Composition, experimental sound and computational research brought together as one creative practice — from concert works and spatial audio to AI, analysis–resynthesis and instrument-building in software.
Current work sits between creative practice and research: building interpretable sound tools, composing with computational systems, and studying how musical structure is perceived and transformed.
An offline analysis–resynthesis toolkit for experimental composition. The project brings together hundreds of tools across 13 categories, spanning DSP, spatial sound, generative systems, machine learning and hybrid Praat–Python workflows.
Paper and software demonstration presenting Praat AudioTools as an interpretable environment in which analysis objects become direct compositional controls for sound transformation.
Published online by Cambridge University Press on 6 April 2026. A research account of the toolkit as an offline sound laboratory connecting phonetic analysis, experimental DSP and compositional practice.
An interactive algorithmic art installation built around a prediction machine that is designed to fail productively — turning computational uncertainty into compositional material.
Praat began as a phonetics environment. Praat AudioTools extends it into an experimental sound laboratory: analysis becomes control data; measurements become compositional structures; and offline transformation becomes a space for repeatable sonic experimentation.
Explore the platform →Recent compositions and systems where notation, electronics, computation and instrumental performance act as parts of the same compositional architecture.
Technology is not only a production tool. It can become musical material — a structure that shapes what can be heard, measured, transformed and composed.
Shai Cohen is a composer, sound artist and music-technology researcher. He is Head of the Department of Music and Director of the Music and Technology Program at Bar-Ilan University.
His work spans experimental and electroacoustic composition, computational sound analysis and resynthesis, artificial intelligence, spatial audio, interactive systems and new media.
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