About

My work concentrates on phenomenological approaches to meaning and on developing a critical understanding of musical hermeneutics.  Specific areas of interest include attention and affect, listening and interpretation, and theoretical approaches to the study of acousmatic music. Current research focuses on late twentieth-century music and contemporary electronic works.

As computing consultant on the Serge Prokofiev Archive housed at Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, I have developed methods for visualizing archival holdings and am currently researching methods for the encoding and display of musical fragments transcribed from the composer’s notebooks.

My investigations in aesthetics and interpretation are informed by training in semiotics and semantics: in addition to an MA in music from Columbia, I have a BA in linguistics with high honors from UC Berkeley and an MA in applied linguistics from UCLA.