What is it that I do?

This is to prove that I can and do work. Who needs proof? I do.
All these are in collaboration with some very sound colleagues.
That my advisor is involved goes without saying...

TAPESTREA

You like sound so much that you collect it. But then you wonder, what can you do with all this audio? We think you can use your existing sounds to create many exciting new sounds. Coincidentally, we are working on ways to make this easier for you, such as letting you pull out sound components you like, modify them, reuse them with other sounds, and more. Useful for composers, sound designers, game developers, virtual reality dudes, performers, audio/multimedia researchers. And you.
More information: taps.cs.princeton.edu

Mobile phone music

Mobile phones and related devices are readily available and rapidly improving. Apart from the usual extended list of applications, we can also have fun with these sensor-rich, portable units... and make music! Georg Essl and Michael Rohs have been exploring this arena in many different ways. Together, we investigated the musical scope of one "sensor" all cell phones must have: the microphone. Useful for composers, developers, and on-the-go musicians.
More information: Mobile STK (the parent project)

sndtools

"I see a voice," Shakespeare wrote. (Yes, he did. A Midsummer Night's Dream.) Now you can, too -- see a voice, that is. What's more, you can see it rolling along the waterfalls of time, in moving hues, from many angles. You can even see some of the information your computer gets from it, and have the computer mimic or modify it, using classic digital signal processing algorithms. Useful for screaming kids, educators, home entertainment, sound visualization.
More information: sndtools.cs.princeton.edu

ChucK / Audicle

A new audio programming language originated by Ge Wang, ChucK allows you to synthesize all kinds of sound, in a concurrent, on-the-fly, strongly timed way. It is not necessary to know the meanings of these keywords in order to use the language. There is a lot more (good stuff) to be said about it, but really you ought to see and hear it yourself. Luckily, the websites listed below have a lot of relevant information. Useful for audio/multimedia researchers, developers, composers, performers, educators, students.
More information: chuck.cs.princeton.edu, audicle.cs.princeton.edu

Previous work

As an undergraduate, I had the privilege of gaining research experience in several different areas. This played a huge role in making me even consider graduate school.
More information: my old research page

publications

A. Misra, P. R. Cook. "Toward Synthesized Environments: A Survey of Analysis and Synthesis Methods for Sound Designers and Composers." ICMC 2009. [read]
A. Misra, D. Blank, D. Kumar. "A Music Context for Teaching Introductory Computing." ITiCSE 2009. [read / wander]
T. Lieber, A. Misra, P. R. Cook. "Freedom in TAPESTREA! Voice-Aware Track Manipulations." ICMC 2008. [read / wander]
A. Misra, G. Essl, M. Rohs. "Microphone as Sensor in Mobile Phone Performance." NIME 2008. [read / wander]
A. Misra, G. Wang, P. R. Cook. "Musical Tapestries: Re-composing Natural Sounds." JNMR 36:4, 2007. [wander]
A. Misra, P. R. Cook, G. Wang. "Musical Tapestries: Re-composing Natural Sounds." ICMC 2006. (JNMR Distinguished Paper Award.) [read / wander]
A. Misra, P. R. Cook, G. Wang. "A New Paradigm for Sound Design." DAFx 2006. [read / wander]
A. Misra, P. R. Cook, G. Wang. "TAPESTREA: Sound Scene Modeling by Example." Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2006. [read / wander]
G. Wang, P. R. Cook, A. Misra. "ChucK, On-the-fly Programming, and the Audicle." Sketch, SIGGRAPH 2006. [read / wander]
G. Wang, A. Misra, P. R. Cook. "Building Collaborative interFaces in the Audicle." NIME 2006. [read / wander]
A. Misra, G. Wang, P. R. Cook. "sndtools: real-time audio DSP and 3D visualization." ICMC 2005. [read / wander]
G. Wang, P. R. Cook, A. Misra. "Designing and Implementing the ChucK Programming Language." ICMC 2005. [read / wander]
G. Wang, A. Misra, P. Davidson, P. R. Cook. "Co-Audicle: A Collaborative Audio Programming Space." ICMC 2005. [read / wander]
G. Wang, A. Misra, A. Kapur, P. R. Cook. "Yeah, ChucK It! => Dynamic, Controllable Interface Mapping." NIME 2005. [read / wander]
M. Hristova, A. Misra, M. Rutter, R. Mercuri. "Identifying and Correcting Java Programming Errors for Introductory Computer Science Students." SIGCSE 2003. [read / wander]