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David Jensenius
david@jensenius.com

Performances / Exhibitions

• 2020 — Untitled. NUMUS 2020 season, premiered by Kathryn Ladano. Waterloo ON.
• 2016 — Telephone Booth. CAFKA.16: What We Do Together That We Can’t Do Alone. Kitchener ON.
• 2015 — FoundSounds Saskatoon. Sounds Like Audio Art Festival, aka Artist-Run. Saskatoon SK.
• 2015 — HATFinder. Mobile augmented reality sound game with Lauren Burr and Mark Prier. Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media and the Digital Humanities. UCLA, Los Angeles CA.
• 2015 — HATengine. A web-based tool for designing and building augmented reality sound games, sound walks, or locative sound installations.
• 2015 — Pitzer Multi-Species Commons with SPURSE. Pitzer College, Los Angeles CA.
• 2014 — Sound design in collaboration with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli. In Search of Abandoned v2. QUAD, Derby UK.
• 2014 — FoundSounds. Mobile app for finding and sharing sounds.
• 2014 — The Elora Piano. Solo exhibition, Elora Centre for the Arts. Elora ON.
• 2014 — Sound design in collaboration with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli. In Search of Abandoned. CAFKA.14: It Should Always Be This Way. Kitchener ON.
• 2014 — Sound design for Sarah Kernohan’s Study For A Dry Current. Commissioned by Toronto Animated Image Society. Toronto ON.
• 2013 — Performance of György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique. Between The Ears — Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound. Kitchener ON.
• 2012 — fragility. Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound. Cambridge ON.
• 2011 — MATR: Pilgrimage Game Variation, in collaboration with SPURSE. BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York NY.
• 2011 — MATR 1291: Mobile Apparatus for Temporality Research, in collaboration with SPURSE. Part of CAFKA.11: SURVIVE. RESIST. Kitchener ON.
• 2011 — Suggestion Machine (alpha), performed by University of Maine faculty and students. Orono ME.
• 2010 — Fish Futures, in collaboration with SPURSE. Whitney Independent Study Program exhibition “UNDERCURRENTS: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art.” New York NY.
• 2010 — Seeds of Dispersion, in collaboration with SPURSE. Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland.
• 2009 — Selected Works, tour of solo works and improvisation in Chicago IL, Portland OR, and New Haven CT.
• 2009 — Deep Time + Rapid Time, in collaboration with SPURSE. Grand Arts, Kansas City MO.
• 2008 — Four Stochastic (Virtual) Plants for Auditory and Visual Observation. Monkeytown, Brooklyn NY.
• 2008 — Crooked River in First and Third Persons, in collaboration with SPURSE. Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland OH.
• 2008 — Improvisation as Polish Club. Princeton University, Princeton NJ.
• 2008 — 7. Monkeytown, Brooklyn NY.
• 2007 — tc:sw(06-07). Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
• 2007 — Satellites Over Philadelphia. Electro-Music Festival, Philadelphia PA.
• 2007 — (D./C.)e-NTW:v.2.0. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
• 2006 — Capturing the Wumpus, performed by Flux Quartet. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.

Lectures / Workshops / Panels

• 2015 — Augmenting the Soundscape: A Tool for Aural Adventures in Urban Environments. Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media and the Digital Humanities. UCLA, Los Angeles CA.
• 2014 — What does it sound like here? Fluxible, A User Experience Event. Kitchener ON.
• 2014 — Technology as a Tool. University of Waterloo REAP. St. Jacobs ON.
• 2011 — A Geography of the Event. Society for Literature, Science and Art. Kitchener ON.
• 2011 — Notes on Accumulation. Lecture and workshop at University of Maine, Orono ME.
• 2010 — SPURSE research, in collaboration with SPURSE. 2010 CAFKA Lecture Series. Kitchener ON.
• 2009 — Deep Time Rapid Time: a way-finding workshop and discussion, in collaboration with SPURSE. Columbia University, New York NY, and The New School, New York NY.

Recorded Works

• ppppppppppppppppppppp, Polish Club, Zyt Recordings, 2012.
• 7, 440 Music, 2009.
• 440 Project, 440 Music, 2006.

Professional Experience

2008–Present — Composer / Media Artist

• Build media art pieces and sound compositions using a variety of technologies and custom-built software.
• Created FoundSounds — a worldwide social network and collaborative art project.
• Compositions and art have been displayed internationally and throughout Canada (see Performances / Exhibitions above).
• Technology used: ReactJS, NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, Swift, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Objective-C, AngularJS, SuperCollider, Processing, PHP.
• Many projects are open source at github.com/djensenius.

2015 — Curator, New Music at the Boathouse. Kitchener ON

• Curated established and emerging artists for a monthly experimental music series.
• Created and edited a podcast and YouTube series; arranged travel and accommodations as needed.

2011 — Curator, New Music at the Gallery. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener ON

• Co-curated established and emerging artists for a series of four experimental music concerts.

2008 — Guest Curator, framework radio broadcast and podcast. London, UK

• Created a one-hour radio program based on the Crooked River in First and Third Persons sound installation.

2008 — Guest Curator, Monkeytown. Brooklyn NY

• Guest-curated a program at Monkeytown.

Board Work

2018–Present — Board of Directors, President, NUMUS. Waterloo ON

• Chair board meetings and set agendas.
• Review financials; participate in fundraising campaigns and give feedback on marketing and venue selection.

2014–2018 — Board of Directors, Secretary, WCSS 556 (Arrow Lofts). Kitchener ON

• Made decisions in the best interest of the condo corporation and owners.
• Selected and worked with the property manager to keep the building operating smoothly.
• Reviewed financials and offered suggestions to improve the building.

Education

• 2005–2008 — Master of Arts, Music Composition. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
• 1997–2001 — Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Millersville University, Millersville PA.

References

Available upon request.