Eliot Britton integrates electronic, audiovisual and instrumental music through an energetic and colourful personal language.  His creative output reflects an eclectic musical experience, from gramophones to videogames, drum machines to orchestras. Rhythmic gadgetry, artistry and the colours of technology permeate his works. 

Nicole Biamonte has studied music theory, piano, and choral conducting. Before coming to McGill, she taught at Yale University, Skidmore College, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Iowa.

John Rea has lectured and published articles on twentieth century music and, since 1973, has taught composition, music theory and music history at McGill University where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Music (1986-1991), today the Schulich School of Music.

Emily I. Dolan joined the faculty at Brown University in 2019. Previously, she held positions at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dolan works on the music of the late 18th and 19th centuries. She focuses on issues of orchestration, timbre, aesthetics, and instrumentality, exploring in the intersections between music, science, and technology.

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Lindsey Reymore is an assistant professor of Music Theory in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre and co-director of the CACTUS Music Lab at ASU. Her research investigates the role of timbre—the perceptual qualities or characteristics of sound—in musical experience.

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Composer, electronic musician, and improvising pianist Anthony Tan (Canada) intersects notated instrumental practice with signal processing, synthesized models, sampling, and field recording, resulting in music that explores the identity of sound, and the fluidity of genre.

Daphne Tan is Associate Professor of Music Theory. Her research explores questions about music and the mind, with methodologies and perspectives from the history of music theory and cognitive science.

Michael Tenzer is active as a performer, composer, scholar, and teacher. As an ethnomusicologist his four books and many articles address topics ranging from aesthetics to category theory, and has been instrumental in the recent revival of music analysis techniques in the study of world traditions.

Musicienne et ingénieure de formation, je mène des recherches et enseigne dans le domaine de l'acoustique musicale, de l'organologie, de la psychoacoustique et de l'informatique musicale. Dès mon entrée en fonction à la Faculté de musique, je me suis engagée activement dans le développement de plusieurs secteurs académiques, de la composition électroacoustique à la musicologie.

Zachary Wallmark is a musicologist with an interest in popular music, timbre, and music cognition. Prior to his appointment at UO, Wallmark served on the music faculty at Southern Methodist University, where he also held a courtesy appointment in psychology.

Yadegari is currently on the faculty of the department of Music at UC San Diego, and the director of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group and the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) at the Qualcomm Institute (UC San Diego's branch of California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology).