Primary Collaborators

Drew Schnurr

Heather Warren-Crow

Sy Redding

​Drew Schnurr is a composer, sound artist, theorist, and performer blurring traditional lines in media and musical genre. Schnurr's wide-ranging experience in classical music, electronic music, rock, jazz, Latin music and other international music forms combined with his expertise in modern sound design, music production and audio technology, informs his diverse approach.

​Over the past decade, his concert works have been performed nationally and internationally at various festivals while his scoring and sound design work has been featured on various television networks, and internationally on film screens and in galleries. Schnurr's current creative work engages multiple levels of visual, music, and social culture.

In 2013, Schnurr completed his PhD in composition from UCLA and returned to serve on faculty at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, teaching Electronic Music and Sonic Arts until 2017. In 2018, he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Composition and Media at the University of North Texas -- a dual appointment in the College of Music and Department of Media Arts.

​Heather Warren-Crow is a media theorist and performance artist. Her scholarship investigates the ways in which the aesthetics of audio-visual media model conceptions of agency, embodiment, and individuality. As an artist, she practices performance across multiple mediums—video art, sound art, instruction art, body art, and theatre. Her creative work attempts to expose the exquisite, uncomfortable tension between the predetermined and the spontaneous, especially as that dialectic shapes our understandings of what it means to be a person.

Warren-Crow has exhibited at galleries, performance spaces, and festivals around the world, including the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, World Stage Design in Taiwan, the Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival in Bulgaria, the PNEM sound art festival in the Netherlands, and the Capital City Film Festival in Michigan in the US.

She has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Texas Tech University.

Sy Redding is a biophysicist and known Texan currently at UC San Francisco.
Redding did his graduate work at Columbia University in the laboratories of Eric Greene and David Reichman. Using a single molecule imaging technique called DNA curtains, Redding investigated the physical mechanisms through which proteins locate, recognize, and extract genomic information. His research has explored how bacterial RNA polymerase locates promoter sequences within the genome, the mechanism of sequence alignment during homologous recombination, and how viruses are selectively recognized and destroyed by the CRISPR immune system.

At UCSF, Redding uses DNA curtains to explore how protein-DNA interactions change as DNA is organized into chromatin: how nature balances the individual protein’s need to access DNA against the cell’s pressure to organize the genome. 

Student Researchers

Jose Santos P. Ardivilla is a political cartoonist from the Philippines.  He is a Fulbright scholar currently enrolled at the PhD in Fine Arts Program at the Texas Tech University.  Some of his works can be found in Ardivilla.com. You may reach him at jose.ardivilla[at]ttu.edu.