Ted Apel

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Ted Apel is a sound artist whose sculptures and installations focus on the audio transducing element as the source of visual and sonic material. He has exhibited his work at sound art festivals and exhibits including the SoundCulture festival in San Francisco; the Ussachevsky Festival in Claremont, California; the Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland; the Sound Symposium in St. John’s Newfoundland; the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria; and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

He was twice a prizewinner at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his sound installations; his sound installation received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001; his sound installation won the grand prize in the 2004 Idaho Triennial; and he won the first annual FETA prize for sound art in 2013.

Ted Apel received his M.A. in electroacoustic music at Dartmouth College studying with Jon Appleton, Larry Polansky, Kathryn Alexander, and Christian Wolff. He received his Ph.D. in computer music at the University of California, San Diego studying with Miller Puckette, Shlomo Dubnov, Haim Steinbach, George Lewis, Charles Curtis, and F. Richard Moore. He has been a Lecturer in Sonic Arts and Electronic Music at The University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Games, Interactive Media, and Mobile Technology (GIMM) program at Boise State University.

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Sep 26, 2024 Negated Sound Analysis-Synthesis paper presented at the Speculative Sound Synthesis Symposium 2024 26 - 28 September 2024, Graz, Austria. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Performance of Sharing Speculative Relativity with Alberto de Campo and Bruno Gola. Speculative Sound Synthesis Symposium
Feb 03, 2024 I will be a featured artist at the 2024 Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electroacoustic Music this February 2-4, 2024. I will present the sound installation ““Trio for Organ Pipes”, a lecture, and performance with Anthony Burr. Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electroacoustic Music Apel featured at electroacoustic music festival
Jul 28, 2023 My Article “Incidental Speakers” is published in eContact! 21.2 — Dematerialization of the Sounding Object: Conceptual approaches to sound-based artistic practices (July 2023). Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Incidental Speakers.
Jun 15, 2023 The sound installation Conic Variations will be part of the Sound and Music Computing Conference at The Royal College of Music and The KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. SMC 2023 Performance with Sharing Speculative Relativity Performance
Sep 07, 2022 My contribution to Soothsayer Serenades by curator Sharmila Wood. Expand Indefinitely.
Nov 01, 2021 The Only Thing We Have to Fear, a sound installation at the Green Box, Surel’s Place, November-December 2021. The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Jun 28, 2021 Portable Real-time Volcano Infrasound Auditory Display Devices, by Ted Apel and Jeffrey Johnson. Presented at the ICAD 2021, June 28, 2021. ICAD 2021.
Mar 07, 2020 Teaching Generative Game Music Creation to Undergraduate Video Game Majors. Music Technology Pedagogy Summit, Westminster College, March 7, 2020. Teaching Generative Game Music Creation to Undergraduate Video Game Majors.
Mar 02, 2020 Extraordinary Earth: How Nicaragua’s Masaya Volcano helps cool the planet, Infra-sonifier featured on Good Morning America. Extraordinary Earth: How Nicaragua’s Masaya Volcano helps cool the planet.