Please note: Scott has left the "Information Science + Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
I am a composer of instrumental and vocal music. My most recent works are T120, a piano trio composed for the Horszowski Trio (2021) and a Quintet for Soprano Saxophone and String Quartet (2019). My current project is a quartet for flute and three strings, commissioned by the Electric Earth Concert Series.
My teaching centers on technical aspects of music, including classes on music theory, composition, and transcription. I also co-teach a course called "Music and the Brain" with Tobias Overath, a colleague in Psychology and Neuroscience. This class explores the physiology and psychology of hearing and music cognition, a study that has enabled me to reconsider ideas I know well from an entirely different perspective, with the result that "old" ideas have become "new" again. More marginal interests include some aspects of music technology: live sampling and signal processing, sonification, and computer-assisted composition.
Aside from these professional interests, I enjoy working with machine tools as well as motorcycling on back roads in North Carolina.
| Office Location: | Duke University Department of Music, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665 |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-3307 |
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| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/~scott1 |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
| D.M.A. | Yale University | 1991 |
| M.A. | Yale University | 1989 |
| MMus | Yale School of Music | 1982 |
| B.M. | Eastman School of Music | 1980 |
Current projects: Work for Chamber Orchestra commissioned by a consortium of eight schools of music, Work for the Meehans/Perkins Percussion Duo
I compose instrumental and vocal music as well as work with electronic media. My most recent compositions Alarm Calls for wind ensemble, String Quintet, and Twitter Music for two percussion and electronics.