Season 1 (Spring 2022)

Supplemental Materials (PDF)

Producer: Landon Morrison with assistance from Megan Lyons.

Music Credits:
SMT-Pod Theme music by Zhangcheng Lu;
Closing music "hnna" by David Voss.
Music by Landon Morrison.

Bio: Landon Morrison is a Lecturer in the Music Department at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on a wide range of topics, including timbre, popular music analysis, and sound studies. More broadly, his research aims to draw theories of music and media into a cross-disciplinary dialogue that examines technocultural mediation in contemporary sonic practices. He has presented his work at many (inter)national conferences and published in leading journals, including Music Theory Online (2021, 2015), Circuit (2019, 2018), Nuove Musiche (2018), and Kalfou (forthcoming). Most recently, he contributed a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Time in Music (2021), where he sketches a history of rhythm quantization, examining its attendant technologies and reception within the context of various popular music genres. Outside of academic life, he enjoys playing piano, violin, and guitar, as well as noodling on synthesizers—a hobby put to use in creating a soundtrack for his SMT-Pod episode.

Acknowledgements: This episode includes interviews with Carmine Emanuele Cella (UC Berkeley), Mehak Sawhney (McGill), and Jonathan Sterne (McGill University). The author would like to thank them for their participation.

Keywords: Vocal timbre, machine listening, instrumental synthesis, computer-assisted orchestration, Jonathan Harvey