Sonic Self-Portrait    Jazz snapshot Photo by Amelia Williams.

Roger B. Dannenberg

Emeritus Professor of
  Computer Science, Art & Music
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: By appointment. I'm mostly working at home now. Fax: 412-268-5576
Email: rbd at cs.cmu.edu
Assistant: Christina Contreras

For More Information

• Blog
• Bibliography
• Video Links
• Compositions and performances
• Nyquist Info, Nyquist Manual
• Music projects
• CMU School of Computer Science
• ICMA Home
• Electronic Music Foundation
• Pittsburgh Jazz Network
• Notes, Docs, etc.
• Quotes from Richard
• Franklin Roosevelt, 1938:
  “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” (quote from George Monbiot)
• Sarah Chadwick, high school sophomore:
  “We should change the names of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ because they are so easy to buy.” (Twitter)

News

• Dec 19 ACM ByteCast Ep61: Roger Dannenberg (36 min) Interview with ACM is online (audio and transcript).
• Dec 9 Lecture: “Repetition, Structure and Entropy in Music,” NYU GenAudio club Expert Talk, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NY.
• Dec 9 Introduction to Computer Music, 3rd Ed. is now available on Amazon in paperback and ebook formats.
• Jun 6 Panelist at Arts Engagement in an AI World at Indiana University Center for Cultural Affairs, AI Hallucinations roundtable, 2:45-3:45pm.
• May 9 Panelist at Tech-Enhanced Music Education Symposium (TEMES) at McGill University's Schulich School of Music (online).
• Feb 19 Performance of Felicità, composed by Jorge Sastre and Roger Dannenberg, Casa de Misericordia, Valencia, Spain. Two performances.
• Jan 24, 2024 I am proud to become a Fellow of the ACM.

• Old "news"...

Courses Taught

• 15-104 Principles of Computing for Creative Practice (prev: fall 2018)
• 15-322 Introduction to Computer Music (with Jesse Stiles, prev: fall 2018, next: fall 2019)
• 15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing (prev: spring 2019)
• 15-110 Principles of Computing (last taught by me fall 2013)
• 15-410 Operating System Design and Implementation (last taught by me fall 2012)
• 15-441 Computer Networks (last taught by me fall 2011)
• 15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems (last taught by me fall 2009)

Research Interests

• Computer Music: sound synthesis, interactive performance systems, music representation, music understanding.
• Real-Time and Multimedia Systems: especially the problems of constructing reliable, modular, complex interactive systems.
• Computer-Based Instruction: using Instructional Design concepts and Multimedia for practical, large curriculum, effective instruction systems.
• Research description from the CMU CSD Faculty Research Guide

Projects

• Here’s a summary of things I’m working on or would like to be working on.
• Computer Music at CMU SCS
• Soundcool