Biography

• PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Electronic Arts Program
• MPS, New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program
• BA, Prescott College, Fine Arts

Dr. Michelle Temple is an interdisciplinary performer/composer, instrument maker, electronics hardware designer, scholar and educator inspired by research in psychoacoustics and disability studies based in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of the 2021 Malcom S. Morse research enhancement award, given by the Deep Listening Institute, for continuing the work and research of composer Pauline Oliveros. Temple’s audio and visual works reflect a passion for music technology as a tool to investigate social and political hierarchies. Temple is an advocate for the Deaf community and inclusivity within the disciplines of music technology, sound studies, experimental music and art. 

Temple’s audio/visual work has been recognized internationally (IMPAKT festival, Netherlands 2019). Her research has been supported by RPI’s Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), architectural acoustic department, and EMPAC/IRCAM’s spatial audio seminars. Her research has been recognized through NYU’s visiting scholar program in hardware design and production in Shenzhen, AES, and ISATMA conferences. The audio hardware Temple has developed specializes in phased arrays and ultrasonics, microelectronics, instrument building, and assistive technologies. Temple has performed electroacoustic spatialized works at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC, NYCEMF and Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). Temple has been a professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program, Columbia University, and has been engaged in interdisciplinary, community-based instrument and music making through electronics, hacking, DIY and disability workshops through maker/community spaces, guest teaching, and personal recording studios/art spaces. 

Learn more about Temple on her website.