Student

Josiah Adrineda

Composition

Saagar Asnani

Musicology

Saagar is a PhD student in Musicology and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research joins together the disparate fields of musicology and sociohistorical linguistics in an attempt to think historically about the multifarious relationships between music and language. Saagar’s work centers on vernacular musico-poetic traditions in medieval Europe, particularly in France, Occitania, Catalonia, and Italy, analyzing how people have created sounds – notably through language, poetry, and song – in order to reach a more holistic understanding of historical figures in...

Saagar Asnani

Musicology

Saagar is a PhD student in Musicology and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research joins together the disparate fields of musicology and sociohistorical linguistics in an attempt to think historically about the multifarious relationships between music and language. Saagar’s work centers on vernacular musico-poetic traditions in medieval Europe, particularly in France, Occitania, Catalonia, and Italy, analyzing how people have created sounds – notably through language, poetry, and song – in order to reach a more holistic understanding of historical figures in...

Andrew Blanton

Composition

Andrew Blanton is a PhD student in music composition. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current research focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts and technology in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building sound + visual environments through software development. He is working closely with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California...

Andrew Blanton

Composition

Andrew Blanton is a PhD student in music composition. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current research focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts and technology in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building sound + visual environments through software development. He is working closely with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California...

E. Ceyda Çekmeci

Musicology

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Ceyda Çekmeci completed her B.A. in Sociology at Boğaziçi University (2016) and her M.A. in Musicology at Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Studies in Music (2019). In the meantime, she worked as a choir conductor in various public and private institutions, most notably at the Music for Peace Foundation (El Sistema Turkey) which also formed the basis of her master’s thesis entitled “Music as Mediating the Self and the Social: An Ethnographic Field Study at the Music for Peace Foundation, El Sistema Turkey”. Her doctoral work at UC Berkeley...

Simon Cohen

Musicologist

I am a musicologist whose research focuses on French cultural history in the middle of the nineteenth century. I am interested in how music mediates and how it is mediated—its role in facilitating intimate social networks, colonial dispersion, and assertions of political power.

My previous projects have considered Rossini and salon culture in Second Empire Paris and the relationship between economics and aesthetics in music publishing. In my present ongoing research, I am exploring transmission and circulation of patriotic songs, anthems, and marches in France and abroad under the...

Nathan Corder

Composition

Sasha Desberg

Ethnomusicology

Luke Dzwonczyk

Composition

Luke Dzwonczyk is a composer and technologist whose work is centered on engaging emerging technologies with music creation and performance. He has applied his technical and creative skills to a variety of projects and collaborations in the Berkeley community and abroad, including work with dancers, singers, and visual artists. His research focuses on the intersection of computational creativity, generative machine learning, and audio-visual art.