Associate Professor
School of Music
College of Design
Georgia Institute of Technology
840 McMillan St NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Office: Couch 209G
Email:jeff.albert@gatech.edu
Mobile & Text: (404) 480-2633
IMPACT Lab at Georgia Tech
My ORCID
(probably pretty current) CV
Music Performance website: jeffalbert.com
MUSI 2012 - Fundamentals of Musicianship III
MW 12:30-1:45pm in WV 277
Office Hours - Couch 209G
W 10am-noon and by appointment.
My current creative and research practice is focused on creating structures for improvised musical performance through variable form pieces. Recent work has explored formal control by members of the ensemble, computer processes, and interaction between the performer(s) and the computer. These works allow for closer examination of the social hierarchies created in improvised musical settings. I am currently working on interactive musical computer agents and my plans include exploration of the relationships between performers and processes in the presence of an interactive computer agent.
Albert, J. "J.B. Remembers J.B. : A System for Dynamic Improvisation Accompaniment". Proceedings of the 49th International Computer Music Conference – ICMC 2024 – Seoul. pdf
THOMPSON, WILLIAM A., and JEFFREY ALBERT. “Baghdad Music Journal: A Soldier’s Move toward Technology in Music.” Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 25, 2015, pp. 68–72. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00938 pdf hosted here
Albert, Jeffrey. “Interactive Musical Partner: A Modular Human/Computer Duo Improvisation System.” Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, Marseille, France. October 17, 2013. paper pdf poster pdf
Albert, J. “Interactive Musical Partner: A Demonstration of Musical Personality Settings for Influencing the Behavior of an Interactive Musical Generation System”. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, vol. 9, no. 5, June 2021, pp. 2-4, doi:10.1609/aiide.v9i5.12641.
Albert, Jeffrey Vernon, "Interactive Musical Partner: A System for Human/Computer Duo Improvisations" (2013). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 3582. https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3582
Albert, J. "Improvisation as Tool and Intention: Organizational Practices in Laptop Orchestras and Their Effect on Personal Musical Approaches". Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012. https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v8i1.1558
Anthropofactual for Trombone and Computer was commissioned by Matthew Wright. It deals with the presence or absence of facts, and how one might question reality.The video is from my performance of the piece at ESS in Chicago.
Link to github of performance software for Anthropofactual.
"Contemplation..." is a composition for "Songs of Home Songs of Change" which is a sound art installation consisting of a sonified map of New Orleans, brass instruments , and field recordings by New Orleans high school students.
Composition, keyboards, and brass by Jeffrey Albert Brass by Hannah Benson-Kreiger and Jebney Lewis
Songs of Home Songs of Change by Jebney Lewis, Rick Snow, and Chris Staudinger Video by Brent Joseph
Program Notes for “Contemplation on A City That You Love So Much”
When I was invited to compose for “Songs of Home Songs of Change,” I had a chance to see it in installation mode. Even though the piece is about the ideas of home and change, seeing the map of New Orleans in this form and thinking about change immediately brought my mind to New Orleans since August 2005. Painful destruction can lead to positive change, and I tend to be an optimist, so this piece trends towards optimism. These sounds are meant to provide a sonic basis for contemplation, not necessarily to guide the listener to a particular conclusion or thought. Allow these sounds to encourage your contemplation of a place you love.
“Concrete Uncertainties” is a piece for improvisers in which the video is both part of the artistic presentation and the score for the performers. Kim Alpert is the collaborating video artist.
Performance by Versipel Collective from Southern Sonic 2018 at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
MOXSonic is a great annual experimental music conference held at the University of Central Missouri. On of the many great features of this gathering is a session made up of 5 minute video presentations. Each presenter makes a video that is no longer than 5 minutes. The participants gather and watch the videos, then have Q&A with the presenter after the video viewing.