Programmer, Composer, Artist
Welcome!
Hello! I'm Adam, a recent graduate from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where I studied Computer Science and Music Composition. In my time on the hill, I worked on various academic projects, ranging from creating a mobile app allowing students to order from the campus restaurant to creating a plugin enabling composers to utilize modern AI generation techniques to write music. Beyond academics, I served as the principal saxophonist for the St. Olaf Band, touring in California and Japan. I also had the honor of performing my own composition with them at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
On this website, explore the different aspects of my world — from my technical projects and musical compositions to artistic creations. Join me in celebrating the fusion of my favorite things - technology, music, and art. I am currently open to opportunities where I can contribute my diverse skill-set, learn, and grow.
Thank you!
FEATURED SOFTWARE PROJECT
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Integrated Music Composition with MuseScore and Neural Networks
Despite modern advances in AI music generation models, there has been little work done to integrate them with modern compositional software. To close this gap, my team and I created a plugin for the leading composition application MuseScore that enables different types of RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) models to generate new measures of music based on a seed melody.
FEATURED COMPOSITION PROJECT
-Adam Pazandak, 2023
Thoughts and Prayers
As a part of the St. Olaf CURI Program Sounding Our Times: Composing a Musical Response to Today's Challenges led by Dr. Timothy Mahr, I composed a piece targeting two important aspects of our society: its cyclic nature and ever increasing division. At what point does gun violence become enough of a problem where both sides can come together and confront the issue? What horrific event has to occur in order to reach that point? We cannot wait for that to happen. The fact that these events are happening more and more frequently is pushing us down a path of ignorance. What was once Columbine becomes breaking news of the day.
Utilizing two soloistic voices, this 11 minute double concerto for the St. Olaf Band and two saxophones takes aim at the cyclic nature of not only gun violence, but the broader array of systematic problems this country faces.