Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
Lectures, seminars, and podcasts available online — spanning computers and music, computational musicology, medieval music history, and music theory.
A profile segment highlighting MIT's Teaching With Digital Technology Awards, featuring this year's winner, Cuthbert who created computational tools, including Artusi, to elevate the standard of teaching at MIT.
Cuthbert discusses how music instruction and the use of digital tools like Artusi adapted to remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic.
An introduction to Cuthbert's MIT Course Computational Music Theory and Analysis, covering the scope and approach — algorithms for music theory, encoding, corpus studies, search and similarity, machine learning, and music generation, all using Python and the music21 toolkit. Cuthbert's full course (30+ lectures) is freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.
A lecture on how technology developed by Cuthbert is transforming music theory. Recorded for online learners, covering fundamentals and analysis.
An interview with Myke on the Python Podcast.__init__ series about music21 — how the toolkit works, what problems it solves for computational musicologists, and how Python made it possible to analyze millions of musical notes at scale.
A podcast recording of Cuthbert's lecture delivered to MIT Comparative Media Studies, creating a theory of how minimalist music interacts with information theory to
A pre-concert lecture for the Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, introducing the life and music of the 15th-century English composer John Dunstaple (Dunstable) and how his innovations in harmony introduced the musical Renaissance.
A Covid-era pre-concert lecture for the Alamire Foundation on early Flemish polyphony and manuscript sources, delivered remotely in 2020.
Cuthbert's public lecture explaining new medieval musical manuscripts and fragments he helped MIT acquire and how they represent music technology of their time.