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        Stewart <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Engart </span>(b. 1991,
        he/him) is a Durham, North Carolina based composer, performer, sound artist,
        and software engineer working in the fields of experimental electronic
        music, audiovisual installation, and innovative chamber music.
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        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December_2022"><em>Current as of December 2022.</em></a
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      Stewart <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Engart </span>(b. 1991,
      he/him) is a Durham, North Carolina based composer, performer, sound artist,
      and software engineer working in the fields of experimental electronic
      music, audiovisual installation, and innovative chamber music. His work
      explores computer-assisted musical form and gesture, as well as
      experimental synthesis techniques.
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        Stewart recently completed his PhD dissertation titled "Composing in Latent Space: Music Information Retrieval Driven Algorithmic Composition" at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied
        with
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://clarlow.org/">Clarence Barlow</a>,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.jpoliveira.com">Joao Pedro Oliveira</a
        >,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.curtisroads.net/"
          >Curtis Roads</a
        >, and
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.andrewtholl.com/">Andrew Tholl</a
        >.
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    <p>
      <a
        class="fancy-link"
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/December_2022"
        ><em>Current as of December 2022.</em></a
      >
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        Stewart <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Engart </span>(b. 1991,
        Hickory, North Carolina, he/him) is a Durham, North Carolina based composer, performer,
        sound artist, and software engineer working in the fields of
        experimental electronic music, audiovisual installation, and innovative
        chamber music. His work explores computer-assisted musical form and
        gesture, as well as experimental synthesis techniques.
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        Engart's works have recently been performed by <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.transientcanvas.com/">Transient Canvas</a>,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.hocket.org/">HOCKET</a>,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.hfm-wuerzburg.de/en/events/ensembles/contemporary-music-ensemble">New Music Ensemble, Würzburg (Robert HP Platz)</a
        >,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.henriqueportovedo.com/"
          >Henrique Portovedo</a
        >, the
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://m-c-m-e.ru/eng/"
          >Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble</a
        >,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://music.fsu.edu/ensembles/early-music"
          >Florida State University Crumhorn Ensemble</a
        >
        and the
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.yoonsooksong.com/piano-duo"
          >Dunamis Duo</a
        >.
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	Engart's electronic music has recently been presented at the International Computer Music Conference (Chile and Ireland), the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, the New York City Electronic Music Festival, L'atelier de Création Sonore et Musicale 116 (Japan), the California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (Stanford/CCRMA, CalArts, UCSD, Mills College, UCSB), the International Conference on Live Interfaces (Portugal), and I Encontro de LiveLoopists (Portugal).
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        Additionally he is interested in the restoration and preservation of
        early audio cylinders, Engart works as the Cylinder Audio Engineer at
        the
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/"
          >UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.</a
        >
        In this role he has digitized and restored cylinders dating from
        1890-1929, updated digitization and metadata work-flows, and created
        documentation of best practices.
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        Engart recently completed his PhD dissertation titled "Composing in Latent Space: Music Information Retrieval Driven Algorithmic Composition" at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied
        with
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://clarlow.org/">Clarence Barlow</a>,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.jpoliveira.com">Joao Pedro Oliveira</a
        >,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.curtisroads.net/"
          >Curtis Roads</a
        >, and
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.andrewtholl.com/">Andrew Tholl</a
        >.
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        Prior to his time at UCSB, he received a BM and BA from the University
        of North Carolina, studying with
        <a
          class="fancy-link"
          href="https://music.unc.edu/people/musicfaculty/allen-anderson/"
          >Allen Anderson</a
        >,
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://artiststephenanderson.com/"
          >Stephen Anderson</a
        >, and
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://www.leeweisert.com/">Lee Weisert</a>,
        and a MM from the University of Georgia, studying with
        <a class="fancy-link" href="#">Adrian Childs</a> and
        <a class="fancy-link" href="https://www.petervanzandtlane.com/">Peter Van Zandt Lane</a
        >, where he was a Graduate Research Assistant for
        <a class="fancy-link" href="http://ideasforcreativeexploration.com/"
          >Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)</a
        >, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts.
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