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CSMA 2023 Series: Music with Raul Feliz & Martin Rivera

The Design Computation and Applied Computer Science – Media Arts programs lecture series is a sequence of talks live on YouTube by a variety of creative professionals. The talk centers on how tech is redefining creative industries. The first talk in this series took place on September 6, 2023 and was around the theme of music with Raul Feliz, a video game composer delving into music’s complexity, and Martin Rivera, a creative engineer in the world of immersive audio.

Raul Feliz is a video game composer and sound designer at Dynamic Media Triad. Outside of video games his work explores probability and complex adaptive systems within the context of Music.

Martin Rivera is a Creative engineer who specializes in audio systems. He is trained as an audio engineer, a musician and is a self taught software developer. Currently Martin Rivera is working in immersive media.

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Professor Anthony Fontenot Co-authors Space Prize Competition for Inclusion in 2021 Venice Biennale
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Red Flag Warning/Bond Fire Update | December 3, 2020
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