Bio:

John Granzow is Associate Professor of Music in Performing Arts Technology and Faculty Director of ArtsEngine at the University of Michigan. He teaches courses in musical acoustics, sound synthesis, performance systems and digital fabrication. He initiated the 3d Printing for Acoustics workshop at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. Granzow is a member of the Acoustical Society of America where he often presents his work as well as at conferences such as NIME, ICMC and SMC. His instruments and installations leverage found objects, iterative CAD design, additive manufacturing and embedded sound synthesis. They include Hyper instruments coombining VR and tactile feedback, telematic robots for the conveyance of remote musical gestures, a long-wire installation for Pauline Oliveros, sonified easels for a large-scale installation at La Condition des Soies in Lyon, France, and a hybrid gramophone commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He often composes for unique contexts such as electroacoustic carrillon and a work for ships in the St. Johns Harbor in Newfoundland.