John Keston
Professor Of Digital Media Arts at Audio Cookbook
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolJohn Keston is a multidisciplinary professor, composer, and developer with over a decade teaching interactive media and a two-decade creative career blending electronic music, sound design, and web application development. He designs real-time systems that translate visual and gestural input into stochastic musical structures—most notably the Gestural Music Sequencer—and documents his methods via AudioCookbook.org. Based in France but professionally rooted in the U.S., he has exhibited and performed work at major festivals and institutions including Moogfest, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and the Weisman Art Museum. As an educator at the University of St. Thomas with an MFA in Sound Art/New Media, he pairs practice-led research with hands-on instruction, mentoring students in interactive and generative media. Notably, his portfolio spans composition for dance and collaborative sound projects as well as sustained work producing independent releases through Unearthed Music.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Technology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Technology at Metropolitan State UniversityMFA, Sound Art / New Media, MFA, Sound Art / New Media at Minneapolis College of Art and DesignUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (12)
spectral6
phrases6
timer4
kiosk4
queue3
music3
visualization2
spark2
audience2
animated1
animation1
collaboration1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jkeston/instantcomposer
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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jkeston/HKAGS
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Collaborative Animated Graphics Scores by Mike Hodnick and John C.S. Keston
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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