Jack Kilgore
Works
Affection Emission Control 2 new live
Contact CV

PRIMARY EXPERIENCE

Lunacy Audio
2023 - 2026

Creative DSP Engineer and Programmer

  • Creative real-time DSP engineer for designing and implementing professional-grade audio effects. Specialties include but are not limited to: reverb, distortion, resonators, filter banks, granulators, and pitch shifters. See: https://lunacy.audio/products/beam/.
  • Lead designer of filter-bank resonator: Bismuth in collaboration with Virtual Riot.
  • Lead designer of chorus effect: Haze.
  • Co-lead designer of multi-tap delay: Taps in collaboration with Benn Jordan.
  • Co-lead designer of multi-distortion effect: Volt.
  • Co-lead designer of buffer shuffler effect: Time.
  • Real-time programming in C++.
  • Continuous integration pipeline for building and codesigning Windows and Mac installers.
  • General software engineering: architecture-design, optimization, git/github, etc.
Emission Control 2
2019 - 2023

Open Source Granular Synthesizer with Curtis Roads and Rodney DuPlessis

Affection
2026

Self-Released Album

A Special Mystic Joy
2025 - Present

Music Software in Collaboration with Trevor Treglia

  • Trevor Treglia composed a piece titled “A Special Mystic Joy” that employs frequency-dependent loopers . I was tasked with designing a piece of software for enabling the performance of the composition in real-time.

EDUCATION

University of California: Santa Barbara
2021 - 2023

Department of Media Arts and Technology
Masters of Science

University of California: Santa Barbara
2017 - 2021

Department of Computer Science
Bachelors of Science
UCSB Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research (Engineering)

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS AND TOOLS

  • Cross-platform, real-time programming and signal processing
  • Software engineering and architecture for maintaining professional-grade systems
  • Git + Github power user
  • Low-level knowledge on how to make computers run as fast as possible (profiler tooling, cache behavior, memory management, approximations, etc)
  • Building cross-platform installers and continuous integration
  • Deep listening and professional audio mixing
  • Live performance and composition of computer music
  • Programming languages: C++, Python, Javascript
  • High level applications: Ableton, Reaper, Adobe products, Davinci Resolve
  • Defensive and careful use of LLM tooling

SECONDARY EXPERIENCE

UCSB Computer Science TA
2021 - 2023
  • Formal Languages and Automata
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Computer Graphics
  • Human Computer Interaction
Assistant Engineer at KCSB
2018 - 2019
  • Soldering and fixing audio equipment.
  • Building amplifier systems for live concerts.
  • Live sound mixing and coordination of live events.
Eagle Scout
2016

Award

  • Planned and coordinated a community service event for a local community center. Landscaped and cleaned up the lawn for the community events (AA meetings, daycare,etc.)
  • Throughout my time as scout, I led multiple groups of people in wilderness training.
new
2026 - Present

Music

  • Music composition series studying the gap between computer and chamber music.
Dusk
2019

Music

  • Music composition for electronics and field recordings performed at the International Computer Music Conference 2019 and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.
20.8(3) Microseconds
2019 - Present

Music

  • Collaborative music project with Alex Meinhof
  • I’m Sorry About Last Night
  • The composition, “By the Broken Barn”, was accepted to the International Computer Music Conference 2020 in Santiago, Chile.
Crest
2022 - Present

Music

  • A series of free music events in the Angeles Crest National Forest focusing on club music and real time deconstruction of club music.
  • Crest 1
  • Crest 2
  • Crest 3
SBCAST Showcasing
2022 - 2023
Frame Feedback with P5.js
2021