Nathan Swedlow
Composer · Arranger · Bassist · Media Artist · Neuroscientist · Creative Technologist · Sound Engineer
ncswedlow@gmail.com
Website under construction.
Upcoming Performances
- Premiere of Color of a Shadow — Glenview Classical Series
Performed by Bridge Collective (oboe, B♭ clarinet, violin, viola, double bass)
- Maria BC — Live Performance Support (bass, keys, synthesizers)
Four Star Theater (San Francisco) — March 12
Zebulon (Los Angeles) — March 15
- Rowan Katz — Live Performance Support (bass)
Ivy Room (Albany, CA) — February 21
Current Selected Projects
- Rowan Katz — Arranging & Production (upcoming record)
Strings, winds, guitar, and bass
- Nathan Swedlow — Writing, Arranging & Production (In a Matter of Time, upcoming record)
- Brain–Computer Interface Wearable Sculpture — Supporting Shankar Saanthakumar’s Cove Park Residency (2026)
Selected Compositions
(Complete list of works in progress)
2014
- Locutus — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
2018
- You Can’t Be Flammable If You’re Innocent — piano, saxophone, synthesizers
- For All the Geminis — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
2023
- Please Return to Your Seats — string quartet
- Can You Sleep? — piano, synthesizers
- Amorphosis — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
- Cinematic for the Sake of It — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
- Circle Back Around — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
- Open to Whatever Comes Next — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
- When All That’s Left Is Echo — saxophone, piano, bass, drums
2024
- There You Are — alto saxophone, string orchestra, piano, theremin, synthesizers, drums, percussion
- Dancing with a Ghost (SATB)
- Dancing with a Ghost (Orchestra)
2025
- In a Matter of Time — countertenor, 2 clarinets, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
2026
- Color of a Shadow — oboe, B♭ clarinet, violin, viola, double bass
Film Scoring — Selected Recent Works
- Windchimes (2024) — premiered at the American Film Institute 2024 Cinematography Showcase
- I Am a Human Being (2024) — submission to the World Soundtrack Awards 2025 Composition Contest
Multimedia Work
- Encode Outer (2017) — multimedia work, premiered at Al-Tiba9 Gallery, Barcelona
Arranging & Production
- Katsy Pline — Incandescent Fire (2023)
- Katsy Pline — Rippers (awaiting release)
- Rowan Katz — upcoming album of songs (awaiting release)
- Nathan Swedlow — In a Matter of Time (upcoming album of songs; awaiting release)
Selected Scientific Publications
- Predicting Subjective Audiovisual Quality of Experience with Oculomotor Responses and Perceptual Video Quality — QoMEX, 2024
- Benefits of Immersive Spatial Audio on Athlete Reaction Times in E-Sports — EHPHCI, 2021
- Stereo Speech Enhancement Using Custom Mid-Side Signals and Monaural Processing — AES Convention, 2023
- Deepspace: Dynamic Spatial and Source Cue-Based Source Separation for Dialog Enhancement — ICASSP, 2023
- Accent Conversion with Articulatory Representations — INTERSPEECH, 2024
- Methodologies for Assessment of Speech and Audio for Optimized Quality of Experience — ICA, 2019
- Decreasing GABA Function Within the Medial Prefrontal Cortex or Basolateral Amygdala Decreases Sociability — Journal of Neuroscience, 2016
Select Patents / IP Filings
- Electrooculogram Measurement and Eye-Tracking — 2026
- Screen Interaction Using EOG Coordinates — 2025
- Incorporating Jitter into Spatial Audio Objects — 2025
- Real-Time Estimation of User Engagement Level and Other Factors Using Sensors — 2024
- Creating Audio-Visual Objects Through Multimodal Analysis — 2025