Publications

  • Dunn, David, David Kant, Matthew Mitchell, Ryan Page, Greg Sullo, Mustafa Walker, Brian Ford, et al. 2020. “Recording Meta-soundscapes: Synchronized Multi-frame Audio Field-recording at a Large Spatial Scale.” OSF Preprints. February 28. doi:10.31219/osf.io/9tz2w. Open access preprint.
  • Kant, David, and Larry Polansky. “The Structure of Morphological Space.” Perspectives of New Music, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2019, pp. 441–498. PDF on JSTOR.
  • Kant, David. “Machine Listening as a Generative Model: Happy Valley Band.” PhD diss., UC Santa Cruz, 2019. Open access PDF.
  • Heying, Madison and David Kant. “The Emergent Magician: Metaphors of Mind in the Work of David Dunn.” Sound American 18: The David Dunn Issue (2018), Web.
  • Kant, David. “Making Music Through Machine Ears.” Humanising Algorithmic Listening (blog). Sussex Humanities Lab (April 2017), Web.
  • Interview by Emily Bick. “Album stream and interview: David Kant of Happy Valley Band talks about their ‘machine listening’ album.” The Wire (February 2017), Web.
  • Kant, David. “The Happy Valley Band: Creative (Mis)Transcription.” Leonardo Music Journal 26 (2016): 76-78. PDF.
  • Kant, David. “Decomposing Music: Making the Happy Valley Band.” Experimental Music Yearbook (2016), Web.
  • Kant, David. “For (Cyborg) Pianist.” Sound American 10: The Christian Wolff Issue (2014), Web.