Alumni
Research Interests: sound, voice, American studies, Indigenous and settler colonial studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, political economy, history of science
Research Interests: Composer and pianist whose work spans opera, orchestral and chamber music, improvisation, and collaborations with dance and other arts
Research Interests: Acoustic and electronic composition; the impact of new technologies on musical experiences; algorithmic and interactive music; RTcmix, Max/MSP, iOS development; Lachenmann analysis.
Research Interests: Sinophone, East Asian, Asian American, and postcolonial studies; anthropology of elites; critical university studies; musical knowledge, elite institutions, and imperialism in Hong Kong; sound, voice, and media in global Asia
Research Interests: Georgian vocal music, ideologies of polyphony and European exceptionalism, the Polish physical theatre tradition, media archaeology
Research Interests: popular music, gender studies, applied and activist methodologies, video art, alt-pop production, Latin American studies
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Irish aurality; soundscape aesthetics; film sound; ethnomusicology; sound studies.
Moon Young Ha
myh229@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Music composition/theory; 20th and 21st century music; Danish contemporary music; conducting.
Research Interests: [technology, database, agency, listening, gender, performance, computer-assisted composition, algorithms, multimedia, videoart, live electronics, programming, puredata, spatialization, installation]
Research Interests: Music and nationalism; gender and sexuality; queer theory; voice; African music theory; South Africa; Afrikaans music; women’s work.
Research Interests: sound studies; electronic dance music culture in the MENA region; the history of technology; digital signal processing; sonic labor
Research Interests: Composition; contemporary music; opera and music theater.
Research Interests: Contemporary composition, 20th- and 21st-century music, aesthetics and analysis
Research Interests: Jazz manouche (Gypsy jazz), Romani/"Gypsy" music, heritage, cultural activism, music and language
Jon (Jack) Meadow
Research Interests: Composition; contemporary music; opera and music theater.
Research Interest: Twentieth-century American music; reassessing the American symphony; interdisciplinary connections between musicology and art history.
Research Interests: Mereology, cryptography, and organology (of electronic music); Homology between developments of experimental music and systems theory.
Chris Nickell
Research Interests: musical masculinities, Middle East studies, critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, affect, voice, community organizing, urban studies, gentrification, sanctuary
Research Interests: Philippine oral traditions and shamanism in the homeland and in the diaspora; orality and aurality; voice and audition; indigeneity, gender, and plural ethnomusicologies.
GraceElaine Osborne
Research Interests: Sound and Vibration Healing, Sound Art, Women in Music, Czech Music, Silence, Spirituality, Sonic Violence, Listening
Research Interests: magnetic recording; tape experimentalism; Spiritualist technics; STS; cybernetics & affect; direct animation & Visual Music; orchestration in Janacek & Schubert; live electroacoustic performance
Robin Preiss
Research Interests: Listening to sound (1) in place (2) past the human (3) past the post-human - acoustic ecology - howling - Moby Dick - neocolonialism - decolonization - direct action - geology - icebergs
Catherine Provenzano
catherine.provenzano@gmail.com
Research Interests: Voice and Auto-Tune; Corsican and Mediterranean polyphony; sound studies; media studies; presence; music and philosophy; performance.
Marcus Pyle
Research Interests: Early 20th-century opera; critical theory and continental philosophy; gender and sexuality; orchestration and ontology; intersections of music, the visual arts, and literature; embodiment
Research/Interest: Sonic Technology; Material Culture; Musical Instruments; Museums and Collections; Music and Sound in and of South Asia.
Timucin Sahin
ts1549@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Composition; contemporary music, live computer music performance practice, real-time music collaborations and interactions between jazz and concert avant-gardes at mid-century, micro-tonality, karnatic music, different languages of improvisation.
Research Interests: Ethnomusicology; silence; Marshall Islands musical expression, nuclear culture, anthropologies of violence and religion, popular music and globalization, punk rock and gender.
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Circulation, Coding, Ethnography, Experimental Music, Failure, Format, Technology
Research Interests: Historical musicology; Cold War studies; analytic and continental philosophies of music; relationships between music, aesthetic discourse and politics; East German studies.
Maria Stankova
Research Interests: vocality, improvisation, musical interactivity, timbre
Research Interests: Advocacy and activism; collaborative ethnography; decolonization; health and healing; indigenous studies; medical ethnomusicology; music and incarceration; music and social justice; Pacific studies.
Research Interests: Composition; Music Theory (form and analysis); Narrative studies of absolute music; Opera.
Research Interests: Ancient Chinese Court music; children's reaction to abstract arts and music; theatrical music; music and gender.
Heather Woodson-Gammon
Research Interests: Zoömusicology and interspecific affect, vocality, and listening; Czech bluegrass; music and disability; music, death, and mourning; acoustic ecology.
Research Interests: Transcendence through epic partying; implementing and documenting social and acoustic spaces; music, real estate, and gentrification in New York and other urban centers
Research Interests: 19th-century classical music, Jewish classical music, Disney music, Yiddish pop songs, virtuosity, transcription, prodigies, supernatural creatures, topic theory, public music theory, pedagogy