.  MA Thesis.  Info is [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/master-of-arts-thesis/|here]].  
  * A High-Level Review of Mappings in Musical iOS Applications.  Poster at SMC/ICMC 2014.  Raw data is [[http://idmil.org/projects/ios_mappings|here]].
  * Empirical Analysis of Track Selection and Ordering in Electronic Dance Music Using Audio Feature Extraction - poster presented at ISMIR 2013. ([[http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/ismir2013/?page_id=143|proceedings]], [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/papers/Thor%20Kell%20+%20George%20Tzanetakis%20-%20ISMIR%202013.pdf|paper]])
   * An Overview of Musical Mappings for iOS Applications - paper presented at SMC 2013. ([[http://www.speech.kth.se/smac-smc-2013/proceedings/SMC2013_Proceedings_online-version.pdf|proceedings]], [[http://tide-pool.ca/papers/Thor%20Kell%20-%20SMC%202013.pdf|paper]])
   * [[http://tide-pool.ca/feminest/|The Feminest]]:  Inferring the gender of bands from text data.  Made at Tufts Hack Day, 2013.  
   * Elvis by Elvis - [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/week-69-5-elvis-by-elvis/|performance]] with Ryan Groves, at ISMIR 2013
   * [[http://tide-pool.ca/tetris-remix/|Tetris-Remix]]:  Generative music using Tetris Attack.  Made at MIT Hacking Arts, 2013.  
   * [[http://tide-pool.ca/beethoven/|What We Talk About When We Talk About Beethoven]]:  Algorithmic composition meets music criticism.  
   * [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/code/leap-re-mi/|Leap Re Mi]]:  Solfege sign synthesis.  Made at McGill Music Hack Day, 2013
   * [[https://github.com/tkell/theultimatemachine|The Ultimate Machine]]:  Self-referential, text-based algorithmic composition.  Made at Boston Music Hack Day, 2012
   * [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/code/the-%CF%84onnetz|The Tonnetz]] - Building a working, cylindrical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz|tonnetz]] for MUMT 619.
   * TimbreSurf:  Controlling concatenative synthesis with a Kinect, Echo Nest Remix, and ChucK.  MUMT 620 class project, 2012
   * [[http://howtodjproperly.appspot.com|How To DJ Properly]]:  Track ordering driven by heuristics from the BBC's Essential Mix.  CSC 475 class project, 2011
   * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lweYaoaSp1o|Kinduct]]:  'Conducting' using a Kinect.  UVic Music Hack Day, 2011
   * [[http://instantmusicvideo.appspot.com/|instantmusicvideo]]: Mash up SoundCloud audio and Vimeo / YouTube video.  Summer hack, 2010.

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===== Professional Experience =====
  * Junior Engineer / [[http://echonest.github.com/remix|Remix API]] maintainer - The Echo Nest / Spotify
  * Research Assistant / Programmer - CHISEL Group, University of Victoria
  * Web Development Intern - SoundCloud

===== Volunteer Experience =====
  * Co-organizer - [[https://vimeo.com/58334679|McGill Music Hack Day 2013]]
  * Organizer - [[http://getexcitedandmaketechno.tumblr.com|Get Excited And Make Techno]], 2012
  * Organizer - UVic Music Hack Day [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnyWOrGFyec|2011]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKWzgtJC7S0|2012]]
  * Co-organizer - UVic Music Track Day 2012
  * Organizer - UVic Composition Sprint 2012

===== Music Projects =====
  * Production - [[https://soundcloud.com/fractal|SoundCloud]], [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/dreamcity|Dream|City]], [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/eleven|eleven]], [[http://thtmpst.tumblr.com|TH TMPST]], [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/theworldoutside|The World Outside]], [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/iterate|iterate]].
  * Composing - [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/music/compositions|String quartets, orchestra pieces, solo piano, songs, improv frameworks]].
  * DJing - [[http://www.tide-pool.ca/music/dj|House, techno, post-dubstep, post-everything]].

===== Publications =====

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