Message from Chancellor Fox: One of UCSD’s greatest institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars, and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions to society

MUSIC STUDY AND PERFORMANCE

Steven J. Adler, Professor of Theatre and Provost, Warren College
With over 30 years expertise as a professional stage manager, Adler has credits that include Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatres, national tours, and television. His interests range from the forces that shape producing on Broadway to traditional Japanese theatre and British theatre companies, musical theatre and professional theatre in America, and stage management. More…

Diana Deutsch, Professor, Department of Psychology
Diana Deutsch researches the way people perceive and remember musical patterns. Some differences depend on handedness and reflect differences in brain organization; others depend on the languages or dialects to which people are exposed and point to linkages between speech and music. Deutsch focuses on absolute or perfect pitch - why some people possess it and why it is so rare. She also has researched illusions of music and sound perception, including the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the tritone paradox, the glissando illusion, and the phantom words illusion. She is available to comment on the psychology of music, in particular sound and music perception and memory, including brain substrates. More…

Nancy Guy, Associate Professor, Department of Music
Nancy Guy specializes in the study of the musics of Taiwan and China. The research questions most prominent in her scholarly work have involved issues of the meaning and uses of expressive culture in electoral politics, identity formation, and state cultural policy. Most recently she has developed an interest in ecomusicology, or the relationship between music and the environment. She spent the 2002-03 academic year conducting research in Taiwan with the support of a Fulbright Scholar Grant where she developed a new project titled "Flowing Memories: Taiwan's Tamsui River in the Performative Imagination." More…

Michael Hanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Race and Racism; Black Cultural Politics; Race, Representation and the Media; Popular Music; Aural and Visual Culture; Sport; Race, Technology and Identity; Place, Space and Black Diasporic Culture; Afrofuturism; Urban Social Movements; Popular Culture and Expressive Practices; Epistemology; Cultural Theory More…

Miller Puckette, Professor, Department of Music;
Associate Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
Puckette joined the Music department of the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He is currently working on a new real-time software system for live musical and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"), in collaboration with many other artists/researchers/programmers worldwide. Pd is free and runs on Linux, Macintosh, and Windows systems. In 1997 Puckette joined the Global Visual Music project. Since 2004 he has performed with the Convolution Brothers. More…

Roger Reynolds,
UCSD Composer in Residence; Professor, Department of Music
Reynolds won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1989 for a string orchestra work. He has done major projects at the Ircam facility at the Pompidou Center in Paris. He received degrees in physics and music from the University of Michigan and a tenured appointment to the UCSD Department of Music in 1969. He is the founding director of the UCSD Center for Music Experiment and Related Research (CRCA). More…

Steve Schick, Professor, Department of Music
Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Steven Schick is the founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, "red fish blue fish." More…

Shahrokh Yadegari, Asst. Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance
Shahrokh Yadegari (Sound Design Faculty) has recently joined the faculty of the department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.   He has collaborated with such artists as Peter Sellars,  Hossein Omoumi,  Vibeke Sorensen , Keyavash Nourai, Siamak Shajarian, and Yolande Snaith. Yadegari has worked at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique  (IRCAM) and  is one of the founders of Persian Arts Society, and Kereshmeh Records, organizations dedicated to advancement and preservation of Persian traditional music. His music has been played internationally in various venues such as the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt, and Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego. Yadegari's areas of research include the use of interactive computing for live music and theatre performances, spatialization, and applications of non-linear dynamical systems for synthesis. Among his recent projects are the sound design for The Children of Herakles directed by Peter Sellars, the music for Through the Veil choreographed by Yolande Snaith, and the music for The Sanctuary, a video installation by  Vibeke Sorensen .More…

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