Lecturer, Music Technology
email: camercer@hotmail.com
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Chris Mercer received a B.M. in Composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Composition at the University of California, San Diego in 2003. His principal teachers were Chaya Czernowin and Chinary Ung, instrumental music, and Peter Otto and Roger Reynolds, electronic music. He has held artist residencies at Experimentalstudio SWR, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and Sound Traffic Control in San Francisco; his music has been performed by The Nonsense Company, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble SurPlus, SONOR Ensemble, and Schlagquartett Koln. His most recent electroacoustic music and research have focused on animal communication, especially nonhuman primate vocalization, including research residencies at the Duke University Lemur Center, the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, and the Brookfield Zoo. His instrumental music involves modified conventional instruments, found objects, and instruments of the composer's own design, in combination with amplification, live electronics, and spatialization. He has taught electronic music at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, and CalArts; he is currently coordinator of the Music Technology program at Northwestern University.

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
email: pardo@northwestern.edu
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Bryan Pardo is an assistant professor in the Northwestern University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with appointments in the Music Cognition program and the Center for Technology and Social Behavior. Prof. Pardo received a M. Mus. in Jazz in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005, both from the University of Michigan. He has developed speech software for the Speech and Hearing department of the Ohio State University, statistical software for SPSS and worked as a machine learning researcher for General Dynamics. While finishing his doctorate, he taught in the Music Department of Madonna University. When he's not programming, writing or teaching, he performs throughout the United States on saxophone and clarinet at venues such as Albion College, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Detroit Concert of Colors, Bloomington Indiana's Lotus Festival and Tucson's Rialto Theatre.

Associate Professor, Radio, Television, and Film
email: d-tolchinsky@northwestern.edu
MFA, University of Southern California

A feature screenwriter with a longtime interest in sound design and digital technologies. Trained as an experimental composer at Yale and recipient of certificates from MIT in digital audio processing and computer music composition. M.F.A. work at USC led to the short experimental film, "The Personal Life of Mr. Phelps," that was nominated for a Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award. Prof. Tolchinsky is head of the Creative Writing Program and Co-director of the Sound Design Program.

Assistant Professor, Music Education/Music Technology
email: m-hickey at northwestern.edu
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Coordinator, Music Education Program. Instrumental music education specialist. Contributor to Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, and Research Studies in Music Education. Developer of customized music composition software. Editorial chair, Music Educators Journal and editorial board member, Journal for Technology in Music Learning; music education board member, College Music Society. Former music instructor and director of bands at public schools in Indiana and Wisconsin. Member, Music Educators National Conference, College Music Society, Association for Technology in Music Instruction, and American Educational Research Association.

John W. Beattie professor of Music Education and Technology
email: p-webster at northwestern.edu
Ph.D., Eastman School of Music
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Instrumental music educator and researcher. Coauthor of book and CD Experiencing Music Technology (Schirmer Macmillan, 1999) and many chapters and articles on creative thinking and its assessment. Specialist in creative thinking in music and music technology. Editorial board member, Journal for Technology in Music Learning, International Journal of Education in the Arts, Research Studies in Music Education, and Psychomusicology. Also teaches in the music cognition program.