Margaret Schedel
Professor; Composition and Computer Music
margaret.schedel@stonybrook.edu
With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition,
sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne
Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at
the nexus of computation and the arts. She has a diverse creative output with works
spanning the interactive multimedia opera The King Listens, virtual reality experiences,
sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments
or custom controllers with interactive audio and video processing. She is internationally
recognized for the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media and won
the 2019 Pamela Z Innovation Award. Her solo CD, Signal through the Flames, will be
released by Parma Records in2020. She holds a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline
Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle
and Geoffrey Wright and improvisation with George Lewis and Mark Applebaum. Schedel
is a joint author of Cambridge University Press's Electronic Music and recently edited
an issue of Organised Sound on using electroacoustic terminology to describe pre-electric
sound. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para
laMúsica y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. She has been commissioned by
the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Ictus, reACT, Yarn|Wire and the Unheard-of//Ensemble.
Her research focuses on gesture in music, the sustainability of technology in art,
and sonification of data; she co-authored a paper published in Frontiers of Neuroscience
on using familiar music to sonify the gaits of people with Parkinson's Disease. She
serves as a regional editor for Organised Sound and is an editor for the open access
journal Cogent Arts and Humanities. From 2009-2014 she helped run Devotion, a gallery
in New York City focused on the intersection of art, science, new media, and design. As
an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she taught SUNY’s first
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Coursera, and formerly served as the director
of the Consortium for Digital Arts Culture and Technology. Schedel currently serves
as the co-director of computer music and leads the Making Sense of Data Workgroup
at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science. She also teaches composition for
new media at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. In her spare time,
she curates exhibitions focusing on the intersection of art, science, new media, and
sound while running www.arts.codes, a platform and artist collective celebrating art
with computational underpinnings.
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