About John F.
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Department Coordinator
Jan, 2014 - PresentBoston University
I am the departmental liaise between Boston University's Musicology and Ethnomusicology department, and the greater Boston University community. My main position is to coordinate live music events with academic discussion of music and culture, design promotional materials, and implement social media strategies using Twitter, Periscope, and Facebook.
Music Research Specialist
Jan, 2014 - Sep, 2014Boston Medical Center
Collaborated with medical anthropologists and medical students to assess the efficacy of music therapy programs in an urban medical setting.
Instructor
Sep, 2013 - PresentBoston University
I have designed syllabi and led graduate-level seminars on music and politics, and music and culture. BU MH620 - Minimalism (Spring 2016), my most recent course, focused on minimalist "classical" music from the 1960s, and its relations to the visual arts, film, culture, politics, and social events of the time. It also explored minimalism as an aesthetic today, looking at the role minimalism in the plastic and musical arts had in film scoring, architecture, interior design, and poetry / marketing techniques.
Teacher
Sep, 2012 - Aug, 2014Chelsea Community Schools
Designed and led private and group classes on introductory and advanced guitar techniques; songwriting; and music appreciation. Students ranged in age from 11+, and from a variety of backgrounds and with different musical tastes.
Guitarist
Jan, 2007 - Nov, 2007Sailspointstarward (band)
1 national tour, 1 album (EP).
Guitarist
Apr, 2006 - Oct, 2006Gray Lines of Perfection (band)
2 national tours, 1 album (Evening Came and Morning Followed)
Owner / Head Engineer
Jun, 2001 - PresentSubterranean Recording Studios
Owner and head audio engineer for Subterranean Recording Studios, a New Jersey-based 800 sq. ft. recording facility. Recordings done with artists featured on Columbia Records, Roadrunner Records, BET, and Coca Cola commercials. Fluent with: Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Sonar (PC), iZotope RX.
Education
BM, Contemporary Writing and Production
Jan, 2008 - May, 2012Berklee College of Music
PhD, Ethnomusicology
Sep, 2014Boston University
MM, Musicology
Sep, 2012 - May, 2014Boston University
BM, Composition
Jan, 2008 - May, 2012Berklee College of Music
Affiliations
American Federation of Musicians
Jan, 2007A labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada. Founding in 1896 as the successor to the "National League of Musicians," the AFM is the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians.
American Musicological Society
Sep, 2012The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly, the New York Musicological Society (1930-1934).
Society for Ethnomusicology
Sep, 2012SEM is a U.S.-based organization with an international membership of approximately 1,750 individuals dedicated to the study of all forms of music from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives. We examine music as central to human experience throughout space and time, and explore its profound relationship to cognition, emotion, language, dance, visual arts, spiritual belief, social organization, collective identity, politics, conflict and peace, economics, the physical body, and mental health. Through SEM programs and the work of our individual members, we seek to advance academic and public understanding and appreciation of music as a cultural phenomenon of unlimited variety and as a resource that is fundamental to the well being of individuals and communities.
Audio Engineering Society
Jan, 2008Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society, Inc. (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. The membership largely comprises engineers developing devices or products for audio, and persons working in audio content production. It also includes acousticians, audiologists, academics, and those in other disciplines related to audio. The AES is the only world-wide professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology.
Languages
Icelandic
Limited Proficiency
Thai
Professional Proficiency
German
Limited Proficiency
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