My research interests are in contemporary music composition, history of electroacoustic music, spectral music, computer music, Japanese aesthetics, human-computer interaction, technology-mediated performance, new media arts, algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence, transmediation, and integration of technology into Greek tragedy, Japanese noh theatre, and renga poetry.
Publications
Articles
May 2025, “Ma and Traditional Japanese Aesthetics in Spatial Music and Sonic Art”, Cambridge University Press: Organised Sound
September 2024, “Mimetic Possibilities: Collaboration through Movement in Multimedia Opera”, Kurt Mikolajczyk, Austin Oting Har, Laura Wachsmann, Oliver Bown, and Samuel Ferguson, MIT Press: Leonardo
June 2019, “Music as a Discourse’/ ‘Music as a State of Sound’: An Interpretation of Gérard Grisey’s Conceptual Framework for Spectral Musical Composition”, University of Melbourne: Context: Journal of Music Research
Conference Proceedings
December 2025, “Visualizing Vibrato: A Library of Wiggles to Broaden Technical and Cultural Horizons”, Barnaby Brown and Austin Oting Har, Proceedings of TENOR International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation
June 2025, “Creating a White Noise Instrument for Collaborative Improvisation”, Austin Oting Har and Kurt Mikolajczyk, Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
October 2023, “Integrating Live Computer Tools into the Creation, Adaptation, and Performance of Japanese Noh Theatre”, Audio Engineering Society Convention
Presentations
07/15/26 International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Musics 2026
06/20/26 Unheard Legacies, Early Recordings Association Conference, University of Glasgow
01/07/26 The 6th IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Hawaii
11/12/25 Principles of Music Composing, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
11/03/25 TENOR International Conference, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
10/17/25 46th New Music Festival – MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Ohio
03/22/25 SEAMUS National Conference, Department of Music, Purdue University
10/18/24 Composition Colloquium, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley
10/15/24 Creative Computing for Music and the Arts, CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley
10/14/24 Seminar in Contemporary Music, Morrison, University of California, Berkeley
10/25/23 Applications in Audio, Javits Center, New York City, Audio Engineering Society Convention
09/26/23 Music Technology Innovation, Research & Strategy Innovation Center, University of the Virgin Islands
With Barnaby Brown
October 2020, Five Types of Vibrato: exploring the possibilities on doublepipes
October 2020, A hypothesis for the birth of ancient Greek musical notation, c. 500 BCE
Edited
April 2020, Isobel Savulescu, “How does Robert Glasper and Miles Davis’ Album Everything’s Beautiful (2016) Move the Legacy of Jazz Rap Forward?”University of Sydney: Sydney Undergraduate Journal of Musicology