Core Team
Principal Investigator
Dr Leila Adu-Gilmore
Composer-theorist Leila Adu-Gilmore’s compositions have been played at The Kennedy Center and Ojai Festival; singing and performing globally with over twenty releases including five solo albums. A Ghanaian New-Zealander born in London, Dr Adu-Gilmore is passionate about black and indigenous music, decolonization and social change. She has been published in Critical Studies in Improvisation journal and the Music Technology Cookbook (Oxford University Press), and has presented at Zhejiang Conservatory, Huddersfield University, and EHESS & IRCAM. Dr Adu-Gilmore received her BMus from Victoria University, NZ; Phd from Princeton University, and is an Assistant Professor in New York University’s music technology program. Composer Site: http://www.leilaadu.com/ & NYU site https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/leila-adu-gilmore
Lab Manager
Isabelle Burger-Weiser
Isabelle Burger-Weiser is a songwriter, vocalist, and multimedia producer based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied philosophy and physics as an undergraduate at Columbia University and earned her masters degree in Music Technology at NYU. With a background in writing, radio and live performance, she strives to play a role in the social and cultural conversation surrounding music in addition to working on her own creative projects. Her current research focuses on sound design for film and developing immersive sonic experiences tied to environmental awareness and the realities of climate change. She continues to make and release tracks as a recording artist on multiple platforms. To listen to her compositions and learn more, visit www.izabellemusic.com.
Lab Members
Daniel Faronbi
Daniel Faronbi is a Music Technology PhD student in the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. His advisors are Dr. Juan P Bello and Dr. Leila Adu-Gilmore. His research interests lie in exploring machine learning techniques for generating representations for parameter generation in virtual instruments. Prior to his work with NYU, Daniel was involved in multiple research projects. He served as a research assistant at the Data and Decisions Sciences at the University of Nebraska focussed on implementation of multidimensional search algorithms for linear programming. He also worked as an Engineering Intern for Bot Image (an AI startup company) using computer vision and machine learning approaches to automate prostate cancer diagnosis from medical images. Daniel is also an active jazz pianist, music producer, and composer. He has performed for music groups spanning a wide variety of genres and has received both jazz and classical training. He has worked as a studio manager for Studio 381 at the University of Nebraska and has published the album, Don’t Sleep, for his jazz influenced group, B.E.D. Trio. Notable performance groups include B.E.D. Trio, NYU’s All University Jazz Ensemble, UNO Jazz Ensembles, and UNO Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Iran Roman
Erich Barganier
Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida, who currently resides between New York City and Montreal. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental and electronic music that explores experimental technology, extended techniques, improvisation, generative processes, the perception of noise and new forms of notation. His music has been recognized by ASCAP and The American Academy of Arts and Letters and he is an adjunct professor in New York University’s music technology program.
Affiliates
Paul Geluso
Paul Geluso’s work focuses on the theoretical, practical, and artistic aspects of sound recording and reproduction. He has been credited as producer, recording engineer, mastering engineer, and/or musician on hundreds of commercially released recordings, including Grammy nominated and Latin Grammy nominated titles and award winning films. His research focusses on new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback on multi-channel sound systems, recently co-editing “Immersive Sound: The Art And Science of Binaural and Multi-channel Audio” published by Focal Press-Routledge. He has taught classes in music production and technology at Bard College and the Peabody Institute, in addition to serving as the chief sound engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for more than 2 decades. Working with artists who use sound as a creative medium, his collaborative sound works have been exhibited at the The New Museum, Art In General, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Gale Gates Et Al, Cooper-Hewitt School of Design, London’s SPACE gallery, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, the DUMBO Arts Festival, White Box Art Gallery, New York Electronic Arts Festival, ISSUE project room, and NIME. He has received individual artist grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer. Professor Geluso received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1988 and a Master of Music in Music Technology from New York University in 2000.
Cisco Bradley
Cisco Bradley is associate professor of history at the Pratt Institute where his research focuses primarily on music and migration. He is the author of three books and numerous articles, including Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke University Press, 2021) and The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (Duke University Press, forthcoming, April 2023). Bradley founded the Free Jazz Oral History Project in 2016 which has systematically conducted more than 170 interviews with the founding generations of the music. His current research examines the role of the Great Migration in the rise of Black creative music/free jazz throughout different regions of the U.S.
Fred Moten
Fred Moten is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts. He teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, The Feel Trio, The Little Edges, The Service Porch, and All that Beauty among others. Moten has served on the editorial boards of Callaloo, Discourse, American Quarterly and Social Text; as a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine; on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York; and on the advisory board of Issues in Critical Investigation, Vanderbilt University. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/fred-moten
Kwami Coleman
Kwami Coleman is a pianist, composer, and musicologist specializing in improvised music. His research interests include experimental music history, jazz history, the history and music cultures of the African Diaspora, the political economy of music, music technology, aesthetics, and cultural studies. Coleman’s current book project, in production, is titled Change: The “New Thing” and Modern Jazz. His 2017 album is titled Local Music, and features original music written for trio and field recordings. His upcoming electronic recording project is titled POLY. Coleman was a founding member of the Afro-Latin@ Forum, a non-profit organization devoted to the study and increased visibility of Latinos of African descent in the United States, now housed in NYU’s Steinhardt School. https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/ktc4.html
Joanne Kinniburgh
PhD Candidate, Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges, University of Technology, Sydney; Lecturer, School of Architecture, UTS; Partner & Creative Director at Bangawarra with D’harawal Saltwater Knowledge Keeper Shannon Foster, an Aboriginal spatial knowledges and design consultancy. https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/joanne.kinniburgh
Pablo Ripolles
Pablo Ripollés is an Assistant Professor with a joint position between the Department of Psychology and the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) at New York University. He received a B.M. in Computer Engineering from University of València (2009), an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Navarra (2011), and a PhD in Biomedicine from the University of Barcelona (2016). Dr. Ripollés work relies on creating a joint theoretical framework to study language, reward, memory and music with a clear objective: capitalize on music to shape cognition, and capitalize on cognition to shape music. https://www.ripolleslab.com/team.html
Kevin Gotkin
Kevin Gotkin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, & Communication at NYU. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. He is the Artist-in-Remote-Residence at the Critical Design Lab and from 2016-2019, he was Co-Founder and Co-DIrector of Disability/Arts/NYC.
Delia Beatriz Martinez
Delia Beatriz is an electronic music producer, performer and DJ currently pursuing a Masters degree in Music technology from NYU. Her current research involves MIR and an archeological archive of Mayan wind instruments from the Late Classical Period. She got her B.A. from Brown University, where she studied International Relations and Latin American Studies. Her bachelor’s thesis project The Incunables investigated the role of the book & the printing press as a colonial technology in Mexico. Her debut LP Animus was released in 2018, receiving critical acclaim from a wide range of international media. It was ranked 14th in Fact Mag’s Best 50 Albums of the year and # 1 in Noisey Español’s Best Latin American Electronic Albums of 2018. That year, Vice’s Noisey Español also placed her as the top “20 Hispanic artists to keep in the radar of 2018”. In 2019, her third release System was ranked best music by Fact Mag, Resident Advisor and Pitchfork.
Willie Paine
Willie Payne is a PhD Candidate in Music Technology at NYU. He is invested in developing holistic, creative tools that enable others to express themselves on their own terms and to build confidence and self worth through positive experiences enacting original art. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including ASSETS (Computers and Accessibility), NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), and MOCO (Movement and Computing). Previously, he studied at CU Boulder where he completed degrees in Computer Science (BS/MS) and Music Composition (BM) and was honored with the distinction Outstanding Graduate of the College of Engineering.. https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl/people/payne
Groups
MARL
(Music and Audio Research Lab, NYU) We are affiliated with the MARL under the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, which brings together scholars from music theory, technology & composition, computer & information science, and interactive media to explore the intersection between music, computation and science.
WAAN (West African Audio Network)
Accra Segment, PI Amandine Pras University of Lethbridge. Funded by SSHRC grant, Canada. Collaboration with Amandine Pras, Education and network in Abijan, Accra, and Dakar with professors from Canadian institutions, Dr Adu-Gilmore and the Canadian National research association.
IDM
Launched in 2004, the Integrated Digital Media (IDM) Program is a place that fosters creative practice, design research and multidisciplinary experimentation with emerging media technologies. Located within Tandon School of Engineering, in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society (TCS), IDM is a ‘STEAM‘ program combining artistic inquiry with scientific research and technological practice to explore the social, cultural and ethical potentials of emerging technologies. We focus on how to create new experiences with technologies but also on what is worth making and why… We firmly believe in the role engineering and creativity can play in affecting social change, and have proudly developed and hosted conferences, hackathons, and days of action around diversity in games, inclusion and equity in creative technology, better experiences for users of mass transit, safer streets, design for disability, and immigrant rights.