Alex Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor and Chair of the Harvard University Department of Music. As a music theorist, Rehding is interested in the question of how music has been understood at different times in history. This has taken his … Continued
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Mara Mills is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, working at the intersection of disability studies and media studies. She is currently completing a book (On the Phone: Deafness and Communication Engineering) on the … Continued
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Josh McDermott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, studying how people hear. His Laboratory for Computational Audition investigates all things auditory, operating at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and engineering. The lab’s … Continued
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Alvin Lucier is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University, where he has taught since 1970. Lucier has pioneered many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers’ physical gestures, the use of … Continued
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Brian Kane holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Philosophy, 1996; Ph.D. in Music, 2006). Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University (2006-2008). Kane, born in … Continued
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Stefan Helmreich received his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University and prior to coming to MIT held fellowships at Cornell, Rutgers and NYU. His research examines the works and lives of biologists thinking through the limits of “life” as a … Continued
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