As a first-generation college student, Seth Cluett, assistant director of Columbia’s Computer Music Center and a lecturer in the music department, knows what it’s like to enter a space and feel as if he doesn’t belong. Because of that, Cluett has always been interested in finding ways to make the possibilities of electronic music less intimidating to students. “They come into the Computer Music Center for the first time, and they see our huge historical analog synthesizers, but they have never touched a piece of hardware.”
Cluett, a 2021-22 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award winner and an artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs, recently teamed up with Hewlett-Packard to work on a project aimed at lowering the barriers for students to work with electronic music equipment. He discussed the project with Columbia News, along with his research and what he’s teaching this semester.
Q. How did the Hewlett-Packard collaboration come about?
A. I have been working closely for a long time with Suzanne Thorpe, the current Mellon postdoctoral teaching fellow in the music department, on a number of grants to support accessible and inclusive technical studio design. As a leading facility in our field, and the oldest electronic and computer music research facility in the United States, the Computer Music Center is trying to develop methods to reduce the gatekeeping, imposter syndrome, and fear people feel in spaces built for high-end technology research.
We were awarded a grant through the Provost’s Teaching and Learning Emerging Technology grant program, and Parixit Davé, CUIT’s emerging technologies director, introduced us to the research leads at HP working on immersive technology. HP got excited about our goal of increasing opportunities and access for underrepresented groups in technology education, and we’ve been working closely with them ever since.
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