I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in music theory at Northern Arizona University's Kitt School of Music. I teach music theory and aural skills, and my research includes post-1945 experimental musics, music perception/cognition, and analytical approaches to electronic musics. I previously completed a PhD in music theory and MA in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music, as well as an undergraduate degree in music and mathematics at the University of Chicago.
I have several intertwined research projects that are accessible at varying levels of completeness. A more formal list of publications is on my Google Scholar profile.
My dissertation interprets compositions from the last few decades, particularly in spectral and experimental musics, as engaging theories of acoustics and pitch perception. I am actively revising various parts of this for publication. Some sub-projects include:
My masters thesis was on rhythm perception and compositional process Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee, and I've published about a shared rhythm between Schnee and other works. I've also made an interactive JavaScript implementation of my thesis's computational methodology.
I've published two articles on how sketch study helps us hear proportions in Sofia Gubaidulina's music, in Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung and Music Theory Online.
I've also worked a bit on mathematical models of chord spacing. Matt Chiu and I coauthored a paper/talk hybridizing models of chord quality and timbre. I also have a corpus study on string quartets having frequency-constant chord spacing.
Here are two field recordings of interesting overpasses that I've spent a lot of time listening to.
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You can also see photos from my travels across Chicago's 77 Community Areas, mostly taken 5+ years ago when I was an undergrad.