ABOUT

Austin Franklin is an internationally recognized composer, sound artist, developer, and researcher. His interests include music involving process, methodical thematic development, and an attention to texture and form. His work has been described as having “great subtlety and sophistication” (The American Prize) and “striking and delightful” (New York Concert Review). In 2022, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with a performance of his String Quartet No. 1 “Lanterns” and was awarded the American Prize for Composition. Listen to his work. Länk till annan webbplats, öppnas i nytt fönster.

His recent research, in collaboration with Spotify, Ericsson, and Teenage Engineering, funded by KKS through the IRESAP project, centered on Spatial and merged reality audio, music information retrieval and personal information management, as well as networked audio and web-based audio streaming. He has developed several open source tools for composers and performers, including a video game for live acoustic music performance called Plétude, an application built in openFrameoworks for organising and performing media files on a local drive, and a software library for Cycling ’74 Max for real-time subjective music information retrieval with a microphone.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• Franklin, Austin. "The Aural Cartographer's Dilemma." In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. NIME, 2026.
• Franklin, Austin, Rikard Lindell, and Henrik Frisk. "There and Back Again: Composing for Networked Reverberation Chamber and Live Orchestra." In The 9th Web Audio Conference (10 years). 2025.
• Franklin, Austin, Richard Mitic, Daniel Hedin, Rikard Lindell, and Henrik Frisk. "Development of a Web-Based Real-Time Distributed Reverberation Chamber for Live Concert Applications." Journal of The Audio Engineering Society 73, no. 12 (2025): 872-881.
• Franklin, Austin, and Mary Mathilde Bergeron. "Plétude: New Paradigms for Notation with Game Engine-Based Scores." In Proceedings of the 20th International Audio Mostly Conference, pp. 199-206. 2025.
• Franklin, Austin, and Rikard Lindell. "PLISP: A PlayLISt Processing Language." In PdMaxCon25~. 2025.
• Franklin, Austin. "Chaotic Systems as 3D Height Maps for Sound Synthesis." In Audiovisual Symposium Proceedings, vol. 2, pp. 1-4. 2024.
  
• Franklin, Austin, Daniel Hedin, Rikard Lindell, and Henrik Frisk. "Merging places: A real-time distributed live reverberation chamber." In 2024 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), pp. 54-57. IEEE, 2024.
  
• Thompson, William, Austin Franklin, and Mälardalen Univerity. "Artificial Acoustic Piano Resonance With a Soundboard Mounted Shaker." In Extended Abstracts for the LateBreaking Demo Session of the 25th Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conf., San Francisco, United States, 2024.
• Franklin, Austin, Henrik Frisk, and Rikard Lindell. "Sonic Serendipity: Embracing Discovery in File Finder-Based Improvisation." In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 215-220. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2024.
• Franklin, Austin. "The Robo-Cajon: An Example of Live Performance with Musical Robotics." In International Computer Music Conference: Sound in Motion, ICMC 2024, Seoul, 7 July 2024 through 13 July 2024, pp. 270-273. International Computer Music Association, 2024.
• Franklin, Austin. "Digital Gaming With Acoustic Instruments." CHIME (2023): 19.
• Franklin, Austin. "Building musical systems: An approach using real-time music information retrieval tools." Chroma: Journal of the Australasian Computer Music Association 39, no. 2 (2023).
• Franklin, Austin Alexander. PnP maxtools: Autonomous parameter control in MaxMSP utilizing MIR algorithms. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2023.
• Franklin, Austin. “Collabscape: A Collaborative Musical Net Art Installation.” Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.6770208.
• Franklin, Austin, Dylan Burchett, and William Thompson IV. "Composing and Improvising Using Sound Content-Based Descriptive Filtering." In Proc. Web Audio Conference (WAC). 2021.
• Berdahl, Edgar J., Austin Franklin, and Eric Sheffield. "A Spatially Distributed Vibrotactile Actuator Array (SDVAA) for music-to-vibrotactile sensory augmentation." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, no. 3_Supplement (2019): 1710-1710.