Kirk Pearson
Composer, Sound Designer at Dogbotic
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Pearson is a creative composer and sound designer with a decade of experience founding and leading Dogbotic, a hybrid audio lab that produces inventive sound for film, installations and interactive media. Grounded in formal composition training from Oberlin and practical production work at studios like Antfood, he blends acoustic musicianship (clarinet, cello) with experimental signal design and programming. His background also spans scientific research—co-authoring the first 3D trilobite morphometric study at the American Museum of Natural History—and HCI prototyping at Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a rare mix of arts, data-driven research and interface design. Kirk’s work is notable for playful cross-disciplinary projects that appeal to humans, dogs and robots alike, and for a collaborative history that includes hundreds of releases with the global composition collective BIT.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music (BM), Music Composition, Bachelor of Music (BM), Music Composition at Oberlin ConservatoryAdv. Regents Diploma with Arts Endorsement, Cello Performance, Adv. Regents Diploma with Arts Endorsement, Cello Performance at Fiorello LaGuardia School for Music and ArtBA, Geology, Cinema Studies, BA, Geology, Cinema Studies at Oberlin College
English, French, German, Spanish, PortugueseGithub contributions (4)
triceratropes/audioquirks
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
triceratropes/gallerybaw
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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