Dr Nicole Carroll

Biography

Nicole Carroll is a composer, performer, sound designer, and builder working with audio, video, and tangible objects. Her work spans installation, improvisation, and fixed media performance, across noise, soundscape, and acousmatic genres. She is active as a sound designer and composer in theatre, performs electronic music under the alias “n0izmkr,” and builds custom synthesizers, controllers, and performance sensor systems. Her research focuses on generative systems that merge analog and digital technologies to create musical performance systems from non-musical sources. Additional research areas include acoustic ecology, soft circuits and wearable sensors, augmented acoustic instruments, AV synthesis on mobile devices and embedded systems, and western esotericism, which informs her compositional and performance processes.

Nicole’s works have been performed internationally in the USA, Mexico, Wales, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, and China, including at SEAMUS, ICMC, TEI, and NIME conferences. Nicole holds an M.M. and B.M. in Composition from Bowling Green State University and Arkansas State University, respectively. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia from Brown University in Providence, RI, USA and is currently Sr. Lecturer in Music at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. nicolecarrollmusic.com