Andres Cabrera, PhD

Software Media Systems | Spatial Audio | Music | Software architecture


Dr. Cabrera's work in interactive distributed computing is directed towards tackling the diverse complex issues around computational workflows in scientific research and the arts.

This interdisciplinary approach, merging human-computer interaction, literate programming, and multimedia display, connects interactive data computation and Virtual Reality.



Dr. Cabrera is the CREATE (Center for Research in Electronic Arts and Technology) Research Director and adjunct faculty in the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program at UC Santa Barbara and received his PhD at Queen's University Belfast, UK under the direction of Dr. Gary Kendall, a pioneer of spatial audio digital signal processing.

In his role as CREATE Research Director he leads interactive distributed computation research and development at the Allosphere Research Facility.

The Allosphere, a unique instrument for interactive real-time scientific visualization has been used in scientific collaborations across scales from the atomic, through the nano to the biological.




Dr. Cabrera worked for more than six years as a professional sound designer and audio engineer and has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level in three countries.

His musical and multimedia work has included diverse collaborations and media with an emphasis on interactivity and user involvement. He has extensive experience in open source collaboration and community development.

He has unique experience in HDLAs (High Density Loudspeaker Arrays) through his work in the Sonic Lab in the Sonic Arts Research Centre and the Allosphere at UCSB.

With over 20 years of research experience in audio and digital signal processing, he was a long time contributor to the Csound language and developed the widely-distributed Csound development environment CsoundQt.

With Dr. Joseph Tilbian, he developed the Stride programming language aimed at simplifying development for interactive embedded and heterogenous systems.


Highlighted work

TINC

Toolkit for Interactive Computation

Allolib

Distributed Multimedia Framework

Stride

Programming Language

CsoundQt

Csound Development Environment

GoOSC

Mobile OSC interfaces

Gamelan Electronico

Computer vision, interaction and software

Nyia[Oro]


Interactive Installation

Bosque Reimplantado

Music for the landscape sculpture

Gemini Flux


Performance