Software Media Systems | Spatial Audio | Music | Software architecture
Dr. Cabrera's work in interactive distributed computing is directed towards tackling the diverse complex issues around computational workflows in scientific research and the arts.
This interdisciplinary approach, merging human-computer interaction, literate programming, and multimedia display, connects interactive data computation and Virtual Reality.
The Allosphere
UCSB Henley Gate
The Allosphere bridge
Under the Allosphere
Immersive projection in the Allosphere
Queen's University Belfast, UK
The Sonic Lab @ SARC
Dr. Cabrera is the CREATE (Center for Research in Electronic Arts and Technology) Research Director and adjunct faculty in the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program at UC Santa Barbara and received his PhD at Queen's University Belfast, UK under the direction of Dr. Gary Kendall, a pioneer of spatial audio digital signal processing.
In his role as CREATE Research Director he leads interactive distributed computation research and development at the Allosphere Research Facility.
The Allosphere, a unique instrument for interactive real-time scientific visualization has been used in scientific collaborations across scales from the atomic, through the nano to the biological.
Dr. Cabrera using glove control in the Allosphere
TEM and Atom Probe Microscope Data in the Allosphere
Exploring materials simulation datasets
Interfaces for interactive control in the Allosphere
Dr. Cabrera worked for more than six years as a professional sound designer and audio engineer and has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level in three countries.
His musical and multimedia work has included diverse collaborations and media with an emphasis on interactivity and user involvement. He has extensive experience in open source collaboration and community development.
With over 20 years of research experience in audio and digital signal processing, he was a long time contributor to the Csound language and developed the widely-distributed Csound development environment CsoundQt.
With Dr. Joseph Tilbian, he developed the Stride programming language aimed at simplifying development for interactive embedded and heterogenous systems.