Scott Petersen
Senior Lecturer at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Petersen is a Senior Lecturer and composer who blends academic rigor with hands-on experimentation in electronic and improvisational music. With a DMA in composition and over a decade leading Yale’s Open Music Initiative and music technology labs, he designs open-source hardware and software for creative practice and teaches computer music in the Computing and the Arts program. His output spans orchestral scores, site-specific installations, film soundtracks, and live laptop improvisation using custom-built interfaces, reflecting a rare combination of traditional composition and DIY electronics. He founded community-driven projects like El MuCo and FridayNightThing, curating collaborative performances that foreground live coding, interactive art, and audience engagement. Known for demystifying music technology, he routinely runs workshops that free artists from proprietary toolchains and seed reproducible, open workflows. Based in New Haven, he brings an interdisciplinary practice that equally serves scholarship, pedagogy, and public-facing creative production.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MM, Music Composition, MM, Music Composition at Peabody Conservatory of MusicDMA, Music Composition - Digital Emphasis, DMA, Music Composition - Digital Emphasis at Eastman School of Music
Spanish
Github Skills (29)
puredata10
synthesis10
midi10
sequencer10
audio10
sound-synthesis10
computer-music10
music10
composition9
ide9
supercollider9
synth9
programming-language8
letter5
imap4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scottericpetersen/FMGen-Quark
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 18 pushes in 4 months
scottericpetersen/scottericpetersen
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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