Dr. David B. Smith

Professor, Sound, Music and Media TechnologyDepartment of Entertainment TechnologyNYC College of Technology, CUNY
Artistic Director: Center for Holistic Integration
Founding Partner, Director of Creative InnovationRealtime Music Solutions, LLC
President, Bianchi and Smith: Virtual Orchestras for the Performing Arts

Building Bridges to Knowledge OER

2025-March Our final Deliverables have been uploaded to the OER site. The link before this takes you to the entire project. Here is the link to my personal contribution.: Collaborative AI: OER Materials for Exploring AI as a Partner Rather than a Tool

City Tech 22nd Annual Poster Session

November 22 2024. I am presenting at the session with a poster on Balanced Blended Space. The link to a pdf of the Poster can be found here

Balanced Blended Space

One of my current research activities is the development of a universal theoretical framework to describe communication pathways in Combinative reality. Ths project involves the following major efforts

Creation of the Framework
Development of a syntax that can exhaustively describe any event within the Framework
Design and Engineering of a Blended Reality Performance System that can be used to test the framework and syntax.
Creation and production of artistic works that can be designed specifically to test premises of the system

AI in the Classroom

2024, June 8I present at a multi-day workshop on AI in the classroom, certainly an important topic in this day and age.

Building Bridges to Knowledge (BBK) Fellow

I have been selected (along with two other City Tech faculty) as part of a 25 person team to design open education resource (OER) material for the use of AI in the classroom. I am part of the Humanities team.

Summer and Fall BBK Activities

3 Minute BBK Presentations. Each member of the BBK
BBK Press Release
Photoalbum of the event (may be behind a pay wall)

Shedding Light: A Celebration

2024, May 2I co-directed and produced this large Meta-project as part of the Three-year CUNY Anti-Hate initiative. Involving multiple projects across many disciplines, we are using this as a pilot Center for Holistic Integration (CHI) project, and planning for expanding and improving it over the next couple of academic years.

Vienna!

2024, March 9-16Back in beautiful Vienna, meeting with like-minded educational institutions and presenting at Modul University on Balanced Blended Space (See "Summer 2024").

CUNY IT Conference Presentation

2023-November-30I presented at the CUNY IT Conference on November 30, 2023. My presentation was called "Partnership and Collaboration with Generative AI in Combinative Reality" and was the first public delivery of my ideas about Balanced Blended Space

Composition

over 60 compositions for a variety of genres, including concert, theatrical, interactive environment, and film.

Virtual Orchestra

Pioneer in live performance Virtual Orchestra.
Three patents
Two companies
400,000+ performances

Sound Design

over 150 individual designs for venues of all sizes.
Design and implementation of massively-multichannel immersive environments

Human Machine Collaboration

Investigation of AI as a partner, rather than a tool
Development of Universal Framework for Combinative Reality
Blended Reality Performance System
Blended Performance

*In a fit of whimsy, I sprinkle amongst these pages line drawings ("doodles") of mine, which improvization (particularly at meetings, boring or otherwise) has been a source of comfort

ACADEMIA

Tenured Professor of Sound and Music Technology
Chair of Entertainment Technology for a decade
Former Dean of School of Professional Studies, 8 years
Extensive development of interdisciplinary and experiential programs and coursework

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