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Artist Bio

Jamie Allen

Jamie makes sound and sound makers with his head and hands.

Jamie Allen plays live improvised electronics, with self-built instruments.   He is sometimes one-third of the UK improvisational trio The Age of Wire and String (alongside guitarist Neil Davidson and cellist Peter Nicholson).   Jamie prepares public art and interactive sound pieces, designs digital musical instruments and installation sound art.   Jamie has shown work and performed at unique venues throughout New York City over the past years (including an Episcopalian Church with the "Sacred Spaces" installation, the Chelsea Art Museum with "Don't Know" and at the Frying Pan and John Zorn's 'Tonic' with the "boomBox" instrument).

Lately, Jamie is pursuing a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.   He is interested in the new facility digital instrument design gives improvisers to distance themselves from traditional paradigms of group improvisation and in the improvisational implications of interactive public art.   His research interests center around the generalization of interactivity principles to novel fields and areas, including architecture, industrial design and education.