Faculty
Todd Winkler Co-Director
Website | Todd_Winkler@brown.edu | 401.863.3651
Todd Winkler is a composer and multimedia artist on the faculty at Brown University, where he co-directs the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia, and chairs the Music Department. His work explores ways in which human actions can affect sound and images produced by computers in dance productions, interactive video installations, and concert pieces for computers and instruments. Full Profile
Joseph Butch Rovan Co-Director
Website | rovan@brown.edu |401.863.1793
Joseph Butch Rovan is a composer and performer on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brown University, where he co-directs program the MEME program. Prior to joining Brown he directed CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, at the University of North Texas, and was a “compositeur en recherche” with the Real-Time Systems Team at (IRCAM) in Paris. Full Profile
Technical Director
Jim Moses Technical Director/Lecturer
Website | jmoses@brown.edu | 401.863.9829
Jim is an audio producer, engineer, composer, sound designer, producer and musician. He has worked extensively in electro-acoustic music, radio broadcasting, theatrical sound design, and live and studio music production. Production credits include work for National Public Radio, BMG/musicmasters, Bridge, CRI, New World Records; compositions and sound designs include work presented by the International Computer Music Conference, The Acoustical Society of America, The New Jersey Opera Festival, Providence Black Rep, Pixilerations Festival, and The Princeton Composers Ensemble.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
Ed Osborn Professor of Art
Website | Ed_Osborn@brown.edu | 401.863.3651
Ed Osborn's sound art pieces take many forms including installation, sculpture, radio, video, performance, and public projects. His works combine a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion with a precise economy of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, Osborn's kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that are by turns playful and oblique, engaging and enigmatic. Full Profile
Gerald Shapiro Professor of Composition
Website | Gerald_Shapiro@brown.edu | 401.863.3651
Gerald M. Shapiro was born in Philadelphia in 1942 and attended public schools there. He received the Bachelor of Music degree with distinction from the Eastman School of Music in 1964 and continued with graduate work at Mills College, where he received an M.A. in 1967, the University of California at Davis, and the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique in Paris, France; where he studied under a Fulbright grant. Full Profile
Betsey Biggs Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies
Website | Betsey_Biggs@brown.edu | 401.863.1393
Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work in music, sound, video and installation aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to investigate the relationship between sound and image, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include a theatrical work with flutist and performer Margaret Lancaster, an outdoor mixer powered by people's shadows and a series of site-specific soundtracks. Biggs received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in conjunction with MEME through Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities.
