Victor Zheng

What a whirlwind two weeks of presenting, performing, and hoping speakers don’t blow up!

I first had the opportunity to present my paper “Fork: Live-Composing a Soundtrack for Chess” at the SuperCollider Symposium hosted at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. A week later I got to present Fork to a different audience, this time to those gathered at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO for the 2025 MOXSonic Festival. Finally, after a hasty drive across two more state lines, I hosted a playtesting workshop of Fork at SEAMUS 2025 hosted at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in addition to engineering the live performance of L’amour pur, Liann’s commissioned work for vocalist (Liann herself) and live electronics as the First Prize winner of 2024 SEAMUS/Sweetwater Composition Commissioning Competition, and performing my own work, Phosphenes for iPad and live electronics.

A massive thank you to all involved in organizing these events! It can’t have been easy to put all the moving pieces together and I had an amazing time.