Dard Neuman

Dard Neuman is the Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music and Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004, he joined the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005.  He has studied the sitar for almost four decades. His research interests concern the musical cultivation, transmission and performance of Hindustani music in twentieth century North India as well as the role of music in social action. He has published articles for SEM and Asian Music and his book, Hindustani Music, Heterodoxy and Modern Traditions is forthcoming with Wesleyan University Press.

ARI Supported Project: 

The “intercultural and open source notation/transcription” project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with scholars in algorithmic composition and computational media to move a prototype notation system onto an accompanying software environment.  As part of my research over the last six years, I developed a transcription and notation system to represent a musical tradition, Hindustani music, that is taught orally and does not lend itself to staff notation. This current project seeks to incorporate this analytical model into what will be an open-source interface to transcribe and access transcriptions that are analytic, descriptive, and prescriptive.