Sonic Self-Portrait    Jazz snapshot Photo by Amelia Williams.

Roger B. Dannenberg

Emeritus Professor of
  Computer Science, Art & Music
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: Maybe after the pandemic.
  I'm working at home now.
Fax: 412-268-5576
Email: rbd at cs.cmu.edu
Assistant: Christina Contreras

For More Information

• Blog
• Bibliography
• Video Links
• Compositions and performances
• Nyquist Info, Nyquist Manual
• Music software
• CMU School of Computer Science
• ICMA Home
• Electronic Music Foundation
• Pittsburgh Jazz Network
• Bands, etc.:
  • Swingtet 8
• Links to old information: courses, projects, etc.
• Notes, Docs, etc.
• Quotes from Richard
• Franklin Roosevelt, 1938:
  “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” (quote from George Monbiot)
• Sarah Chadwick, high school sophomore:
  “We should change the names of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ because they are so easy to buy.” (Twitter)
• Donald J. Trump:
  “Impeach the Pres.” (Twitter, 11:32AM 15Oct19)
• Trump Death Clock

News

• Nov 24 “SoundBells” in MEVArt Festival, Alfons Roig auditorium, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) at 6:30pm (Spain), 12:30pm EST streaming here. (more info here) Interactive audio and video combining live on-stage and remote network performance.
• Dec 1 Theatrical production of Felicità, music by Jorge Sastre and Roger Dannenberg, presented by Tec de Monterrey, Mexico.

• Old "news"...

Courses Taught

• 15-104 Principles of Computing for Creative Practice (prev: fall 2018)
• 15-322 Introduction to Computer Music (with Jesse Stiles, prev: fall 2018, next: fall 2019)
• 15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing (prev: spring 2019)
• 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

• Here’s a summary of things I’m working on or would like to be working on.
• Computer Music at CMU SCS
• Soundcool