Sonic Self-Portrait    Jazz snapshot Photo by Amelia Williams.

Roger B. Dannenberg

Professor of Computer Science, Art, and Music
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: 7003 GHC, 412-268-3827
Fax: 412-268-5576
Email: rbd at cs.cmu.edu
Assistant: Christina Contreras

For More Information

• Bibliography
• Video Links
• Compositions and performances
• Nyquist Info, Nyquist Manual
• Music software
• PortMusic
• CMU School of Computer Science
• ICMA Home
• Electronic Music Foundation
• Pittsburgh Jazz Network
• Bands, etc.:
  • Capgun Quartet
  • Roger Humphries Big Band
  • Swingtet 8
• Links to old information: courses, projects, etc.
• Notes, Docs, etc.
• Quotes from Richard
• Quotes from Donald:
  “The electoral college is a disaster...”,
      Twitter, 6 Nov 2012
  “The Electoral College is actually genius...”,
      Twitter, 15 Nov 2016

News

• Oct 15, 2016 The Edgewood Symphony “An American Dream”: Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question and John Williams, Five Sacred Trees and The Cowboys Overture, Walter Morales, conducting.
• Oct 17, 2016 Soundcool has been awarded by SIMO Education 2016 within Best programming and robotics experience modality!
• Dec 1, 2016 Kamraton performs "Separation Logic" for flute and computer, by Roger Dannenberg. Sarah Steranka, flute. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Lawrenceville. 7:30PM.
• Dec 3, 2016 The Edgewood Symphony “American Holiday”: Bach, Magnificat and music by Hovhaness, Chadwick, Ellington, and Strayhorn; Walter Morales, conducting.
• Dec 16, 2016 Valencia, Spain. World premiere of La Mare dels Peixos, a one-act opera co-composed with Jorge Sastre.
• Old "news"...

Courses Taught

• 15-322 Introduction to Computer Music (fall 2016, with Jesse Stiles)
• 15-104 Principles of Computing for Creative Practice (fall 2016)
• 15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing (last: spring 2016, next: spring 2017)
• 15-110 Principles of Computing (last taught by me fall 2013)
• 15-410 Operating System Design and Implementation (last taught by me fall 2012)
• 15-441 Computer Networks (last taught by me fall 2011)
• 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems (last taught by me fall 2009)

Research Interests

• Computer Music: sound synthesis, interactive performance systems, music representation, music understanding.
• Real-Time and Multimedia Systems: especially the problems of constructing reliable, modular, complex interactive systems.
• Computer-Based Instruction: using Instructional Design concepts and Multimedia for practical, large curriculum, effective instruction systems.
• Research description from the CMU CSD Faculty Research Guide

Projects

• Computer Music
• Software Developer Certification