After earning his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Paul Geluso completed a Masters of Music in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt’s acclaimed graduate program. Later and as the chief audio engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for more than 10 years, he was immersed into the audio art scene, working with a vast array of musicians, composers and experimental media artists who use sound in their creative work.
Creativity + Technology = Enterprise
Awarded Artists:
Mari Kimura
Mari Kimura, hailed by The New York Times as a “virtuoso playing at the edge,” is a visionary violinist, composer, and educator renowned for merging technology with music. She pioneered “subharmonics,” a groundbreaking bowing technique that extends the violin’s range below its lowest string. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received the Fromm Commission, a residency at IRCAM, and was honored by the Carnegie Corporation as an ‘Immigrant: Pride of America,’ she is only the second Japanese national to receive this recognition, following Yoko Ono. In 2020, Kimura launched MUGIC®, a wireless motion sensor revolutionizing artistic expression, now used at leading institutions such as Harvard, UC Berkeley, Juilliard, and professional venues such as the Osaka Expo 2025, the Lincoln Center, and the Venice Biennale. Her innovation and entrepreneurial efforts earned her a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives. A professor at UC Irvine and longtime Juilliard faculty member, she continues to push musical boundaries through composition and improvisation. In 2025, she was honored with the SEAMUS Award for lifetime achievement in electroacoustic music.
Matthew Ostrowski
A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski is a composer, performer, and installation artist working primarily with electronics and sound. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, and the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He has shared the stage with everyone from John Zorn and David Behrman to a trio of Elvis impersonators. He has been the technical advisor for the Macarthur fellowship-winning choreographer Elizabeth Streb and presently develops custom software for musicians and installations.
He has performed from Australia to California, including the Melbourne Festival, the Audio Art festival in Krakow, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, New Music America, the Festival Musiques Innovatrices in France, Stroom in Switzerland, PS 1, Wien Modern, and many other venues worldwide. Ostrowski has received fellowships from STEIM in Amsterdam, the Media Alliance in New York, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and many others.
Juraj Kojs
Juraj Kojs will create A-touch De-touch, an experimental interdisciplinary work that develops the metaphor of prosthesis as a vehicle for expressing our attachment to and detachment from the world. Eight performers (4 Spider and 4 Ant characters) will build an ecosystem that engages audience members in tactile interactions through analog and digital body extensions such as kitchen utensils, tennis rackets, violin bows, wireless cameras, Wii game controllers, iPads and iPhones. The project will be premiered in a black box theater in Miami in the spring 2012. Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist, producer, researcher and educator living in the US. He is the director of Foundation for Music Technologies (FETA) in Miami, FL.
Haeyoung Kim
Haeyoung Kim will develop Moori, an interactive audience participatory audio-visual performance. Researching new ways of collaboration and communication between performer and audience, the artist will incorporate multiple modes of messaging on a mobile phone where users tell their stories to guided questions by the performer. User data is collected and processed to generate algorithmic audio and visuals while creating a larger narrative. This collaboration creates dialog and suggests new possibilities that can exist through the combination of algorithmic animation, audio and language. With a background in classical piano, Haeyoung Kim explores the texture of sounds in electronic music. Currently, under the name bubblyfish, she creates 8-bit and experimental sound works.
Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson is a multimedia artist including sculpture, video, music and performance. He is living and working in New York. Thompson will use his fellowship to realize a series of systematically evolving sculptural and sound pieces using Max/MSP and Jitter. Utilizing natural sounds derived from the growth of plants, the position of butterflies in an aviary and chirping crickets, he will digitally process the sound into data and re-feed the sound back into the space creating and ever evolving loop. Thompson has received his MFA at Rutgers University and has completed the Harvestworks Max/MSP Certification Program. He has collections in US and Ireland and has lectured in Dallas. His work has received a VanDerlip Travel award and has received several artist-in-residencies. He has performed and exhibited his work in Italy, US, Argentina, Poland and Palestine.
Pauline Oliveros
“Radio Piece”
A combination of text, sounds, and instruments in a 20-minute work for national radio distribution.