Recent Events, Publications, Awards:
2024 | Matter Squared LLC Awarded Demo Day Grant by Venture Devils ASU
2024 | Les Paul Foundation Grant Award | “InventingPossibilities with Musical Circuits” | Co-PI
2024 | Matter Squared LLC, Thorn’s Ed Tech Startup, Awarded $30,000 by ASU Fulton Pitch Competition
2024 | KJZZ / NPR Interview on Immersive Violin
2023 | Featured in Electronic Sound Magazine, Issue 100.
2023 | Main Feature in ASU Thrive Magazine, “Feeling the Sound”
2023 | KJZZ / NPR Interview on Wearable Music (Jan 31, 2023)
2023 | Finalist, Guthman Competition @ Georgia Tech
2022 | Speaker @ MetaWare Seminar Series, ASU + MIT + NTU
2022 | $10,000 Herberger Institute Research-Building Investment Award, “Remix and Reprogram the Violin with Active Shoulder Rests (ASRs)”
2022 | S. Thorn & B. Lahey, “Decolonizing the Violin with Active Shoulder Rests (ASRs)” NIME 2022
2021 | $1 Million National Science Foundation CS4ALL, Co-PI, Musical Wearables and Neurodiversity
2021 | Best Poster Award @ ACM Audio Mostly 2021, Telematic Wearable Music