He/Him
Arts Division
Assistant Researcher in Systematic Musicology
Staff
Remote work location
Music Center
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.
June, 2024 Interactive Demonstration and Presentation on the Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform [IDTAP] at the Western and World Symposium, hosted by Labrinth Ontario, June 12 - 16, Toronto, Canada.
Mar, 2024 The Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform (IDTAP): Enabling the Computational and Heuristic Analysis of Sound, Music, and the Social. Presented at the International Conference on New Music Concepts [ICNMC], Treviso, Italy.
Jan, 2024 Presentation on the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform [IDTP] to the engineering division of the India Institute of Technology [IIT], Delhi, India.
Oct, 2023 Workshop on the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform [IDTP] at the Society for Ethnomusicology [SEM] annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
May, 2023 Demonstration of the Interactive Digital Transcription Platform [IDTP] at the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation [TENOR], Boston MA
Oct, 2019 Workshop on ambisonic field recording, and building a collaborative SoundMap of Horse Island, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Aug, 2019 Lecture on Recent Compositions. Ostrava Days New Music Festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Neuman, Dard and Myers, Jonathan. “The Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform (IDTAP): Enabling the Computational and Heuristic Analysis of Sound, Music, and the Social" (2024) (forthcoming, International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art; preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jx3pk)
Dunn, David, et al. "Recording Meta-Soundscapes: Synchronized Multi-frame Audio Field-recording at a Large Spatial Scale" (2020). (preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9tz2w)
