Dr. Justin Houser is an independent composer whose music focuses on modernist aesthetics, electroacoustic/live electronic music, home built electronics through the use of littleBits circuits, his cat, and bicycling. His acoustic music focuses on the use of serial and set-based structures to define many aspects, with the addition of various indeterminate elements to break up the monotony of strict absolute serialization. While in his electronic works, a focus on motion tracking and live interactive music create more free flowing and less angular musical realities. Dr. Houser’s music has been selected for performance at SCI Regional Conferences, N_SEME Conferences, the Electronic Music Midwest Conference, and the Shared Knowledge Conference.
Dr. Houser completed his PhD in Fine Arts with a field of emphasis in Music and focus in composition in 2014 from Texas Tech University. His dissertation “Reflections” for Interactive Electronics, Dancer, and Variable Instrument made use of indeterminate compositional techniques to create the instrumental part and the Xbox Kinect to track the dancer’s motions, creating and manipulating the electronic part. Dr. Houser’s electronic music continues to use motion tracking through the Xbox Kinect, the Leap Motion, and littleBits circuits.
Dr. Houser completed his PhD in Fine Arts with a field of emphasis in Music and focus in composition in 2014 from Texas Tech University. His dissertation “Reflections” for Interactive Electronics, Dancer, and Variable Instrument made use of indeterminate compositional techniques to create the instrumental part and the Xbox Kinect to track the dancer’s motions, creating and manipulating the electronic part. Dr. Houser’s electronic music continues to use motion tracking through the Xbox Kinect, the Leap Motion, and littleBits circuits.