A quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers in our network for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication:

Nick Hwang is a composer, sound artist, and software/game developer with a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Experimental Music and Digital Media from Louisiana State University. His creative works, including music compositions, interactive installations, electronic music, and networked music performances, have been performed and exhibited worldwide. For more information, visit NickHwang.com.

Steven Kemper is a creative music technologist, instrument designer, and composer. As a creative music technologist Steven’s scholarship blends technical development, creative output, and humanistic inquiry. His approach focuses on developing technologies that enhance the connectivity between computer-based music and the physical world, and how we can view both cutting-edge and historical musical technologies through the lenses of anthropomorphism, embodiment, and the cyborg. Research areas include musical robotics, instrument design, human-computer interaction, gesture, and musical expression. Steven’s research has been presented at NIME, ICMC, and MOCO, and published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, Organised Sound, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. As a composer, Steven creates music for acoustic instruments, instruments and computers, musical robots, dance, and video. His compositions have been presented at numerous concerts and festivals around the world. Steven’s first solo album of electroacoustic music, Mythical Spaces, was released by Ravello Records in 2018. He has received awards for his music from the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Meet the Composer, the Danish Arts Council, and the International Computer Music Association. Steven is currently Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Jon Myers is an Assistant Researcher in Systematic Musicology in the Music department at UCSC, where he completed his DMA in Algorithmic Music Composition in 2022. He is a composer, musician, software engineer, music theorist, and teacher. His research interests include spatial audio, digital signal processing, acoustics/psychoacoustics, procedural/generative music, just intonation, non-metric temporality, acoustic ecology, and the development of notation/transcription models for non-western idiomatic musical traditions. He has participated in a variety of different research modalities having to do with sound, technology, computation, and creativity. Myers' research integrates music composition, theory, and analysis to broaden the discursive capabilities of scholars and artists, bringing quantitative approaches to bear on questions of musical style, affect, and coherence.

Karlie Weltman holds a degree in art history and interdisciplinary astronomy from the University of Michigan. They create work in multimedia idioms and have published writing on cinema, media and art. They are endlessly inspired by scholars and creative practitioners who make work that complicates and challenges the conventions or insularity of institutions, disciplines, mediums, genres and hegemony. They are honored to contribute in some small way towards helping other cross-disciplinary practitioners articulate their practice and work in written form.