Dr. John Thompson

Assistant Professor
Director of Music Technology
Office Phone: (912) 478-7763

E-Mail: jthompson@georgiasouthern.edu

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., Middle Tennessee State University
B.M. Belmont University

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About Dr. Thompson:

John Thompson is a composer and media artist. He works as Assistant Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he serves as Director of the Music Technology program. He holds a PhD in music composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied music and media art with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads, Stephen Travis Pope, and Marcos Novak.

Following postdoctoral work under the National Science Foundation's IGERT interactive Digital Multimedia program, Dr. Thompson joined the faculty of Georgia Southern University where he heads the music technology program. There he has structured a series of courses that range from introductory music technology classes to graduate courses in computer music.

His works and research have been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, the New Instruments for Musical Expression conference, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, SIGGRAPH, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM Multimedia Conference, and the Music and Moving Image Conference.His recent creative work explores cross-modal techniques for combining multiple media in an interactive context. Examples can be found on his website.