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Nov 24, 2025 Real-Time Infrasound Sonification for On-Site Active Volcano Monitoring, Presentation at the Annual Workshop 2025, IASPEI/IAVCEI Inter-Association Commission On Volcano Seismology & Acoustics. Volcano Seismology and Acoustics workshop
May 12, 2025 EMS 12-25 May, 2025 Residency at Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm, Sweden. Elektronmusikstudion EMS.
Apr 18, 2025 Faculty Artist Series Recital: Dr. Kramer Milan, percussion, and Dr. Ted Apel, electronics. Read more.
Feb 16, 2025 Participant in the Speculative Sound Synthesis Workshop, 18 - 23 February 2025, Graz, Austria. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Speculative Sound Synthesis Workshop.
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 of Sharing Speculative Relativity.
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.
Dec 05, 2019 The Seeing of Sound
Sep 10, 2019 “Campus Sound Art Pushes Boundaries” by Connor Flynn in The Arbiter, September 10, 2019. Campus Sound Art Pushes Boundaries
Aug 26, 2019 Concomitant Variations
Jul 31, 2019 Review of False Iguana (with Anthony Burr) in Cassette Gods blog, July 2019. <a href=”http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2019/07/ted-apel-anthony-burr-false-iguana-c35.html”>Cassette Gods</a>
Jan 05, 2019 Review of False Iguana (with Anthony Burr) in Lost in a Sea of Sound, January 2019. <a href=”https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2019/01/ted-apel-and-anthony-burr-false-iguana.html”>Lost in a Sea of Sound</a>
Sep 27, 2018 Aotearoa Audio Arts
Aug 10, 2018 Stiction, digital release of solo live electronic music, 2018.
Jun 22, 2018 False Iguana, with Anthony Burr. Cassette and digital release on Muzan Editions, Japan, 2018.
Apr 13, 2018 Apospory, digital release of solo live electronic music, 2018.
Apr 01, 2017 Incidental Speakers, sound installation at the SEAMUS Conference, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota. April 2017.
May 20, 2016 Cubic Response
May 01, 2016 Units of Conveyance, solo exhibit at the Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow, Idaho. May 2016.
Jun 01, 2015 Stable Transient Separation, a Max for Live audio effect, is available at maxforlive.com. Stable Transient Separation
May 08, 2015 Findings, digital release of solo live electronic music, 2015.
Feb 17, 2015 Herrett Center for Arts and Sciences
Sep 11, 2014 The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery
Sep 01, 2014 In residence at the Douglas Lilburn Residence in Wellington, New Zealand for September and October 2014. Lilburn Residence
Jul 09, 2014 Paper “Sinusoidality Analysis and Noise Synthesis in Phase Vocoder Based Time-Stretching” at the 2014 Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, Australia. ACMC 2014
Mar 29, 2014 Presentation of Response Characters at Arduino Day Wellington, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2014.
Mar 01, 2014 Sonic Boom: Ted Apel and a New Generation of Artists Explore the Art of Sound
Feb 01, 2014 Response Characters, installation at the Ussachevsky Electronic Music Festival, Claremont, California. February 2014.
Jan 15, 2014 Selected for Artforum International Magazine’s Best of 2013 for the Call and Resonance installation.
Jan 01, 2014 Venation Division on Transforms: The Nerve Events Project, Cuneiform Records, 1993. Transforms
Sep 15, 2013 Aural Art: The sound, the fury, the tiny loudspeakers of Ted Apel
Sep 01, 2013 Mirror Music Box, installation at Artspace at the Eagle Performing Arts Center, Eagle, Idaho. September–October 2013.
Sep 01, 2013 Enso Artspace
Jun 01, 2013 Selected as the 2013 winner of the FETA Prize in Sound Art for the work Call and Resonance. FETA Prize
May 01, 2013 Composer Workshop at the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand, April 2013.
Mar 01, 2013 Unfinished
Jun 15, 2012 Guitar Layers Used on Tiger Flower Circle Sun – Remixes with Christopher Willits. Digital release, 2012.
Mar 17, 2012 Washer Dryer at Sound Through Barriers, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 2012.
Oct 08, 2010 Buran Control Room (with Amanda Hamilton) at Modern Art 2010, Boise, Idaho.
Jun 01, 2010 Coilings, solo exhibit at the Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow, Idaho. June–August 2010.
Apr 22, 2010 Potential Difference at LUMEN, Middlesex College, Edison, New Jersey, 2010.
Dec 01, 2009 Artist in Residence, 8th Street Marketplace AiR program, Boise, Idaho. December 2009 – March 2010.
Jan 10, 2009 Knob and Tube Variations
Nov 10, 2008 Whiteout at the Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, New Jersey. November 10 – December 12, 2008.
Sep 12, 2008 Trialogue at Merge Visual, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia. September 12 – November 2, 2008.
Jan 01, 2008 Immer Lichter, a remix of Radiohead’s Reckoner, 2008.
Sep 14, 2007 Trochilics at Set in Motion, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 2007.
Jun 15, 2007 Potential Difference at Invisible.Other, New American Art Union, Portland, Oregon, April 2007.
Mar 01, 2007 sound/matter, solo exhibit at the Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, California. March 2007.
Dec 01, 2006 sound/matter, solo exhibit at the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. December 2006 – February 2007.
Oct 07, 2005 Shakers at the Boise Open Studios Collective Organization, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
Mar 11, 2005 Irresonance, installation at the Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 2005.
Dec 01, 2004 Irresonance wins the grand prize at the Idaho Triennial, Boise Art Museum. December 2004 – March 2005.
Feb 01, 2004 Trochilics, installation at the Cuesta College Fine Arts Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California. February 2004.
Feb 01, 2004 Potential Difference at Consolidated Works, Seattle. February – April 2004.
Dec 01, 2003 surface osculations on DVD Computer Music Journal: Sound and Video Anthology, Volume 27, Issue 4, MIT Press, 2003.
Jun 06, 2003 Fireside Broadcast at Aether Fest #1, Festival of International Radio Art, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. June 6–27, 2003.
Apr 18, 2003 Irresonance at Three Sound Works, CRCA, UC San Diego, California, 2003.
Oct 01, 2002 Trochilics at SEARCH V, UCSD. October 2002.
Jun 01, 2002 Corvus Brachyrhynchos Chimes permanently installed at the UCSD Stuart Collection. June 2002.
Feb 01, 2002 Trochilics at the Ussachevsky Festival, Pomona College. February 2002.
Jan 01, 2002 Trochilics at the CEAIT Electronic Music Festival, CalArts, Valencia, California, January 2002.
Sep 07, 2001 Potential Difference on the CD Cyber Arts 2001: Digital Musics, Ars Electronica, 2001.
Sep 01, 2001 Potential Difference exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, September 2001.
Jul 01, 2001 Rebecca Goldfarb Fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, California, July 2001.
Jan 01, 2001 Potential Difference selected as a prizewinner in the Sound Installation category at the 28th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, France, 2001.
Jan 01, 2001 Potential Difference receives an honorary mention in the Digital Musics category at the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2001.
Aug 27, 2000 surface osculations II at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. International Computer Music Conference, August 27 – September 1, 2000.
Jul 01, 2000 Tethered and Lambent Planes at the Sound Symposium, St. John’s, Newfoundland. July 2000.
May 12, 2000 Tethered and Lambent Planes, installation at Russell Space, UC San Diego, California, 2000.
Apr 16, 2000 Wenke’s View at the Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music. April 16–22, 2000.
Feb 11, 2000 Potential Difference at the CEAIT Electronic Music Festival, CalArts, Valencia, California, 2000.
Jan 01, 2000 a radial and dia lara released on Kiss Without Makeup by Franklin Bruno, Absolutely Kosher Records, 2000.
Mar 17, 1999 The Dreaming Subject Itself, a sinusoidal sound art exhibition at San Francisco State University. March 17 – April 14, 1999.
Jan 01, 1999 Contribution to Rolf Langebartels’ SOUNDBAG project, Berlin, 1999. SOUNDBAG
Jan 01, 1999 Potential Difference at the Audio Art Festival, Goethe-Institut, Kraków, Poland, November 1999.
Jan 01, 1999 surface osculations selected as a prizewinner in the Sound Installation category at the 26th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, France, 1999.
Nov 06, 1998 Plainfield Fire, installation at the Bregman Electroacoustic Music Studio, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1998.
Sep 18, 1998 surface osculations, installation at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, La Jolla, California, 1998.
Jun 12, 1998 Lay Investiture, for computer-processed text by Chris Mann, on CD The Frog Peak Collaborations Project, Frog Peak Music, 1998.
Apr 25, 1997 Portrait of Malleus at the EarArt Sound Media Exhibit, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California, 1997.
Jun 14, 1996 Coupled Shifts, Steel Disk 2, and Thunderer at SoundCulture 96, WORKS/San Jose, California, 1996.
Feb 01, 1996 Coupled Shifts, installation at the Ussachevsky Electronic Music Festival, Claremont, California. February 1996.
Sep 15, 1995 Bosque, Mobile, Maricopa, Bon: Audio Works by Ted Apel. Independent CD release, 1995.
Mar 19, 1993 Electromagnetic Steel Disk 2 at the SEAMUS Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1993.
Feb 21, 1992 Electromagnetic Steel Disk #1, live performance with Pauline Oliveros, New Music Festival, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1992.
May 15, 1990 Fleming Fellowship for the Built Environment, Pomona College, 1990.