Juan Pampin is Associate Professor of Music Composition at University of Washington and founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) for which he currently serves as Associate Director. He received an MA in Composition from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, France and a DMA in Composition from Stanford University, where he studied with composer Jonathan Harvey. Juan Pampinʼs works explore the territory delineated by the concepts of site, memory, and materiality through the use of algorithmic strategies to produce aural phenomena. His sound art installations consist of site-specific immersive and interactive sound environments, with locations ranging from bathrooms to urban public public spaces; many of them also make use of the Internet to connect distant places through sound, either to exchange their acoustic traits or to transform sites into terminals or extensions of the network, where sound serves as a vehicle to materialize its ubiquitousness. His compositions,
including works for instrumental, digital, and mixed media, have been performed around the world by world-class soloists and ensembles such as Susana Kasakoff, Melia Watras, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Arditti String Quartet, Sinfonia 21, Krakow Percussion Group, to cite just a few.

Sound and Space: from the Auditory to the Corporeal
The relationship between sound and space has become one of the central technical and esthetic issues in the field of electronic music composition. This particular line of inquiry has also been explored by many sound artists, using the relationship between space and sound as the esthetic core of their installations. In this talk I will present several compositions and installations produced at DXARTS which address this issue from diverse technical and artistic perspectives, with a particular emphasis in the relationship between sound, space and the body.