Mark Santolucito ’13, a computer science and music double major while at Amherst, now works as an assistant professor at Barnard exploring the intersection of program synthesis and music through the field of computer music. With his work primarily rooted in computer science, music provides a lens through which he troubleshoots and explores his ideas.
In this course students will study how the invention of musical notation affected the development of music, turning an oral tradition of chant into a written tradition of complex polyphonic textures unimaginable without the help of notation.
In this course, we will examine rhythmic traditions within their historical, social, and cultural contexts, develop ways of understanding rhythms across cultures and traditions, and learn how to hear and perform rhythms of various traditions.
This seminar considers how key moments in the evolution of music technology have reflected historical, social, cultural, and political contexts.