about
Jeremy Hunt is a PhD candidate in music and new media studying
at the University of California, Berkeley where he is specializing
in the composition of new digital instruments and digitally expanded
performance spaces. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New
Media (BCNM) and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).
His music is informed by a broad base of art and technology and is drawn from his interests
which are eclectic and wide ranging, including: musical design,
simplicity, interactive systems, baroque organology, the theory of
musical media, free culture & free software, machine learning and
artificial intelligence, psychoacoustics, media activism,
improvisation, the human voice, tuning theory and temperaments,
and electro-acoustic luthiery.
Hunt holds degrees in composition from UC Berkeley (MA, 2005)
and San Francisco State University (BM, cum laude, 2002). His composition
teachers have included Edmund Campion, Jorge Liderman, Cindy Cox,
Josh Levine, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Ron Caltabiano. He has
also studied psychoacoustics and computer music with David Wessel,
improvisation with Myra Melford, and classical voice with David Gordon.
Hunt is also a dedicated pedagogue and has taught music theory,
musicianship, and sight singing to students of all ages and led
choruses in many different venues such as the Peninsula Girls Chorus,
The Woodside School, The Nueva School, UC Berkeley, and the Jazzschool.