Mark Saccomano
Associate Researcher
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Saccomano is an associate researcher and music theorist with a PhD from Columbia University and nine years of experience at the intersection of digital musicology, pedagogy, and archival practice. Based at Paderborn University, he develops Linked Data–driven tools for music annotation and comparison, enabling researchers to retrieve, share, and annotate digitized musical resources. His background combines rigorous music-theory scholarship with hands-on technical work—designing visualizations for the Serge Prokofiev Archive and transforming archival metadata for research use. He has taught broad undergraduate music courses at Columbia and Montclair State, bringing classroom experience to digital-humanities tool design. Trained also in linguistics (UCLA, UC Berkeley), he brings interdisciplinary methods to problems of musical representation and data interoperability. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who blends theoretical depth with practical tooling to make musical sources more discoverable and analyzable.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Arts (BA), magna cum laude, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), magna cum laude, Linguistics at UC BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, German, Italian
Github Skills (16)
music9
notation8
pypi8
music-composition7
nodejs7
svg7
javascript6
encoding6
music-notation5
python5
jekyll5
musicxml5
toolkits4
selectable1
id31
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mss2221/zagreb
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
mss2221/spademo
Jul 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 72 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 1 month
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