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Peer-reviewed

Summer 2023 · IASPM

The Humans and the Machine: Perceptual Differences Between Collective and Solo Performances

A comparison of Jacob Collier’s 2015 performance with Snarky Puppy and his 2016 One-Man Show, reading audience comments as evidence of how listeners value collective versus solo virtuosity. In Popular Music Climates, proceedings of IASPM XXI, Daegu.

February 2023 · Wikipedia

The Indie Classical Genre

Official Wikipedia article on music that follows classical practices while circulating through independent labels.

January 2021 · Routledge

The Online Composer-Audience Collaboration

On Jacob Collier and Andrew Huang, and how video platforms let composers request material directly from listeners. In Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities. This research received the George Proctor Prize from MusCan.

Essays

Research Connection

Internet Culture and Music

On folding cyberculture into a chamber-music setting for the recital Reflections of the Internet.

IRMC

Thank You, Internet

A 17-year-old in Mexico, a 160GB iPod Classic, and 600GB of music.

Selected presentations

The Online Composer-Audience Collaboration

Congress 2021 / MusCan (George Proctor Prize); IASPM-Canada 2021, Cape Breton; CysMus, Lisbon, 2020; Innovation in Music 2019, University of West London; Carleton; York University.

The Evolution of Style in Manuel M. Ponce’s Intermezzi

AMS New York State / St. Lawrence Chapter, Kingston, 2019.

The Five Styles of Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Music

6th World Piano Conference, Novi Sad, 2014.

La Humanidad en la Música

Lecture-recitals on Prokofiev in Aguascalientes, funded by a FONCA bursary for studies abroad, 2012.