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Visiting Scholars & Artists
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Graduate Music Faculty
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David Bernstein
Professor of Music
Music 264
510.430.2025, davidb@mills.edu
Office Hours: Monday, Friday 1:00-2:30
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 244
510.430.2331, bischoff@mills.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 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
Luther B. Marchant Chair
Intermedia Arts Program Head
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
Music 243
510.430.2330, cbmus@mills.edu
Office Hours: TUesday 1:15-2:30
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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James Fei
Assistant Professor, Electronic Arts
Music 231
510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00-2:30
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia
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Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Department Head
Music 135
510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Composition and songwriting; 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 265
510.430.2332, nalinig@mills.edu
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 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
Music 276
510.430.2200, rmitchell@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 8:00-10:00 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
Music 232
510.430.2187, maggi@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 5:15-7:15 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Interdisciplinary electroacoustic composition and performance; the creation of works for electronic and visual media; music recording and editing
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India Cooke
Lecturer, Spring
Music
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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Pauline Oliveros
Visiting Professor, Fall
Music
510.430.2200, paulineo@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition, the advancement of women in music and all the arts, frog ponds
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Sandra Soderland
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Music
510.430.2171, ssoderl@mills.edu
Office Hours: by appointment only
Professional Interests: Early music, literature and performance practices; organ and harpischord
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