Who We Are
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology consists of a core faculty and staff, partnering faculty, Ph.D. students and master's students, plus our partners and alumni.
Meet our Partners
At the Center for Music Technology, we value partnering with internal and external collaborators, which support, enhance, and help disseminate our research. Our partners include Georgia Tech units such as the GVU Center, the Office of the Arts, and the Digital Media Program; industry collaborators and sponsors such as Moog, Dolby, Google and Gracenote; and private and governmental partners such as the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, and the Woodruff Arts Center.
Gil Weinberg, Founding Director
Gil Weinberg is a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic robotic arm for amputees that restores and enhances human drumming abilities. Weinberg has presented his work worldwide in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The World Economic Forum, Ars Electronica, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, SIGGRAPH, TED-Ed, DLD and others. His music has been performed with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony while his research has been disseminated through numerous journal articles and patents. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his B.A. from the interdisciplinary program for fostering excellence in Tel Aviv University.
Jason Freeman
Jason Freeman is a professor of music and chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Music. His artistic practice and scholarly research focus on using technology to engage diverse audiences in collaborative, experimental, and accessible musical experiences. He also develops educational interventions in grades K-12, university, and MOOC (massive open online course) environments that broaden and increase engagement in STEM disciplines through authentic integrations of music and computing. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, exhibited at ACM SIGGRAPH, published by Universal Edition, broadcast on public radio’s Performance Today, and commissioned through support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Freeman’s wide-ranging work has attracted support from sources such as the National Science Foundation, Google, and Turbulence. He has published his research in leading conferences and journals such as Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound, NIME, and ACM SIGCSE. Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University.
Alexander Lerch
Alexander Lerch works on creating the next generation of music software technology, enabling new ways of understanding, creating, accessing, and listening to music. His main research areas are Music Information Retrieval, Audio Content Analysis, and Intelligent Signal Processing. Lerch studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Berlin and Tonmeister (Music Production) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He received his Ph.D. on algorithmic music performance analysis from the Technical University Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the company zplane.development – a research-driven technology provider for the music industry. At zplane, Lerch worked on the design and implementation of algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval that have been licensed to companies such as ableton, Native Instruments, and Sony. His book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis" was published in 2012 by IEEE / Wiley press. In 2013, Lerch joined the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he heads the Music Informatics Group.
Grace Leslie
Grace Leslie is adjunct faculty in Georgia Tech’s School of Music. She is a flutist, electronic musician, and scientist. As an electronic music composer and improviser, she maintains a brain-body performance practice. She strives to integrate conventional emotional and musical expression that she learned as a flutist with the new forms available to her as an electronic musician, using brain-computer interface to reveal aspects of her internal mental state, those left unexpressed by sound or gesture, to an audience. In recent years she has performed this music in academic and popular music venues, conferences, and residencies in the United States and various countries around the world. Leslie completed her Ph.D. in Music and Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Stanford University.
Frank Clark
Frank Clark, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Music, is a multimedia composer, performer, and consultant. His primary interests lie in exploring the intersections of narrative, meaning, and image. He has received numerous awards and honors and presents regularly at clinics, workshops, and for professional organizations. His most recent work revolves around designing multimedia performance systems integrating improvisation and real-time visualization with gestural and digital audience input. Clark received his Bachelor of Music Education at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. He was awarded a Master’s in Horn Performance from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Music Theory/Composition from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory at the University of South Alabama, coordinator of music at Lewis Clark State College, and an assistant professor at Pacific University and the University of Northern Iowa.
Chris Moore
Chris Moore currently serves as Director of Athletic Bands and Coordinator of Percussion Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has been since 1995. He previously served as Assistant Director and Staff Arranger of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Band and Director of Instrumental Music at Marist School in Atlanta. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Jacksonville State University and earned a Master of Music degree from East Carolina University. He has served as percussion and arranging consultant to Wynton Marsalis on works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Moore is the Director of the Atlanta Falcons Drumline and House Band and is also the Director of the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps. His research interests are in 3D audio environments, music production and performance technologies.
Claire Arthur
Claire Arthur is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Music. She conducts an interdisciplinary research practice based in music theory, music perception and cognition, and computational musicology. Her recent research has focused on modeling musical structure from a statistical perspective, as well as examining the cognitive and behavioral correlates of those structures, especially as it relates to musical expectations and emotional responses. Her research has been published in leading conferences and journals, including Music Perception, Musicae Scientiae, ICMPC, and ISMIR. Claire received her Ph.D. in music theory and cognition from Ohio State University and was a postdoctoral fellow in music technology at McGill University.