Julie Zhu Editor & Author

Constantin Basica, DMA, is a Romanian composer whose work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His music has been presented internationally by distinguished artists at events such as MATA Festival, Ars Electronica Festival (Bucharest Garden), World New Music Days, George Enescu Festival, and the International Computer Music Conference. He earned his doctorate in composition and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University. In recent years, he has collaborated with researchers on developing AI tools for co-creativity that explore “translations” between media. Basica is a lecturer in music at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Julie Zhu, DMA, is a composer, artist, and carillonist. Her work stands interstitial to instrumental music, electronics, and performance within settings ranging from chamber music stagings to museum sound installations to experimental film scores. Concision and poetry characterize her music, with commissions from Radio France, Dark Music Days Reykjavík, GMEM Marseille, GRAME Lyon, and Chamber Music America. Her research on music and AI focuses on the project Deep Drawing, which tests a machine’s ability to bring the intricate noises of drawing and writing to visual life. Zhu is an assistant professor of performing arts technology at the University of Michigan.