Nathan Wolek
Chair Of Creative Arts Department
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Wolek is a sound artist, audio researcher, and academic leader with 15+ years of experience blending electronic music, field recording, and software tools into interdisciplinary creative practice. As Chair of Stetson University's Creative Arts Department and Lydia Pfund Endowed Professor, he teaches acoustic ecology, sound design, and programming while overseeing strategy, budgets, and faculty development. He is best known in the electronic-music community for authoring the Granular Toolkit and the widely used LowkeyNW Max package, work that bridges research-grade signal processing and practical performance tools. A two-time Fulbright Scholar whose compositions and installations have been presented internationally, he brings a research-driven approach to classroom mentorship and student capstones. Notably, his practice emphasizes rapidly edited textures from personally significant environmental recordings, a signature aesthetic that informs both his creative work and pedagogical projects.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Music, Digital Arts, Bachelor of Music, Digital Arts at Stetson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Music Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Music Technology at Northwestern University
Github Skills (31)
umbrella10
msp10
audio10
stereo10
spectrogram9
audiomoth9
cpp8
max8
panning8
bash7
audio-analysis7
amplitude7
intervals6
pitch-detection6
audio-effect6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nwolek/LowkeyNW
Nov 2014 - Feb 2019
Package for Cycling74 Max. Contains updated objects from the Granular Toolkit, a classic stereo reverb and some twists on standard MSP objects that makes them savvy about zero-crossings.
Contributions:8 releases, 307 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 3 months
cycling74reverbmspzerostereo
nwolek/stetson-modular-guide
Jan 2020 - Oct 2023
A reference for using the modular synths available to DIGA 365-366 students.
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
digasynthsmodular
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