Marcelo Caetano received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from UPMC Paris 6 University/IRCAM in 2011 under the supervision of Xavier Rodet, then head of the Analysis/Synthesis group at IRCAM.

Nina Sun Eidsheim writes about voice, timbre, race, and materiality. She is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Duke University Press, 2019); co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (Oxford University Press, 2019); co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press; recipient of the Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship, the UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, and the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship