Morwaread Farbood
Associate Professor, Music Technology
Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A.B. Harvard College

Research

Doctoral Students

Dirk Vander Wilt
Research interests: Audio description, technology for accessibility in live theatrical performances, music software application development. Background: M.A. Music Composition, New York University. B.F.A. Film and Television Production, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.

Michal Goldstein
Research interests: The intersection between music theory and perception; using the experience of music listening in order to better understand the brain. Co-advisor: Pablo Ripollés Background: B.A. in Musicology and Psychology and M.A. in Musicology and Cognitive Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Post-Doctoral Collaborators

Claire Pelofi
Research interests: Music cognition; cognition of scale structures; EEG. Background: Ph.D. Auditory Neuroscience, Master’s in Cognitive Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Master’s in Philosophy, La Sorbonne.

Alumni

Finn Upham
Research interests: Temporal experience of music, continuous response data analysis, embodied cognition. Background: M.A. Music Technology, B.S. Mathematics, B.M. Music Theory, McGill University, Montreal.

Oriol Nieto
Research interests: Music information retrieval, unsupervised musical pattern recognition. Background: M.A. Music, Science, and Technology (CCRMA), Stanford. M.S. Information, Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. B.S. Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona.

Kwan Kim
Research interests: Content-based music information retrieval, mood-classification of music and mood as a new medium of human-computer interaction. Background: B.S. Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins. M.S. Culture Technology at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).

Khen Price
Research interests: Sound synthesis, signal processing, music cognition and perception, and how these apply to contemporary audio production. Background: B.A. Cognitive Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel. B.M. (Rubin) Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Natalie Wu
Research interests: Music perception and its application in game audio. Background: B.S. Psychology, National Taiwan University.

Ned Dana
Research interests: Music cognition, music perception, studying emotional data for hit song prediction. Background: B.A., Psychology, Yale College.

Charles Mueller
Research interests: Audio engineering and recording; auditory effects of microphone preamplifiers with transformers. Background: B.A. Music, Northwestern (guitar performance and music technology).

Additional Collaborators

Pablo Ripollés
David Poeppel
Panos Mavromatis
David Heeger
Oded Ghitza
Uri Hasson
Gary Marcus
Jess Rowland
Michael Grubb
Yulia Lerner