DR COBI VAN TONDER - CV
Professional experience
01/10/2022: Research Fellow at Department of Architecture - University of Bologna.
01/09 / 2020-30 / 08/2022: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Theater,
Film, Television and Interactive Media, University of York.
01/01/2003-Present: Independent Artist / Composer
01/11 / 2010-30 / 09/2011: Head of Digital Film Department, SAE Institute, Cape Town, South
Africa.
Education
01/11 / 2011-23 / 06/2017: PhD Digital Arts and Humanities, in the Department of Film, Drama and
Music, Trinity College, Ireland. 6 months exchange student in Spatial Audio
at the Sonic Lab, Queens University, UK.
20/08 / 2007-14 / 06/2009: MFA Art Practice, Stanford University, USA with focus on Networked Audio and
Spatial Audio practice-led research.
14/02 / 2003-21 / 06/2005: BHons in Music, (1st class honors) University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prizes and Awards (selected)
30/06/2022: YIAF AHRC Grant, University of York, £ 6,600, to curate and create a sound
art series album, Echoes and Reflections that draws upon the acoustics of 9
selected heritage sites, together with nine diverse international sound artists.
22/12/2021: YIAF AHRC Grant, University of York, £ 2,000, to create the piece Echoes of
our Ancestors.
30/03/2020: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, European Union
Horizon 2020 research and innovation grant of € 190,133.76.
16/08/2018: SEA (S) GRANTS 2018, Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture,
Kefalonia, Greece, € 2,000 to work at Melisani Cave and other
heritage sites in Kefalonia.
15/09 / 2011-05 / 12/2015: Scholarship awardee for PhD Digital Arts and Humanities, Trinity
College, Ireland.
14/09/2008: P. Arty, Electronic Art Grant, Seoul, Korea for Skatesonic.
01/09 / 2007-30 / 06/2009: Scholarship awardee for MFA Arts Stanford, California.
10/08/2007: Music OMI International Musicians Residency, Hudson, NY.
01/07 / 2005-31 / 10/2005
& 01/06 / 2006-28 / 08/2006: ZERO ONE / IDEO artist-in-residence, Villa Montalvo.
Collaboration with IDEO, Palo Alto.
01/11/2005 - 31/05/2006
& 29/08 / 2006-30 / 03/2007: 1-year fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany.
Published:
09/09/2021: C. van Tonder and M. Lopez, "Acoustic Atlas - Auralisation in the Browser", 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109 /I3DA48870.2021.9610909.
09/09/2021: A. McArthur, C. van Tonder, L. Gaston-Bird and A. Knight-Hill, "A survey of 3D audio through the browser: practitioner perspectives", 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA), 2021, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109 / I3DA48870.2021.9610839.
10/02/2017: Commentary on the Portfolio of Compositions - PhD Doctorate Thesis,
Trinity College.
17/04/2009: Memory Scene, MFA Thesis, Art and Art History Department of Stanford.
15/01/2004: Music Composition and Performance in Interactive Computer / Human Systems, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg.
PRACTICE LED RESEARCH Selected Compositions and Interventions
30/04/2022: Echoes of Our Ancestors - Trilogy. Auralising infrasound-expanded bass-drum, bell plates, ghongs and cymbals into Dowkerbottom Cave . Performed by Robyn Schulkowsky, Berlin.
05/06/2020: Cerberu, cruel and different fair, Eight Tower Records, Italy.
20/02/2020: Mutation2, Alternate African Reality, Syrphe Records, Germany.
27/10/2019: Music for Trees , Through a Forest Wilderness - Actions in the Forest.
Performance, Conceptual Art, Events, 1960 - ∞, Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven.
16/05/2019: Cave Music , real-time auralisation for voice and the acoustics of Spro Caves in Nesodden. Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
06/10/2018
& 28/10/2018: Music for Trees , Through a Forest Wilderness - Actions in the Forest.
Performance, Conceptual Art, Events, 1960 - ∞, Nikolskoer Landpartie, Berlin.
6/22/2018: Goodbye Anthill , machine learned voices, data-mined voices, synthesized voices & extended voice trio, Blind Signal, Hosted by the Jugend [widerstands] museum Galiläakirche, Berlin.
08/03/2018
& 09/03/2018: Esponja , composition and audio-physical surround sound design, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin.
03/12/2017: Telepathic Resistance , show only, Noisebridge, Berlin.
01/07/2016: When all memory is gone - microtonal electronic music, 12 ', Arts and Technology Research Lab, TCD, Dublin.
20/03/2016: Gala for 8 musicians, 5 ', Sunday Salon, Boomki, Berlin.
15/10/2015: Fata Morgana for Female Choir, Percussion and Computer, 30 ', Arts and Technology Research Lab, TCD, Dublin.
15/10/2015: Haute Rorschach , microtonal electronic, 8'30 ”, Arts and Technology Research Lab, TCD, Dublin.
09/08/2015: Mutation 13 ', concert with Juliana Venter, Miss Hecker, Berlin.
14/12/2014: Drift for 12 musicians, 12 ', Sunday Salon, Boomki, Berlin.
14/11/2014: Sn.w 10'53 - SYNTHESIS VOL.1 by International Female Composers, Urban Arts Berlin.
25/01/2013: Relativity for Voice and Tape , 8 ', with vocalist Michelle O'Rourke,
Printing House, TCD, Dublin.
28/04/2013: String Quartet No 1, 18 '- Premiere Arts and Technology Research Lab theater, Dublin.
30/05/2012: EXPLODE / IMPLODE, 20 '- 42 channel Spatial Audio, SARC, Queens University for the Sonic Lab performance space, Belfast.
27/03/2010: Music for Redwood Trees , with Suzanne Huskey and six performers, Montgomery Woods State Reserve, Ukia, California.
17/07/2010: Tristan Time Space Continuum - for Trumpet, Trombone & Cello - Der Sommer in Stuttgart - mit Musik der Jahrhunderte, Germany.
13/03/2009: Delay , Soundwire Ensemble network enabled performance. Lead by Chris Chafe with participating ensembles at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Princeton, UCSD, UCSC, Stanford.
16/11/2008: Improvisation with Pauline Oliveros, Soundwire Ensemble network enabled performance. Lead by Chris Chafe with participating ensembles at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Princeton, UCSD, UCSC, Stanford.
20/08/2007: Blow, Music OMI International Musicians Residency CONCERT, New York City.
22/06/2007: Memory and Distance for Solo Cello, commissioned by Gavriel Lipkind as part of the Solitude Cycle - Journey to the Limits, Germany.
29/03/2007: SNOW , Audio CD release, Merz / Solitude, Germany, in the Reihe Projektiv series.
01/07/2007: Golden Summer Mistake for Soprano and Harpsichord. Soprano Angelika Luz and pianist / harpsichordist Florian Holscher. Kein Liederabend, Concert / Der Sommer in Stuttgart 07. A festival for contemporary music hosted by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Music of the Centuries, Staatsoper Stuttgart and SWR Stuttgart.
23/07/2006: Coexistenz for 9-piece ensemble, performed by Ensemble Listen.
Stuttgart, ISCM World New Music Festival 2006 Grenzenlos during the Festival Sommer in Stuttgart.
Selected Intermedia and Installations
4-6 / 12/2019: Acoustic Atlas Premiere, WAC2019 Web Audio Conference, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
17/02/2019: 4 Waters - Deep Implicancy , film music in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman, for Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neumann, 40min film loop, Silent Green, Betonhalle, Berlin.
06 / 08-20 / 09/2018: Ionion Mirror , video Installation, SEAS Art Festival, Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia, Greece.
09/06/2018: Ionion Mirror , Music and Video, with Anna Stereopoulou, Beton7 Arts Center, Greece.
17/05/2018: Surround sound installation of Liquid Violet - for Arjuna Neuman, Bold Tendencies, London.
26/07/2016: Film music and sound design for Serpent Rain - Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Bergen, Norway.
13/09/2013: 7Rooms , String Quartet with spatial audio processing, Commissioned by Prima String Quartet, Derry Culture Tech Festival, Derry.
26/03/2011: Lullaby for Infrasound Bed (40min loop) - Toffee Festival, City Hall Cape Town, South Africa.
05/06/2010: Static Blackout , 16.8 channel sound sculpture - with Max / MSP and Nord Modular Synth. The Compound, San Francisco, USA.
29/05/2010: Streams , 16.8 channel sound sculpture - Max / MSP and Cymascope (a sound healing device). The Compound, San Francisco.
08/05/2010: Looping I , recursive projections with light, glass and live video. An
installation using Max / MSP / Jitter, 2 live cameras and 3 projectors, The Compound, San Francisco.
12 / 05-14 / 06/2009: Wunderflater , Sculpture / Architecture / Installation / Networked live audio- feed. Supercollider mixer in combination with a Linux Network Audio protocol called Jacktrip to link up seven remote spaces acoustically.
Tomas Walton Gallery, Stanford. MFA group collaborative show with Michael Arcega, Reed Anderson, Kazumi Shiho and Jina Valentine and with support from CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) who developed Jacktrip.
12/02/2009: Vuurvangerkindmens , HD Video and 16-channel sound diffusion, CCRMA Stage, Stanford, Palo Alto, USA.
28/05/2009: Noexi (s) t , HD Video and 8-channel sound diffusion, CCRMA stage, Stanford.
28/05/2008: Live underwater-generated sound performance for Red Rover dance event. Department of Drama and the Dance Division Co-sponsored by SICA and Stanford Lively Arts.
14 / 09-16 / 09/2008: Skatesonic , interactive skateboard and music project for P.Art.y - People, Art & Technology, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of York, TFTI
2022 The Science of Sound & Cinematography - Sound.
2021 Digital Production and Postproduction Workflows TFT00052M - Sound.
Guest Lectures for Advanced Audio, Masters students. Guest Lectures for Spatial Audio, Masters students.
Leading an internship for a Digital Archeology PhD Masters Student.
Hasso Plattner Institut - Courses IT Systems Engineering MA, Postdam
2022 Guest lectures in Interactive Sound and Sonic Archeology (Online).
Trinity College Dublin, ATRL
27-28 / 10/2012 & 26-27 / 01/13: Master classes in Sound Design
SAE Institute Cape Town
01/11 / 2010-01 / 10/2011: Film Studies, Sound Design and Sound Production, Composition,
Digital Film Production, Visual Storytelling, Creative Projects.
01/11 / 2010-30 / 09/2011: Supervised and mentored group of 14 first year SAE Film Students on their individual creative work.
Stanford University, Palo Alto
20/08 / 2007-20 / 03/2009:
As Lecturer:
ARTSTUDI 18. Video Art.
As Teaching Assistant (TA):
ARTSTUDI 151. Sculpture with Terry Berlier.
ARTSTUDI 179A. Digital Art II Digital Art with Joe McKay. ARTSTUDI 178. Electronic Art I with Gail Wight ARTSTUDI 138. Sound and Image with Paul De Marinis.
ARTSTUDI 177. Video Art I with Amy Hicks
ARTSTUDI 145. Painting I with Kevin Bean ARTSTUDI 151. Sculpture with Terry Berlier.
ARTSTUDI 175A. Light as a Sculptural Element with Elaine Buckholtz. ARTSTUDI 131. Sound Art with Paul DeMarinis.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
02 / 04-31 / 05/2007: Computer-aided Music Composition
Vega - The Brand Communications School, Johannesburg, South Africa
06 / 01-30 / 11/2005: Sound Design
Selected, invited talks and presentations to internationally established conferences and / or international advanced schools.
20/05/2022: Invited talk: Acoustic Atlas - Cultivating the Capacity to Listen, 'Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime' conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto.
12/05/2021: Selected talk and artwork: Acoustic Atlas as Virtual Installation at klingt gut! 5th International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences - Immersive Audio Lab.
26/03/2021: Invited Panelist for Soundstack: Spatial Sound in the Browser.
07/06/2018: Digital Alchemy, Visual Music collaboration with Maura McDonnell, presentation at klingt gut! symposium on sound, 2018, The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, 7th - 9th June 2018.
10/11/2017: Digital Alchemy, Visual Music collaboration with Maura McDonnell, presentation at University of Greenwich, London, UK, 10-12 November 2017.
23/03/2018: Digital Alchemy, Visual Music collaboration with Maura McDonnell, presentation at Seeing Sound, Practice-Led Visual Music Symposium, Bath Spa University, UK.
