Welcome! Below you will find a listing of my work in music. Hover over titles for links.
About me: I have a BM in Commercial Arranging from Berklee, where I also minored in saxophone as a student of Bill Pierce. Following additional studies at the Manhattan School of Music (composition) and the Dick Grove School of Music (Composing and Arranging Program), I earned a PhD in Composition at UC Berkeley, studying primarily with Olly Wilson and Jorge Liderman. Since then, I've led a hybrid musical life as a composer, music theorist, and—more recently—alto player. I'm currently Professor of music at American University in Washington, DC.
About me: I have a BM in Commercial Arranging from Berklee, where I also minored in saxophone as a student of Bill Pierce. Following additional studies at the Manhattan School of Music (composition) and the Dick Grove School of Music (Composing and Arranging Program), I earned a PhD in Composition at UC Berkeley, studying primarily with Olly Wilson and Jorge Liderman. Since then, I've led a hybrid musical life as a composer, music theorist, and—more recently—alto player. I'm currently Professor of music at American University in Washington, DC.
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Book
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Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing
Oxford University Press (2024) |
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Albums
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delight/delirium
works for chamber music (New Focus Recordings) intuitivo blended improvisations (Innova Recordings) |
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More music
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Book chapters
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Loco Vocable: Semantic Satiation in 'Aria Agraria' by Les Luthiers
In "Reframing Music Theory" (OUP, forthcoming), ed. J. Peterson & Kim Loeffert Representing and Experiencing Rhythm in Drumming from Santiago de Cuba In "Trends in World Music Analysis" (Routledge 2022), ed. L. Shuster, S. Mukherji, N. Dinnerstein co-authored with Andrew McGraw Modern Drum Solos Over Ostinatos In "Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm" (OUP 2019), ed. C. Hasty, R. Wolf, & S. Blum Musical Structure: Time and Rhythm In "Routledge Companion to Music Cognition" (2017), ed. R. Ashley & R. Timmers co-authored with Peter Martens |
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Conference papers
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On the Fluidity of Afro-Cuban Meter
Society for Music Theory (Columbus 2019) Polymetric Phrasing in Rumba's Quinto Society for Music Theory (Vancouver 2016) Improvisations of a Quinto Player: Tone, Time, and Motive in Rumba's Lead Drum Analytical Approaches to World Music (NYC 2016) co-authored with Andy McGraw Deep Syncopation in Hindustani Tabla Drumming Analytical Approaches to World Music (London 2014) Disentangling the Rubato-Groove Continuum Society for Music Theory (New Orleans 2012) Dynamic Exploration of Recording Sessions Between Jazz Musicians Over Time ASEE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (Amsterdam 2012) co-authored with Darya Filippova, Carl Kingsford, and Michael Fitzgerald Metrical Properites of Fusion Drum Solos Society for Music Theory (Minneapolis 2011) Crossmodal Analogues of Tempo Rubato Society for Music Perception and Cognition (Rochester 2011) Expressive Timing Via Metric Hybrids International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Seattle 2010) Speech Rhythms and Metric Frames Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (New Haven 2009) Bend It Like Bubber: Miley's Time in 'Creole Love Call' Society for Music Theory (Baltimore 2007) Towards a Theory of Tempo Modulation International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Evanston 2004) Spectrographic and Calligraphic Cues in the Identification of Jazz Saxophonists European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (Hanover 2003) |
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Map of Jazz Musicians
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An interactive online network of collaborations in recorded jazz
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Startup Grant |
