Ivan Zavada
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Ivan Zavada is a composer, multimedia programmer and designer who works in computer music composition and electroacoustic theory at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His research focus is on the interactive relationship between image and sound within the realm of electroacoustic music. He is currently developing a computer application to represent and generate melodic motifs in three dimensional space based on their geometric properties.
Zavada creates innovative multi-sensorial events that incorporate sophisticated audiovisual techniques to express artistic individuality in the digital era. The work InEx which premiered in Beijing at the 2006 Musicacoustica Festival, is a real-time performance for voice, computer and visual interpretation is based on a blending approach of traditional and urban connotations. Most recently his work Chronotope premiered at the Galileo Galilei Planetarium in Buenos Aires at the Understanding Visual Music Symposium 2013 and is an example of the vast creative potential available through new mediums of artistic expression. His research interests also involve real-time network music performance over international telecommunication networks. He is currently international advisor for Network Music Program at the Central Conservatorium of Music in China.
Originally from Montréal, Canada, Ivan Zavada is of Ukrainian and French-Canadian origin. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.