Scott Nelson is an Intermedia Composer, sound artist, and Educator whose work explores immersive sound, audience participation, and the expressive possibilities of emerging media. His doctoral research investigated how technologies such as binaural audio, virtual-reality spatialization, wave-field synthesis, and distributed smartphone-speaker networks can be used to create sound art experiences that elicit Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).

Scott’s creative work often blends experimental audio, playful interaction, and unexpectedly intimate subject matter. In Chewkeeper, for example, audience members use their phones to “feed” virtual zoo animals while gentle recordings of giraffes, rhinos, bears, tigers, cheetahs, opossums, pygmy hippos, macaws, siamangs, nyala, nutria, and tapirs softly fill the room beneath a bed of rainy ambience.

Now teaching music and recording technology at Baton Rouge Community College, Scott is especially interested in helping students build practical creative skills while discovering their own relationships to sound, technology, and art. Outside the studio and classroom, he lives in an animal-loving household with his zookeeping wonder-wife Alicia, their two chihuahuas, Nikolai and Elvira, and their cats, Ozzy and Maeve.