| Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

Jon Myers

at UC Santa Cruz

Jon Myers is an Assistant Researcher in Systematic Musicology in the Music department at UCSC, where he completed his DMA in Algorithmic Music Composition in 2022. He is a composer, musician, software engineer, music theorist, and teacher. His research interests include spatial audio, digital signal processing, acoustics/psychoacoustics, procedural/generative music, just intonation, non-metric temporality, acoustic ecology, and the development of notation/transcription models for non-western idiomatic musical traditions. He has participated in a variety of different research modalities having to do with sound, technology, computation, and creativity. Myers' research integrates music composition, theory, and analysis to broaden the discursive capabilities of scholars and artists, bringing quantitative approaches to bear on questions of musical style, affect, and coherence.