Roger B. Dannenberg

Photo by Amelia Williams.

Roger B. Dannenberg

Emeritus Professor of
Computer Science, Art & Music
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: By appointment. I'm mostly working at home now. Fax: 412-268-5576
Email: rbd at cs.cmu.edu
Assistant: Christina Contreras

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Blog
Bibliography
Video Links

Compositions and performances
Nyquist Info, Nyquist Manual
Music projects
CMU School of Computer Science
ICMA Home
Electronic Music Foundation
Pittsburgh Jazz Network
Notes, Docs, etc.
Quotes from Richard
Franklin Roosevelt, 1938:
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” (quote from George Monbiot)
Sarah Chadwick, high school sophomore:
“We should change the names of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ because they are so easy to buy.” (Twitter)

Newsicon says new

Dec 19 ACM ByteCast Ep61: Roger Dannenberg (36 min) Interview with ACM is online (audio and transcript).
Dec 9 Lecture: “Repetition, Structure and Entropy in Music,” NYU GenAudio club Expert Talk, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NY.
Dec 9 Introduction to Computer Music, 3rd Ed. is now available on Amazon in paperback and ebook formats.
Jun 6 Panelist at Arts Engagement in an AI World at Indiana University Center for Cultural Affairs, AI Hallucinations roundtable, 2:45-3:45pm.
May 9 Panelist at Tech-Enhanced Music Education Symposium (TEMES) at McGill University's Schulich School of Music (online).
Feb 19 Performance of Felicità, composed by Jorge Sastre and Roger Dannenberg, Casa de Misericordia, Valencia, Spain. Two performances.
Jan 24, 2024 I am proud to become a Fellow of the ACM.

Old "news"...

Courses Taught

15-104 Principles of Computing for Creative Practice (prev: fall 2018)
15-322 Introduction to Computer Music (with Jesse Stiles, prev: fall 2018, next: fall 2019)
15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing (prev: spring 2019)
15-110 Principles of Computing (last taught by me fall 2013)
15-410 Operating System Design and Implementation (last taught by me fall 2012)
15-441 Computer Networks (last taught by me fall 2011)
15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems (last taught by me fall 2009)

Research Interests

Computer Music: sound synthesis, interactive performance systems, music representation, music understanding.
Real-Time and Multimedia Systems: especially the problems of constructing reliable, modular, complex interactive systems.
Computer-Based Instruction: using Instructional Design concepts and Multimedia for practical, large curriculum, effective instruction systems.
Research description from the CMU CSD Faculty Research Guide

Projects

Here’s a summary of things I’m working on or would like to be working on.
Computer Music at CMU SCS
Soundcool

True story:

In Pittsburgh called to interview me. At one point the reporter asked if “Roger Dannenberg, trumpeter” would be right, and I said “trumpeter, composer, computer scientist, whatever you want.” The reporter got excited, ”ooh, I like that, ‘trumpeter, composer, computer scientist’. They may edit out ‘computer scientist’ but I'll put it in anyway.”

[画像:Dannenberg playing trumpet.]
Photo by Alisa.

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