Michael Frengel
Northeastern University
Department of Music
351 Ryder Hall
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Email: m.frengel@neu.edu


EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in music composition, City University, London, expected June 2005
  Dissertation: Process and Form: Perspectives on the application of predetermined systems to sectional forms in music composition
  Advisor: Denis Smalley
  Committee: Denis Smalley, Simon Emmerson, TBD
  
  
• M.A., electroacoustic music, Dartmouth College, NH., USA, 1999
  Thesis: Polyrhythmic Modulation Studies
  Advisor: Larry Polansky
  Committee: Larry Polansky, Charles Dodge, Christian Wolff
  
  
• B.A., electroacoustic music, San Jose State University, CA., USA, 1996
  Advisor: Allen Strange
  Committee: Allen Strange, Brian Belet, Dan Wyman
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Electroacoustic music (composition, analysis, performance), deterministic composition systems, digital signal processing, relationships between instruments and electronics in mixed pieces, music cognition, extended guitar performance techniques.
  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Full-time Teaching Positions

• Academic Specialist, Department of Music, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Fall 2005 - present
  Reponsibilities include: teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in electroacoustics, composition, instrumentation, notation and theory, directing the Electronic Music Ensemble.
  

Teaching Assistantships

• Introduction to MaxMSP, Bregman Studios, Dartmouth College, NH., USA, Spring, 1999
  Responsibilities included: assisting with course activities, holding undergraduate tutorial sessions and organization of a concert at the end of the term.
  
  
• Counterpoint, Music Department, Dartmouth College, NH., USA, Winter, 1999
  Responsibilities included: assisting with course activities, grading of undergraduate homework and monitoring examinations.
  

Scholarly Presentations

• Borrowed Sounds: A symposium on sampling, borrowing, stealing and other facts of musical life. Northeastern University, Boston, MA., USA, March 2007
  
  
• Polyrhythmic Modulation Studies. Northeastern University Research Expo 2007, Boston, MA., USA, March 2007
  
  
• Process music: predetermined systems and form in contemporary music composition. Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 2002
  
  
• Polyrhythmic Modulation Studies. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA., USA, May 1999
  

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE (selected list)

• Software Engineer, Macrovision Corporation, Reading, England, 2002-2005
  Responsibilities included: development and maintenance of an automated test environment and test tools. QA team leader for all Macintosh products. QA team leader for the CDS product, which is one of the largest in the company.
  
  
• Webmaster, International Computer Music Association, 1997-1999
  Responsibilities included: maintainence of the ICMA web site.
  
  
• Senior QA Engineer, Apple Computers, Inc., California, USA., 1995-1997
  Responsibilities included: leadership of test effort for hardware projects, including test plans, hiring, budgeting, liaison between design center and all QA departments.
  

AWARDS

• 3rd Prize, Luigi Russolo 2000 Composition Competition, Varese, Italy
  

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

• Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
  
• International Computer Music Association
  
• American Composers Forum
  
• Sonic Arts Network (UK)
  
• Electronic Arts Focus (UK)
  
• Electronic Music Foundation
  
• Broadcast Music, Inc.
  

DISCOGRAPHY

• And Then, Romina..., Luigi Russolo 2000 CD (Luigi Russolo Foundation, 2001)
  
• Long Slender Heels, Sonic Circuits VII (Innova Records, 1999)
  
• Three Short Stories, CDCM Volume 26 (Centuar Records, 1998)
  
• No Pestering, ICMC96 "On The Edge" (October Music, 1996)
  
• WireFire, Supertronic (Quagmire Records, 1995)
  

PUBLICATIONS

• "Nick Didkovski." New Grove Dictionary of American Musicians.
  
• "Warren Burt." New Grove Dictionary of American Musicians.
  

SOFTWARE (web-released)

• Polyrhythmic Modulation Generator 1.0: Cocoa-based application that calculates tempo transitions for 1-8 voices in a polyphonic texture, and then writes a standard midi file.
  
• SwankTimeDomainDSP 1.0: Cocoa-based development environment for time domain processing.
  
• MaxMSP VST Bundle 1.0: Collection of VST plugin written in Max/MSP.
  
• SwankSpectrogram 1.0: Cocoa-based application that displays AIFF sound files in both time and spectral domains.
  
• SwankTuner 2.0: Cocoa-based application that provides concert pitch, frequency (Hz), midi pitch and midi note equivalents.
  
• SwankTime 1.0: Cocoa-based application that provides millisecond, second, bpm and frequency (Hz) equivalents.
  
• Tuner Conversions Bundle: A carbon bundle containing functions for converting between concert pitch, frequency (Hz), midi note and midi pitch.
  
• TempiCalculator: Application that calculates tempo transitions for 1-4 voices in a polyphonic texture, and then writes either a Csound score file or a standard midi file.
  
• cuePlayer: A Max/MSP patch that allows a performer to trigger sound files using a midi foot pedal (or any other midi input device).
  
• Spectral Suite: A set of FFT-based filters that process SoundHack FFT analysis files.
  

REFERENCES

• Denis Smalley
  Professor, Music Department
  City University, London, England
  d.smalley@city.ac.uk
  
  
• Simon Emmerson
  Reader in Music, Music Department
  City University, London, England
  s.emmerson@city.ac.uk
  
  
• Larry Polansky
  Professor, Bregman Studios
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH., USA
  larry.polansky@dartmouth.edu
  
  
• Charles Dodge
  Visiting faculty, Music Department
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH., USA
  charles.m.dodge@dartmouth.edu
  
  
• Jon Appleton
  Director, Bregman Studios
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH., USA
  jon.appleton@dartmouth.edu
  
  
• Allen Strange
  Professor Emeritus, Music Department
  San Jose State University, San Jose, CA., USA
  strange@bainbridge.net
  

This cv was last updated May 1, 2007.