Presentations and Publications (2025)
2025 | Towards Neurodiverse Sensemaking: Pluralizing Agency in Wearable Music and Participatory Workshopping | NIME ‘25
2025 | Diffractive Constellations: Activating Human-Machine Co-Creation in Violin Performance through Embedded Modular Coding | Arts Track, ACM Creativity & Cognition ‘25, Virtual / London
2025 | Coding Modular with Max/Gen: A Eurorack System for Violin Improvisation | The 50th Anniversary of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2025), Boston MA
2025 | Modular System for Acoustic Violin and Live Improvisation | Listening Space Performance, Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Bloomington
Past Events, Awards, Publications
2024 | Inaugural Teaching Innovation Award (Peer-Selected) | School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University
2024 | $296,239 National Science Foundation AISL EAGER Award | PI | Circuit Bending and Semiconductor Workforce Development
2024 | Matter Squared LLC Awarded Demo Day Grant by Venture Devils ASU
2024 | Les Paul Foundation Grant Award | “Inventing Possibilities with Musical Circuits” | Co-PI
2024 | Matter Squared LLC, Thorn’s Ed Tech Startup, Awarded $30,000 by ASU Fulton Pitch Competition
2024 | KJZZ / NPR Interview on Immersive Violin
2023 | Featured in Electronic Sound Magazine, Issue 100.
2023 | Main Feature in ASU Thrive Magazine, “Feeling the Sound”
2023 | KJZZ / NPR Interview on Wearable Music (Jan 31, 2023)
2023 | Finalist, Guthman Competition @ Georgia Tech
2022 | Speaker @ MetaWare Seminar Series, ASU + MIT + NTU
2022 | $10,000 Herberger Institute Research-Building Investment Award, “Remix and Reprogram the Violin with Active Shoulder Rests (ASRs)”
2022 | S. Thorn et al., “Co-Design of Wearable Music Curriculum for Neurodiverse Computational Thinking” IEEE RESPECT 2022
2022 | S. Thorn & B. Lahey, “Decolonizing the Violin with Active Shoulder Rests (ASRs)” NIME 2022
2022 | “Collectively Playable Wearable Music: Practice-situated approaches to participatory relational inquiry” Wearable Technologies | Cambridge University Press
2021 | $1 Million National Science Foundation CS4ALL, Co-PI, Musical Wearables and Neurodiversity
2021 | Best Poster Award @ ACM Audio Mostly 2021, Telematic Wearable Music
2021 | “Flows of Inhomogeneous Matter: Improvising an augmented violin” Organised Sound | Cambridge University Press
