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David Rafferty is an Associate  Professor of Practice in Music Technology at the American University in Cairo. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a B.A. in philosophy (2000). In 2009-2010, he studied at the Royal College of Music (London, England) where he graduated and received the special 'Cobbett and Hurlestone' prize for composition. He completed a Doctor of Music at McGill University (2013 - 2018) where he received a graduate excellence fellowship. Over the years, David has worked in many mediums of composition. In 2018, his doctoral thesis ‘structured cell’ included 10 performers, 22.2 speaker dome surrounding the musicians performed with Maxmsp and live electronics, in collaboration with sound recording in a 3D audio recording session. He has studied composition with Jonathan Cole(RCM) and Brian Cherney(McGill) and production strategies with George Massenburg(McGill).  He has presented his thesis ‘structured cell’ at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018. He is a member of Interdisciplinary Art Group Oneness. David's interest in music are broad, from film to real-time electronics, and is presently focused on the relationship between technology and music practices. He has had performances in Korea, England, Poland, Egypt, Germany and Canada, in acoustic and digital media. He spends his time going between South Korea and Egypt.