Artist Page Ill Poetic

Timothy Gmeiner is a San Diego, California-based interdisciplinary artist and music producer. He has toured internationally under the name "Ill Poetic" and garnered public acclaim for his releases from artists and publications such as Portishead, Rolling Stone, XXL and Pitchfork. His most recent musical release, “As Serious As Your Life”, builds upon a catalog stretching nearly 20 years, and reflects explorations of hip-hop, jazz, fusion, 70s electronic music and vintage film scores.

As a producer, he has collaborated with or produced under such acts such acts as King Britt, Chris Orrick, Illogic, Slum Village, Atmosphere, Steph Richards and Blitz Bazawule. Through his company SoundRzn Design, he has provided audio and visual services for artists, universities and companies of various industries including the San Diego Symphony, Mello Music Group, producer RJD2, OWN, and HBO.

As an educator, he has taught workshops internationally at various universities, community centers and music festivals on topics of artist entrepreneurship and developed them into an active curriculum at San Diego City College where he currently teaches.

In 2022, Gmeiner was hired as Assistant Director at the Qualcomm Institute's Audio Spatialization Lab, leading to his enrollment in UC-San Diego’s Computer Music PhD program where he focuses on audiovisual relationships in virtual and physical spaces. Current projects and collaborations focus on spatialized and interactive compositions in virtual reality, audiovisual live performance and large-scale real-time reactive installations. His most recent work, “Pigments of Imagination”, is an interactive virtual reality composition that was presented at UC-San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute and won an award for best demo presentation at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2023

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