Jiffer Harriman
Lecturer • NEW INSTRUMENTS FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

Jiffer Harriman‘s work explores new approaches for interacting with sound through building digital music instruments and musical robots. He started and runs the local artist community Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology (B.E.A.T.) which hold regular meetings to share and inspire new work. He creates and collaborates on interactive sound art that includes permanent installations in Boulder and Des Moines, as well as the mobile app, Wanderers, a geolocation based sound walk for the Colorado Scale Model Solar System. His music instrument platform, Modular-Muse, has been used in music classes and workshops as a way to introduce new ways of controlling sound through programming and electronics.  He earned his PhD from CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute; a master’s degree in Music, Science and Technology from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University; and is a 2002 graduate in Electrical Engineering from CU Boulder’s College of Engineering.

Publications

  • Jiffer Harriman, Matthew Bethancourt, Abhishek Narula, Michael Theodore, and Mark Gross. 2016. SolidNoise: Making Musical Robots. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2504-2510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892539 . (San Jose, California — May 7 - 12, 2016). 
  • Hyunjoo Oh, Jiffer Harriman, Abhishek Narula, Mark D. GrossMichael Eisenberg, and Sherry Hsi. 2016. Crafting Mechatronic Percussion with Everyday Materials. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 340-348. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839474 (Eindhoven, Netherlands — Feb. 14 - 17, 2016).
  • ​Katherine Goodman, Hunter Ewen, Jean Hertzberg, and Jiffer W. Harriman. 2015. Aesthetics of Design: A Case Sudy of a Course. In ASEE 2015 Proceedings, (Seattle, Washington June 14-17, 2015). 
  • Jiffer Harriman. 2015. Feedback Lap Steel: Exploring Tactile Transducers as String Actuators. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 31-June 3, 2015).

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