Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer

is a composer, researcher, and software developer

She's currently employed as a staff engineer for Cortico, where she contributes to the backend, infrastructure, and overall software architecture.

She resides in Kingston, New York with her husband. Their German shepherd dog, Bradley, passed away in 2025. She was seven.

Professional interests include:

Distributed systems architecture
Multi-region, multi-Kubernetes-cluster infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines
Code generation

Research interests include:

Machine listening
Digital musicology
Symbolic music composition
Electro-acoustic composition and performance
Multi-media and live-electronics toolkit development

Some recent projects:

supriya: a Python API for the SuperCollider synthesis engine
abjad: a Python API for the LilyPond sheet music typesetting engine
alzabo (in progress!): a distributed concatenative synthesizer affording global-scale audio analysis and resynthesis
invisible cities (iii): ersilia: a work for chamber orchestra, after Italo Calvino's story of the same name
xoxo joséphine: DJ mixes and dance tracks since 2008

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