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Faculty
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Roger B. Dannenberg,
Professor of Computer Science, Art, and Music
is well known for his computer music research, including the Audacity
Audio Editor, programming language design, and real-time interactive
systems. In the language area, his chief contribution is the use of
functional programming concepts to describe real-time behavior, an
approach that forms the foundation for Nyquist, a widely used sound
synthesis language. His pioneering work in computer accompaniment led
to three patents and the SmartMusic system now used by over one hundred
thousand music students. He also played a central role in the
development of the Piano Tutor, an intelligent, interactive, automated
multimedia tutor that enables a student to obtain first-year piano
proficiency in less than 20 hours. As a composer, Dannenberg’s
compositions have been performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble,
the Pittsburgh Symphony, and many festivals. As a trumpet player, he
has collaborated with musicians including Anthony Braxton, Eric Kloss,
and Roger Humphries, and performed in concert halls ranging from the
historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to the Espace de Projection at IRCAM.
Dannenberg is active in performing jazz, classical, and new works.
Dannenberg is the only person on this page to have performed on MTV.
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Richard Randall is
Assistant Professor of Music Theory at
Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Music Cognition
Lab at CMU. His research focuses on cognitive neuroscience of music,
music expectation, mathematical modeling,
meta-theory, and traditional analytic methodologies. He is a
co-director of Listening Spaces, an interdisciplinary project
supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts
in Society. He holds a faculty appointment with the Center for
the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), is a Fellow at the
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and is a researcher with the
University of Pittsburgh’s Brain Mapping Center and CMU’s
Scientific Imaging and Brain Research Center (SIBR). Randall’s
research is supported by a Berkman Faculty Research Award, a
Rothberg Award in Human Brain Imaging, a CAS Media Initiative
Grant, and a MEG Research Seed Fund Grant.
Randall received his Ph.D. in Music Theory from The Eastman School of
Music (University of Rochester) in 2006. He has taught at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Tufts University, and was a
Fellow at the Mannes Institute’s 2009 Music and the Mind Program. He
has presented his research at the International Conference on Music
Perception and Cognition, International Conference on Biomagnetism,
Society for Music Perception and Cognition, the Society for Music
Theory, and numerous regional conferences. He is the only person on
this page to have dived off a stage.
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Riccardo Schulz, Associate
Teaching Professor of Music, is founder and president of Pittsburgh
Digital Recording & Editing Company, and a specialist in recording,
editing, and mastering classical music. Schulz has recorded and/or
produced more than a hundred compact discs on a variety of record
labels, including Élan, New Albion, Mode Records, Ocean Records,
Norvard, and New World Records. He has also recorded and/or mastered
CDs of world music, jazz, alternative rock groups, and selected hip-hop
artists. A few of the groups and individuals he has collaborated with
include Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Andrés Cárdenes and Luz
Manríquez; conductors Denis Colwell and the River City Brass
Band, and Keith Lockhart and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Schulz
has master’s degrees in mathematics from Duquesne University and
musicology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is former program
annotator for the Y-Music Series, and former music critic for WQED-FM’s
Sunday Arts Magazine. Schulz can entertain you with stories from his
association with Iannis Xenakis.
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Richard M. Stern, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is also a member of the Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Department, and Biomedical Engineering Department. His research has focused on spoken language systems, where he is particularly concerned with the development of techniques that enable automatic speech recognition systems to become more robust with respect to changes in environment and acoustical ambience. In addition to his work in speech recognition, Dr. Stern remains actively involved in auditory perception, where he is best known for theoretical work in binaural hearing. Dr. Stern was also a former music major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more than thirty years he has presented solo and chamber music recitals on historical instruments as a founding member of the 415 Players Baroque Ensemble, and in appearances as a guest artist with Chatham Baroque. He has appeared with School of Music faculty members and other local musicians with the Pittsburgh Bach Choir, the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Project, the Ionian Chamber Players, the Renaissance City Winds, and other ensembles, and on the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Community Concert Series, Shadyside Concerts, Music in a Great Space, and other recital series. Stern is the only person on this page to have attended Woodstock.
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Thomas M. Sullivan, Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is interested in the areas of signal processing for audio and music systems and the creation of new musical instruments. He teaches courses in the areas of electronic circuits, signal processing, and electro-acoustics and is active in course development for audio engineering and in promoting audio engineering through his many students at Carnegie Mellon. He also oversees independent student research projects in these areas. Sullivan has taught sound recording in the Dept. of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University and co-teaches sound recording here at Carnegie Mellon during the summer session. An amateur rock and jazz guitarist, Sullivan is quite interested in gadgetry for the electric guitar, most notably hexaphonic processing of the instrument. Sullivan received his masters degree from MIT with the (then) Music and Cognition group in the MIT Media Lab and his PhD from the ECE Dept. here at Carnegie Mellon (with Prof. Stern as his thesis advisor). He has also worked with sound and light for a variety of art sculptures and installations.
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