recompas

Travis Thatcher has performed as an electronic composer and musician for the last six years and as a saxophonist for the last ten years, and has been cutting his teeth on various experimental electronica projects over the course of several years. He currently performs in Judi Chicago (whose CD was deemed the best music made in Atlanta in 2007 by Creative Loafing), recompas, and Early Modern Witch Trials.

He is also an experienced computer programmer; he received a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in Spring 2005 and has worked extensively in industry as well. Thatcher has been doing research in human computer interaction for live performance and interactive sonification, concentrating on mobile applications for networked collaboration and on controller design, including Brainwaves, a sonification installation that allows a group of players to interact with an auditory display of neural activity, Iltur, a series of musical compositions featuring a novel method of interaction between acoustic and electronic instruments with new musical controllers called Beatbugs, and Listening Machines, a concert series exploring concepts of machines listening and improvisation and musical human-machine interaction.