James McCartney

Thursday, March 13, 2025 • 9am - 10am

James McCartney studied computer science and electronic music at the University of Texas at Austin. He wrote music for various dance and drama productions in Austin, and later created the SuperCollider programming language for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. For a few years he worked on the Hubble Space Telescope project on software for observation planning and data analysis. He worked for 16 years at Apple in the CoreAudio group. Now he is retired and pursuing further interests in possibilities for audio synthesis environments.

Lucile Nihlen

Friday, March 14, 2025 • 9am - 10am

Lucile Nihlen has worked as a professional software developer for over 25 years, working across a broad variety of domains largely in the interactive and digital media spaces. She currently is focused on compilers, toolchains, and programming languages. She is a Senior Staff Software Developer at Google where she is the Technical Lead for Google’s production compiler toolchain. In her spare time she is the author of Hadron, a re-implementation of the SuperCollider interpreter and synthesis server written in Rust and based on LLVM. Lucile lives in Toronto.

Christof Ressi

Saturday, March 15, 2025 • 9am - 10am

Christof Ressi is an Austrian composer, arranger, media artist and software developer. He studied composition and music theory, jazz composition and computer music and currently lives in Vienna. His artistic work spans various genres including contemporary classical art music, jazz, experimental electronics, and media art. He produces music, sound design and video for theater and dance productions and arranges music for all kinds of ensembles and instruments, including big band and orchestra.