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David Bernstein
Professor of Music
Department Head
Lisser Annex F
510.430.2025, davidb@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-4:00
Professional Interests: John Cage, American Experimentalism, avant-garde music and aesthetics, Arnold Schoenberg's tonal theories, post-tonal theory and analysis, twentieth-century music literature, the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century harmonic theory
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John Bischoff
Assistant Professor, Composer
Music 44
510.430.2331, bischoff@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-3:00
Professional Interests: Composition; electronic music for solo performers, computer network bands, and instrumental ensembles; alternative tuning systems; electro-acoustic instrument construction
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Chris Brown
Professor of Music
Intermedia Arts Program Head
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
Music 43
510.430.2330, cbmus@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:30
Professional Interests: Composition and improvisation, interactive electronic music, musical instrument building and new instrumental resources, sound installations, algorithmic composition, twenty-first century performance practice, world music
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Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Luther B. Marchant Chair
On sabbatical 2007-2008
Music 3
510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition; the performance of both composed and improvised music; collaboration in the fields of theater, dance, and film; improvisational pedagogy
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Nalini Ghuman
Assistant Professor of Music
Music Rm. B
510.430.2332, nalinig@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and 20th-century western classical music and opera; solo and chamber piano performance; ethnomusicology (particularly North Indian vocal music and Welsh folk music); cultural studies; post-colonial perspectives on musical orientalism, nationalism, and cross-cultural musical exchange
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Roscoe Mitchell
Distinguished Milhaud Professor of Music
Lisser Annex B
510.430.2200, rmitchell@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Composition and the performance of composed and improvised music
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Maggi Payne
Professor of Music
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
On leave Spring 2008
Music 32
510.430.2187, maggi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, recording engineer, music editor, creator of many works for electronic and visual media
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India Cooke
Lecturer, Spring
Fine Arts Annex 106
510.430.2171, indiac@earthlink.net
Office Hours: by appointment only
Professional Interests: African American music and culture, violin performance, improvisation
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James Fei
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music 33
510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:30
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia
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David Kwan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music Studio
510.430.2171, dkwan@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-1:00
Professional Interests: Sound art and installation, experimental film and video, interdisciplinary practices and interrelated media
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Sandra Soderland
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Music
510.430.2171, ssoderl@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-2:30
Professional Interests: Early music, literature and performance practices; organ and harpischord
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