Interdisciplinary Artist · Composer · Violist · Improviser
Scott Rubin
Exploring relationships between movement and sound through analog and digital means.
Contact: shrubin2@gmail.com
Interdisciplinary Artist · Composer · Violist · Improviser
Exploring relationships between movement and sound through analog and digital means.
Contact: shrubin2@gmail.com
Photos: Ricardo Adame, Tim Schmoll, Jubilee Tai, and Gaudeamus Muzeikweek
Scott Rubin is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, violist, and improviser whose work interrogates relationships between sound and movement through analog and digital means.
His recent projects have involved collaborations with musicians and dancers, often incorporating interactive acoustic/electronic improvisation, expanded performance practices, motion-sensors, and live video. In these projects, he engages themes of intimacy, control, and the sublime.
Scott earned a PhD at the University of California at Berkeley where he studied with Ken Ueno, Franck Bedrossian, Myra Melford, Edmund Campion, and Cindy Cox. He was an active researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.
He completed his masters degree studying with Philippe Leroux at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Previously, he earned a Bachelor of Music in music composition and a Bachelor of Science in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where his primary teachers were Reynold Tharp, Philipp Blume, and Stephen Taylor. Scott was also a student in the Experimental Music Studios, under the tutelage of Scott A. Wyatt.
At McGill, Scott worked as a composer for the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab under Robert Zatorre, where he wrote music to be used in music cognition experiments. Scott has studied music cognition with Stephen McAdams and Caroline Palmer. Previously, he studied with Mark Jude Tramo at the Institute for Music and Brain Science.
Scott was a co-founder and co-organizer for the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab until 2014. This is a week-long performance and composition workshop that focuses on the creation of new music through fostering collaborative relationships between performers and composers. He also performed guitar for Speakeasy Electro Swing Montreal.
His awards include the McGill University Graduate Excellence Fellowship, the Florence Gould Foundation Scholarship from the European American Musical Alliance, the Geraldine B. Cooke Scholarship from the University of Illinois, the UIUC School of Music Composition-Theory Area Achievement Award, and grants from SOCAN and the Music Graduate Students Society at McGill University. He has participated in the Modern Academy in Hong Kong, Impuls Academy in Graz, Austria, Recontres de Musique Nouvelle at the Domaine Forget Sessions in Charlevoix, Québec as well as the European American Musical Alliance Sessions in Paris, France.