Biography

Matias Vilaplana Stark is a music technologist, composer, improviser, and educator from Chile. His research interests lie at the intersection of immersive media and musical practice. In his work, he designs interactive systems for musical performance with virtual reality, composes multi-channel tape pieces for immersive sound systems, and improvises electronic music with custom digital/analog configurations. His work has been presented in festivals and conferences such as SEAMUS, NIME, the SF Tape Music Festival, Cube Fest, CAMPGround and the Performing Media Festival, and has written pieces for different ensembles including Ensemble Dal Niente, Tokyo Gen’On Project, Audiovisual Collective, Popebama, New Thread Quartet, and Hypercube. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Computer Technologies program at the University of Virginia.