Side by Side, Not One: Plurimodelling and Indigenous Sound Practices in Jayapura
Computer Music Journal, MIT Press · in press
Research
Grouped by category, most recent first within each. Supervised student research is kept in its own section — first authorship belongs to the student in every case; my role is supervisor and co-author.
Journal Articles
4 entries2026
2026
Intermediality Beyond Synchronisation
Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press · accepted
2025
Soundscapes of Papua: Cultural-based Pedagogical Approach through Electroacoustic Music
Organised Sound 30(1):32–40, Cambridge University Press · with Stevie J. Sutanto and R. I. Nanlohy · peer-reviewed
2023
Algorave Music Practice in Indonesia: Paguyuban Algorave
Organised Sound 28(2):185–194, Cambridge University Press · with Stevie J. Sutanto · peer-reviewed
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
6 entries — solo-authored or with named artistic/technical collaborators, not supervised students2026
Jakarta Witness
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 · accepted · peer-reviewed
2026
Peripersonal Modular Interfaces
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) · peer-reviewed
2022
Handmate: An Accessible Browser-based Controller for Web Audio and MIDI using AI Hand-Tracking
NIME 2022 · with Melody Lim and Nefeli Kotsani · peer-reviewed · most-cited work — 11 citations on Google Scholar, 44 on Dimensions
2022
Interactive Audiovisual Design in 3D Virtual Space Through the Adaptation of Sabetan Technique of Indonesian Wayang Kulit
NIME 2022 Doctoral Consortium
2021
MusicXR@ICMC2020/21
International Computer Music Conference 2021, published in Array, 20–22
2019
"Trapped": An Interactive Gamified Audiovisual Installation
1st International Conference on Intermedia Arts and Creative Technology, 56–61 · INSTICC · peer-reviewed
Books & Chapters
3 entries2025
Artist's Statement — The SuperCollider Book, 2nd edition
MIT Press · chapter 5, section 24, 639–656 · eds. S. Wilson and D. Cottle
2021
Future Guidelines on Noise: A Manifesto
In Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines · Sound Environment Centre, Lund University · with Thulan Nguyen, Phyllis Toh Chze Woon and Sanne Krogh Groth
2021
Understanding Noise: A Composer's Reflection
In Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines, 85–88 · Sound Environment Centre, Lund University
Creative Works — Exhibitions & Performances
35 entries · full descriptions on Works for the eleven currently featured2026
GUILTY
Opening night, ARTJOG 2026 "Ars Longa: Generatio" · Jogja National Museum, 19 June · with Monica Lim, Morgan May and the Serenata Choir of ISI Yogyakarta, 30 performers · supported by Project Eleven Australia and Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation
2026
Cici Celine
Immersive web performance on the audience's own phones · Jakarta International Performing Arts Festival · with Yola Yulfianti
2026
Jakarta Witness
ICAD 16 "Being: Becoming" · Jakarta
2026
Spectral Chaos
RSU International Symposium of Electroacoustic Music · Rangsit University Conservatory of Music, Thailand, 18 February · programmed alongside Jens Hedman and Scott Wilson
2025
Hutan Plastik
Listening Room, Ars Electronica, Linz · BEAST FEaST, University of Birmingham, 1–3 May · Ignite the Arts Festival, Penticton, Canada, 27 March
2024
Ciung Wanara
NIME 2024 Concert, Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht
2024
Hutan Plastik
"Immersive Sonic Journeys: A Creative Lab" · Melbourne Recital Centre × RMIT University, 10–13 December
2024
Parakletos
SOUND/IMAGE Festival, University of Greenwich, London, 8–10 November
2023
Ciung Wanara
"Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures" Conference · Department of Music, Harvard University, 11–13 May
2023
Ciung Wanara
Demonstration, IRCAM Forum Workshops, Paris · published as "Gestural-Based Sound Spatialization & Synthesis Strategies in 3D Virtual Environment in Interactive Audiovisual Composition," IRCAM Forum
2023
Queers of Java
Sound and visual design, with Suratno and Monica Lim · choreography and concept by Rianto and Monica Lim · dramaturgy by Carol Brown · Sydney Dance Company Wharf Studios, 4–5 March · Sydney WorldPride 2023, with Project Eleven
2022
Spectral Chaos
Sonic Saturday, Ars Electronica, Linz
2022
Antithesis
International Computer Music Conference, University of Limerick · New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
2022
Lockdown (binaural)
Opening track on Sounds of Absence · Gruenrekorder, Germany (Gruen 209) · released alongside Alvin Curran, KMRU, Haco, Cecilia Arditto and Viola Yip
2022
Bacöt
With Random Brothers · Islandwide Coverage (AWKNDAFFR) · "Natasha," Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore Art Museum, Tanjong Pagar Distripark
2021
Post-Digital Room
Generative 3D visualization · exhibition, Bina Nusantara University (BINUS), Jakarta
2021
Parallax Dog
Video mapping work · video mapping programme, SUMONAR Festival, Yogyakarta
2021
Dystopia Trilogy [WebVR]
International Computer Music Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago · ICAD XI "PUBLIK," Jakarta, with Institut Français d'Indonésie / Culture VR · Piksel Festival, Bergen
2021
Continuum
Pidato Kebudayaan DKJ 2021 · Jakarta Arts Council
2021
Covid-19 Attack
BEAST FEaST, University of Birmingham
2020–21
Melbourne Soreng
Virtual world for a cross-continental dance collaboration · with Linda Sastradipradja, Sutanto Mendut and Danny Butt · Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) & ISI Yogyakarta, for Festival Lima Gunung
2020
The Return
Track 6, Anthology of Contemporary Music from Indonesia · Unexplained Sounds Group, Italy · curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella · alongside Senyawa, Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara
2019
Trapped
Gamified audiovisual installation · Linux Audio Conference, Stanford CCRMA · ARTJOG 2019, Jogja National Museum · environment design by Bayu Dirgantoro
2019
MEMBRANES
Group sound performance, with Elisabeth Schimana, Ikbal Lubys and Random Brothers · ARTJOG 2019, Jogja National Museum, 21 August
2019
Silent Earthquake
Generative audiovisual work, with Random Brothers — music/modular by Random Brothers, generative visuals by Hartono
2017
Angkot Is the Melting Pot
Audiovisual programmer · closing performance, Helatari Salihara 2017 · choreography by Yola Yulfianti · live video streamed from a street performance at Pasar Minggu into the Salihara gallery with real-time audiovisual processing · featured in The Jakarta Post and Detik Hot
2017
Matrix Studies
Audience Award, International Computer Music Association · ICMC 2017 / 6th Electroacoustic Music Week, Shanghai Conservatory of Music · screened internationally, including AudioRocketFes, Osaka University of Arts
2016
90 Seconds of Chaos
Fixed media, SuperCollider Gendy synthesis · Sound Gallery, 2016 Joint WOCMAT–IRCAM Forum Conference, Kainan University, Taiwan
2016
Noise to Signal
Selected, Pekan Komponis Indonesia · Teater Kecil, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Dewan Kesenian Jakarta
2016
Spatial Glitsch
With Suhyun Park, as "Noise Team" · 4DSOUND Spatial Sound Hacklab, GLOBALE festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, 5–7 February
2015
Benjolin
Eight-channel installation, built around a self-designed chaotic synth circuit · Soundislands, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2015
Frankfurt Soundwalk
Field-recording album in three movements
2012–14
Kecapi
Electroacoustic series in three movements, recomposed as a complete version · WOCMAT, Taiwan, 2012–13 · Kubus Concert, Linux Audio Conference 2014, ZKM_Cube, Karlsruhe
2012
Bali Soundscape
Field-recording album in four movements · "Welcome to Desa Kutri" reissued on RE-COR, Earwitness, Spain, 2017
2011
Anti Music
Track 79, Pekak! Indonesian Noise 1995–2015 · Syrphe, Germany
Supervised Student Research
8 entries · MA researchers I supervised — I developed the research question and technical infrastructure; each output is the student's own creative work, published with them as first author2026
Gorgon Loop: An Interactive Art Installation Revealing Algorithmic Judgment through Machine Vision and Generative Language
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 9(3):1–11 · ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Papers · peer-reviewed
First author: Shuang Li (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor, not the creative author of the installation.
2026
sent(i)ence: A Performance-Game on Tarot-Steered Language Models and the Ambiguous First Person
Ars Electronica Expanded Conference · accepted · peer-reviewed
First author: Marcus Round (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
2026
Linea Viva: A Single-Line Live Score for Embodied Drawing-and-Sound Performance
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 1708–1712 · peer-reviewed
First author: Federica Ciotti (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
2026
Onycho Lab: Designing Wearable Fingertip Prostheses for Feminist Hapticism to Reframe Artificial Nails as Bodily Technology
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 1350–1356 · peer-reviewed
First authors: Kaiyi Zhang and Rebecca Hall (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor, not the creative author of the work.
2025
Mycortex: Exploring Non-Human Symbolic Communication through Art and Bioelectric Signals
ARTECH 2025, 12th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts · ACM Digital Library · peer-reviewed
First author: Wang Zhiqi (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
2025
Sonic Maze: Pressure-Sensitive Drawing as an Affective Sonic Practice
17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, 372–379, London · peer-reviewed
First author: Federica Ciotti (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
2025
A Practice-Based Methodology for Capturing Embodied Gesture–Rhythm Relations in Small Datasets
AI Music Creativity Conference, Brussels · peer-reviewed
First author: Evan O'Donnell (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
2025
Harmonix Series: Accessible Digital Musical Instruments for Mindfulness and Creativity
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression · peer-reviewed
First author: Chan Wing Hei (supervised) — I am co-author and supervisor.
Awards & Honours
11 entries2026
Gold Award — Jakarta Witness
4th International iNVENTX Creative Exhibition · Multimedia University, Malaysia
2025
Nominee, Best Contemporary Production — Hutan Plastik
28th Anugerah Musik Indonesia Awards · inaugural year of the category · 5,277 works registered across the awards
2025
Best Artistic Research Paper
Southeast Asia–China Cultural Studies Center · Institut Kesenian Jakarta
2024
Conservatorium Director's Award for Exceptional Doctoral Research
University of Melbourne
2023
Nominee, Best Experimental or Avant-Garde Work
Music Victoria Awards, Melbourne
2023
Grainger Student Composer in Residence
Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne · proposed a VR musical instrument inspired by the museum's Staff Bells, combining pre-recorded bell samples with physical-modelling synthesis and binaural/ambisonic spatialisation
2021
Prix CIME residency — Parakletos
International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music
2019
First Prize, WOCMAT International Electroacoustic Music Young Composer Award
World Conference on Music and Technology
2017
Audience Award, International Computer Music Association — Matrix Studies
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
2016
Postgraduate Excellence Scholarship
Goldsmiths, University of London
2016
Selected Young Composer, Pekan Komponis Indonesia
Dewan Kesenian Jakarta
Grants
1 entry2026
Project Member — Circulation: Cupping, Colour, and Collective Body Sensing
School Seed Funding 2026, RMIT University Vietnam · 90,000,000 VND · June–November 2026 · project lead Bin Youn
Academic Appointments
4 entries2025
Lecturer in Digital Media (Interaction)
School of Communication & Design, RMIT University Vietnam · October 2025 – present
2024
Lecturer in Computational Arts
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London · January 2024 – September 2025
2023
Adjunct Lecturer in Music Technology
University of New England, Armidale, Australia · April – December 2023
2022
Technical Research Assistant
University of Applied Arts Vienna · April – December 2022 · VR development for the Trans-local Performative Academy, initiated by theatercombinat
Service & Leadership
5 entries2026
Co-Chair, ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2026
National University of Singapore
2026
Demo and Poster Chair, NIME 2026
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
2026
Host and Organiser, ACM SIGGRAPH SPARK
RMIT University Vietnam, January 2026 · first ACM SIGGRAPH programme hosted on the campus
2025
Social Chair, NIME 2025
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Canberra
2022
Board Member, International Computer Music Association
2022 – present
Invited Talks
8 entries2026
Panellist — Positioning Bangkok as a Southeast Asian Hub for Creative Tech
TouchDesigner Bangkok Meetup Vol. 2, Goethe-Institut Thailand, 1 August
2026
Keynote — 8th International Conference on Art, Design, Education and Cultural Studies
Universitas Negeri Malang, 6 August
2026
Panellist, SIGGRAPH EDU SOIREE 2026
ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, 30 January · presented TD-EDUPack, a pedagogical method for node-based programming environments
2026
Invited speaker — Asia Pacific Art Forum 2026 Symposium, "Artistic Intelligence"
ISI Yogyakarta with Project Eleven, 23 June · supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, Dana Indonesiana and LPDP
2025
Guest — FluCoMa Podcast #24
Hosted by Jacob Hart · discussing Parakletos, Ciung Wanara, Kyma, object-based audio and noise as compositional material
2025
TouchDesigner Roundtable, London
11 April · presented research using motion capture of Rianto's Lengger dance to drive real-time generative visuals
2025
"Is AI Art Legit? Learning, Navigating, and Transcending Machine Creativity"
23rd Indonesian Scholars International Convention (ISIC), PPI UK, Imperial College London, 5–6 July · with Ken Syakira Wangsaatmadja
2024
Research presentation — Ciung Wanara: Interactive Gestural Audiovisual Composition
AI Music Creativity Conference (AIMC) 2024, University of Oxford, 9–11 September
Earlier presentations
International Computer Music Conference 2014, 2016, 2017 · ZKM Karlsruhe 2014, 2015, 2019 · IRCAM Paris 2014 · NYCEMF 2014 · Asian Composers League, Yokohama 2014 · Sonorities Festival, Belfast 2015 · Gaudeamus, Utrecht 2015 · Soundislands, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2015 · WOCMAT, Taiwan 2012, 2013, 2019 · Sound Bridge Festival, Kuala Lumpur 2013, 2020 · Australasian Computer Music Conference 2020, 2021 · Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival 2007, 2008, 2010