PAPERS

Emory Smith

EMGOR / California Institute of the Arts

One season shipping, two deferred — rendered here in paper format

2026–2027 Season

  1. Workflow of a Modern Digital Luthier
    In submission — ROTURA · with Ajay Kapur
    The methodology. Embedded audio, fabrication, and interaction design as one workflow, argued through NEPTR and BOUBA.
  2. DemiurgeOS
    Running — Linux Audio Conference target · with Ilai Gilbert, Ajay Kapur
    The audio-first Pi OS under NEPTR — sync layer, MIDI pool, global clock, one config file.
  3. Performance System of a Modern Digital Luthier
    Running — ICMC target
    The instrument: Csound on a Pi 5, 63 effect modules across 20 menus, a Rust supervisor underneath, 6 ms string to amplifier.
  4. NeuralGrid
    Mid-build — NIME target · with Ajay Kapur, Jake Cheng
    A controller that speaks a symbolic vocabulary borrowed from tabla bols before it speaks sound, then translates through seven perceptual axes.
  5. Digital Lutherie and Expression for the Electronic Artist: A 2027 Retrospective and Prospectus
    In development — CalArts · with Ajay Kapur
    The binding argument. What the OS, the instrument, and the methodology mean together.
  6. BOUBA
    Built — TEI / DIS target
    A quadraphonic therapeutic sound object, roughly $80 to reproduce, plus a second prototype and a free web version.
  7. Integrating Neural Amp Modeling into Csound
    Complete — submitted · PDF + opcode source
    NAMProcess — real-time Neural Amp Modeler inference as a Csound opcode, with live dry-referenced volume compensation.

2027+

  1. OMNIPLEX
    Deferred — folding into DemiurgeOS
    One USB-C cable for audio, video, and control. A Rust workspace; the transport is being absorbed into the OS.
  2. Open-Pedal
    Concept — deferred
    An open-source, modular framework against the price of DSP.