Kenneth Fields, Ph.D.

Professor. CEMC, China Electronic Music Center. China's Central Conservatory of Music. Beijing, China. ken@ccom.edu.cn

Assoc. Professor, Department of Digital Art and Design, Peking University. Beijing, China. http://tiki.ss.pku.edu.cn

Asia Pacific Regional Editor Organised Sound. Cambridge Univ Press. UK.

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Graduated with Doctorate in Media Arts from the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2000. Professor at China's Central Conservatory of Music from 2002. Associate Professor in the School of Software, Department of Digital Art and Design, Peking University from 2004.

New compositions played at the China Contemporary Music Festival at China's Central Conservatory of Music (2004). Sound installation at the China Millennium Monument (2004), Sounding Beijing Festival (2003), Academy of Media Arts in Koln (2002). Production work includes recording and mastering of the music soundtrack for the movie 'ShouJi' (Cell Phone) (2003) directed by Feng Xiaogang. Original music composed for the theatrical production of Animal Farm by George Orwell produced in Beijing in 2003.

Other concurrent posts:                  
Co-Organizer: Musicacoustica Festival, Beijing China    Board Member. Electronic Music Association of China. Member: International Computer Music Association.
Reviewer for Leonardo LABS: Thesis Abstract Service

Other Performances

Symphony of Changes: Parliament of World Religions. Chicago, 1993.
Life in the Universe: Internazionale di Musica Moderna e Contemporanea. Parma, Italy, 1997.
Beijing: International Computer Music Conference. Beijing, 1999.
New Computer Music Works: Academy of Media Arts. Cologne, Germany, 2002.                            

Research Projects

Innovative Campus, Collaborative Edu Space      DAO - Digital Arts Ontology, current.             Mediabook - Collaborative Workspaces. 2001
DRIVE: Distributed Real-Time Interactive Virtual Environments. UCSB. 1998.
Haptic Soundscapes: Sonified Maps. UCSB. 1999.

Publications

Review: David Jaffe, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Pub. Computer Music Journal. Spring, 1997.
(CD) Life in the Universe: Published by Computer Music Journal. Spring, 1997.
Review: Studio Vision Pro. Pub. Computer Music Journal. Fall, 1998.
Paper: Postformalism. Pub. ICMC Proceedings, 1999.
Paper: Interdisciplining of Computer Music. Pub. ICMC Proceedings, 2000.
Dissertation: InquirySpace: An Immersive Document in the Style of the 'Opera Reduction.'
Paper: 'The Map Is the Territory' published in the proceedings for the Consciousness Reframed 2004 Conference, Qi and Complexity.

Sound Installation Art

Virtual Concrete: Siggraph. Los Angeles, 95. Terminals: UCSB Art Gallery, 96.
BodiesIncorporated: Siggraph. New Orleans, 96; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 97; San Francisco Art Institute, 98.
Frank Gerry Exhbition - Soundscapes. Milliennium Monument, 2004.