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EC2
by Ella Choi
Welcome to EC2, a student-led, independent podcast hosted by Ella Choi. Join her on an intellectual journey as she delves into the rich tapestry of music through in-depth interviews with a vast variety of professionals in the musical field. Through insightful conversations, we explore the historical, cultural, and societal significance of music, unraveling its intricate layers and diverse influences. Prepare to expand your knowledge, broaden your perspective, and deepen your appreciation for the impact of music on our world.
Episodes
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Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Annie Hsieh. Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh is a Taiwanese-Australian composer working in acoustic and electroacoustic music, known for creating vivid sonic experiences shaped by space, gesture, and social interaction. Her works have been presented internationally at major...
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Andrew Waggoner
In this episode, I chat with Professor Andrew Waggoner. Professor Waggoner is a composer whose vivid, dramatic style has earned praise from The New Yorker as "the gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style." His music has been commissioned and performed by major...
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Pascal Le Boeuf
In this episode, I chat with Professor Pascal Le Boeuf. Professor Le Boeuf is a GRAMMY-winning composer, jazz pianist, and producer whose music blends improvised performance with chamber writing and technology-driven production. Praised by the New York Times for his sleek, hyper-fluent style, he...
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David S. Lefkowitz
In this episode, I chat with Professor David S. Lefkowitz. Professor Lefkowitz is a composer, theorist, and professor at UCLA whose music has been performed widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His more than 150 works range from solo and chamber pieces to large-scale music for…
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Eran Egozy
In this episode, I chat with Professor Eran Egozy. Professor Egozy is Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at MIT, an entrepreneur, clarinetist, and technologist best known as co-founder and chief technical officer of Harmonix Music Systems, the company behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band,...
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Jason Yust
In this episode, I chat with Professor Jason Yust. Professor Yust is a music theorist and professor at Boston University whose research spans mathematical theories of rhythm and harmonic spaces, Schenkerian analysis, eighteenth-century form, music perception, and scale theory. His 2018 book...
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Gundula Kreuzer
In this episode, I chat with Professor Gundula Kreuzer. Professor Kreuzer is a musicologist and Professor at Yale University whose research spans the history and theory of opera, staging technologies, media archaeology, music in the Third Reich, and contemporary experimental opera. Her first…
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Wolfgang Marx
In this episode, I chat with Professor Wolfgang Marx. Professor Marx is Professor of Historical Musicology at University College Dublin and a member of the UCD Humanities Institute, whose research centers on the representation of death in music, György Ligeti, post-truth and music, and the theory...
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Derek David
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Derek David. Mr. David is a composer, conductor, and educator based in Boston whose work spans dramatic chamber, vocal, and orchestral music as well as a deep commitment to Yiddish musical culture. He is currently Lecturer in Music at MIT and serves as musical...
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Oscar Bettison
In this episode, I chat with Professor Oscar Bettison. Professor Bettison is a British-American composer and faculty member in the Composition Department at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2009. Described as possessing "an unconventional lyricism…
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Forrest Pierce
In this episode, I chat with Professor Forrest Pierce. Professor Pierce is a composer and Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Kansas whose music blends religious mysticism, contemporary virtuosity, and a deep affinity for the human voice. Sincere, often triadic, and blatantly...
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Kelly Bylica
In this episode, I chat with Professor Kelly Bylica. Professor Bylica is a music education scholar and faculty member at Boston University whose research focuses on curriculum and policy, critical pedagogy, middle school music, and issues of diversity, access, and leadership in music education....
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Felipe Lara
In this episode, I chat with Professor Felipe Lara. Professor Lara is a Brazilian-American composer and Associate Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, praised by the New York Times as "a gifted Brazilian-American modernist" whose music possesses...
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Adam Boyles
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Adam Boyles. Mr. Boyles is a conductor and vocalist who has been a prominent figure in New England's musical life for nearly two decades. He serves as Assistant Conductor of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Director of Orchestras at MIT, and is Music Director...
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Miguel Zenón
In this episode, I chat with Professor Miguel Zenón. Professor Zenón is a Grammy-winning alto saxophonist, composer, and Associate Professor in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, widely regarded as one of the most groundbreaking and influential musicians of his generation. Born and raised in San…
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Elijah Smith
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Elijah Smith. Mr. Smith is an American composer and electronic musician whose work spans orchestral, chamber, and multimedia genres, marked by dense textures, rhythmic ambiguity, and rich gravitational harmonies. His music has been described as "gnashing and...
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Dan DiPiero
In this episode, I chat with Professor Dan DiPiero. Professor DiPiero is a musician, writer, and Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University whose research explores affective connections between aesthetics and politics in U.S. improvised and popular music. He is the author of Contingent...
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Louis Epstein
In this episode, I chat with Professor Louis Epstein. Professor Epstein is a historical musicologist specializing in early twentieth-century French music, digital mapping, and the science of teaching and learning. His book The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France examines...
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Colin Roust
In this episode, I chat with Professor Colin Roust. Professor Roust is a musicologist and professor at the University of Kansas whose research focuses on twentieth-century music, film music, band music, and the intersections of music, politics, and other arts such as film, opera, and ballet. He...
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Sarah Iker
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Sarah Iker. Dr. Iker is a music theorist and lecturer in the Music & Theater Arts section at MIT, where she teaches music theory, music history, aural skills, and seminars on topics such as dance, opera, and musical theater. She holds a Ph.D. in Music History and...
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Garo Saraydarian
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Garo Saraydarian. Mr. Saraydarian is a musician, educator, and researcher whose work spans jazz performance, music theory, and cross-cultural pedagogy. He teaches musicianship and music theory at MIT and serves as Assistant Professor in the Harmony department at...
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Evan Ziporyn
In this episode, I chat with Professor Evan Ziporn. Professor Ziporyn is a composer, clarinetist, and cross-cultural innovator whose music bridges Balinese gamelan, contemporary classical, and experimental traditions. He is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT, where he serves…
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Elena Ruehr
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Elena Ruehr. Dr. Ruehr is a composer, Guggenheim Fellow, and award-winning faculty member at MIT, where she has taught since 1992. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School, her music (described by The New York Times as "sumptuously scored...
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Gareth Dylan Smith
In this episode, I chat with Professor Gareth Dylan Smith. Professor Smith is a drummer, scholar, and educator whose work spans the worlds of popular music performance and academic research. A professor whose scholarship focuses on drum kit studies, popular music education, and philosophical…
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Peter B Child
In this episode, I chat with Professor Peter B Child. Professor Child is Professor of Music and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A composer whose mentors include William Albright, Arthur Berger, and Jacob Druckman, Professor Child earned his Ph.D. in...
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Roger Matthew Grant
In this episode, I chat with Professor Roger Matthew Grant. Professor Grant is a music theorist and cultural historian specializing in eighteenth-century music, affect theory, and the history of music theory. He is the author of Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical and Beating...
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Alexandre Abdoulaev
In this episode, I chat with Professor Alexandre Abdoulaev. Professor Abdoulaev is a pianist, conductor, researcher, arranger, and band leader based in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been studying pianosince 1985, and has been teaching piano, music theory, and music history professionally for over...
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Emily Richmond Pollock
In this episode, I chat with Professor Emily Richmond Pollock. Professor Pollock is an Associate Professor of Music at MIT whose research explores twentieth-century opera, musical institutions, and cultural politics. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, she...
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David Deveau
In this episode, I chat with Mr. David Deveau. Mr. Deveau is an acclaimed American pianist, chamber musician, and educator who has performed internationally with major orchestras and ensembles for over four decades. A Juilliard-trained artist and recipient of the SHASS Levitan Award for…
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Jeff Snyder
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Jeffrey Snyder. Mr. Snyder is a composer, improviser, and instrument designer based in Princeton, New Jersey. As founder of Snyderphonics, he creates original electronic instruments such as the Manta and JD-1 Keyboard/Sequencer, used by musicians worldwide. His...
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David Kechley
In this episode, I chat with Professor David Kechley. Professor Kechley is an American composer whose music spans orchestral, chamber, and solo genres, blending influences from classical, contemporary, and vernacular traditions. Known for his dynamic contrasts of lyricism and virtuosity…
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Nina Fukuoka
In this episode, I chat with Ms. Nina Fukuoka. Ms. Fukuoka is a Japanese and Polish composer and performer based in New York City. Her work brings together instrumental and computer music with multimedia art, exploring the intersections of sound, technology, and identity. Drawing from horror...
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Craig Wright
In this episode, I chat with Professor Craig Wright. Professor Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, where he has taught since 1973 and chaired the Department of Music from 1986 to 1992. A leading scholar of medieval and Renaissance music, his...
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Dmitri Tymoczko
In this episode, I chat with Professor Dmitri Tymoczko. Professor Tymoczko is a composer, theorist, and scholar whose work bridges music, mathematics, and philosophy. He is Professor of Music at Princeton University and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. A Rhodes Scholar and...
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David Berezan
In this episode, I chat with Professor David Berezan. David Berezan is Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the University of Manchester. He is the founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studios and the MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) concert series. Originally from Canada, he...
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Emmanuela Wroth
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Emmanuela Wroth. Dr. Wroth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge whose research explores nineteenth-century French music theatre, celebrity, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Her current project, Diasporic...
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Jennifer Iverson
In this episode, I chat with Professor Jennifer Iverson. Professor Iverson is a musicologist whose research explores the intersections of music, technology, and culture. A leading scholar of electronic and experimental music, she is the author of Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold...
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Richard Whalley
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Richard Whalley. Dr. Whalley is a composer and pianist based in Manchester, where he serves as Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester. His music draws inspiration from time, memory, visual art, geopolitics, and the natural world- ranging…
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Nina Shekhar
In this episode, I chat with Ms. Nina Shekhar. Ms. Shekhar is a composer, producer, songwriter, and multimedia artist whose work explores identity, vulnerability, and human connection through bold, emotionally charged sound worlds. Hailed by The New York Times as “tart and compelling” and by the…
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Paul Phillips
In this episode, I chat with Professor Paul Phillips. Professor Phillips is a conductor, composer, pianist, and author who serves as Professor of Music and Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University. He directs the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia,...
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John Rink
In this episode, I chat with Professor John Rink, who is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Music at St John’s College. A leading scholar of performance studies and nineteenth-century music, he is particularly renowned for his research on Chopin. Educated at...
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Esther Kurtz
In this episode, I chat with Professor Esther Kurtz from Washington University of St. Louis Arts & Sciences. Professor Kurtz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, affiliated with the Performing Arts Department and the Department of African and...
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Elizabeth Eva Leach
In this episode, I chat with Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach. Professor Leach is a distinguished musicologist and music theorist at the University of Oxford, specializing in medieval music and poetry - particularly from the fourteenth century. Her award-winning scholarship ranges from detailed...
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Tom Collins
In this episode, I chat with Professor Tom Collins. Professor Collins is an Associate Professor of Music Engineering Technology at the Frost School of Music and Principal Investigator of the Music Computing and Psychology Lab. His research focuses on developing and applying machine learning...
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Frederick Harris
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Frederick Harris. Dr. Harris is Director of Wind and Jazz Ensembles at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he leads the MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, and jazz chamber music programs. He founded It Must Be Now!, a multimedia project...
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Erik Ulman
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Erik Ulman. Mr. Ulman is a Lecturer in Music at Stanford University whose compositions have been performed by renowned interpreters, including the Arditti Quartet, Claire Chase, and the Formalist Quartet. He studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough at UCSD and...
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Robert Clendenen
In this episode, I chat with Mr. Robert Clendenen. Mr. Clendenen is a composer, performer, and educator whose work spans experimental music, jazz, and rock. He has collaborated with Grammy-winning bassist Charlie Haden and opened for artists ranging from Frank Black to various jam bands, while...
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Andrei Pohorelsky
In this episode, I chat with Professor Andrei Pohorelsky. Professor Pohorelsky is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, with a focus on American vernacular traditions and materialist approaches to musicology. His current book project, In Search of Ragtime…
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Keith Dodson
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Keith Dodson. Dr. Keith Dodson is Director of Orchestral Activities and Assistant Professor of Conducting at Central Michigan University, where he leads the Symphony Orchestra and mentors future string educators. He is the founding Music Director of the Chamber...
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Jesse Rodin
In this episode, I chat with Professor Jesse Rodin. Professor Rodin is a musicologist and performer dedicated to bringing the sound world of the Renaissance to life through scholarship and performance. A professor at Stanford University, he directs the vocal ensemble Cut Circle and the Josquin...
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Welcome to EC2, a student-led, independent podcast hosted by Ella Choi. Join her on an intellectual journey as she delves into the rich tapestry of music through in-depth interviews with a vast variety of professionals in the musical field. Through insightful conversations, we explore the historical, cultural, and societal significance of music, unraveling its intricate layers and diverse influences. Prepare to expand your knowledge, broaden your perspective, and deepen your appreciation for the impact of music on our world.
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