Dr Jeremy J Ham (PhD- RMIT SIAL) is an Australian architect, musician and musico-spatial creative practitioner with creative work operating at the intersection of the musical and spatial domains. Through ongoing design research and collaboration, Jeremy's creative and research practice explores the music-spatial continuum through digital drumscapes, musico-spatial spatialisation of drumming as Liquid Polyrhythm and as Synaespatia in Virtual and augmented Reality.

Dr Jeremy J Ham is an Australian artist, architect, and design researcher whose practice sits at the intersection of music, data, and spatial form.

For over a decade, Ham has developed a body of work built on a single, generative question: what does music look like when rendered in three-dimensional space? His answer — arrived at through a PhD at RMIT University's Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and ongoing collaboration with the High Performance Computing Laboratory at the University of Stuttgart — is a practice of unusual breadth and depth. It encompasses large-format parametric artworks, live performative installations in networked virtual reality, architectural design, and a sustained programme of international research publication.

The foundation of the work is data. Ham records his own improvised drumming as MIDI — capturing the timing, velocity, and duration of every note struck — then translates that data through Rhino 3D Grasshopper parametric design software into complex three-dimensional spatial forms. The works that result — the Liquid Polyrhythm, Nebulae, Vortex, and Liquid Seascape series among them — are not illustrations of music, or visualisations in any conventional sense. They are parametric consequences of specific performances: the unique, unrepeatable spatial signature of how a musician played on a particular day.

The live performance work, Synaespatia, extends this into real time. Drumming, synthesisers, and theremin drive a navigable three-dimensional virtual environment, rendered through the COVISE/OpenCOVER framework developed at HLRS Stuttgart, and streamed across networked locations to audiences anywhere in the world. The work has been performed at Ars Electronica, the International Computer Music Conference, the IEEE Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, and in networked collaboration between Australia and Germany.

Ham's works are held in private collections and exhibited in galleries in Australia. He is based on the Surf Coast of Victoria, Australia.

Selected Performances & Installations

Nov 2025 — Most Wanted: Music, Berlin (International music technology festival)
Oct 2024 — Australian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne
Sep 2024 — IEEE Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, Erlangen, Germany (Peer-reviewed international symposium)
Jun 2022 — Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa, Wellington (Invited exhibitor & performer, one of the world's leading media art festivals)
May 2021 — Klingt Gut Sonic Arts Symposium, Hamburg
Sep 2020 — eCAADe Conference, Berlin (Networked VR performance)

Solo & Group Exhibitions

Feb 2025 — Solo Exhibition, Sol Gallery, Melbourne
Nov 2023 — Group Exhibition, Hoop Gallery, Torquay
Oct 2023 — Solo Exhibition, Red Gallery, Melbourne
Apr 2023 — Solo Exhibition, Hoop Gallery, Torquay