Ken Paoli, Professor of Music at College of DuPage, studied composition with Phil Winsor at DePaul University and. M. William Karlins at Northwestern University. Ken is involved in archiving and researching the works of American composer Phil Winsor. His paper on Winsor’s MAX/MSP instrument, MYST was presented in August 2018 at the International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, South Korea. His paper on “Winsor’s Poetics of Music” was presented at ICMC 2021 in Santiago, Chile. Ken’s paper “Phil Winsor: An Exemplar of the Artist as Technologist” was presented at ICMC 2024. Ken’s research interests include algorithmic composition and his paper titled “Macrostructure and Transition in an Algorithmic Composition Environment” was published in the proceedings of the ICMC in 2017 and his paper titled “Hindemith and Algorithmic Harmonic Generation” was published by the ICMC in 2019. His latest research paper “A Hypermetric Approach to Rhythmic Organization in Computer Assisted Algorithmic Composition” was published in the proceedings of WOCMAT 2023. His String Quartet #3 was performed in a streaming concert by the Lehner String Quartet through the auspices of Virtual Concert Halls and Vox Novus. Ken’s intermedia work, Triptych was premiered at ICMC 2023 in Shenzhen, China. Ken’s latest work, Three Vignettes for Er-hu Improvisation and Interpretive Dancer. was performed at WOCMAT 2024 where he also delivered a keynote address.

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