Biography
Paul Nauert
1966–2019
After growing up in Columbia, Missouri, Paul earned bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music theory from Columbia University. Paul was a beloved teacher, and a rare two-time awardee of UCSC’s distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award. His scholarly work was diverse and impactful, ranging from the perception of rhythmic complexity to harmonic structure, and his computational approaches to the organization of arbitrary time sequences have had a major impact on machine listening technology. A CD of his compositions, A Distant Music, was released by New World Records in 2015; the disc’s liner notes, by Professor Amy Beal, illuminate his approach to composing and the ways it changed in the context of his illness.
(taken from unattributed blog post at UC Santa Cruz https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/08/nauert-in-memoriam.html)
After growing up in Columbia, Missouri, Paul earned bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Ph.D. in music theory from Columbia University. Paul was a beloved teacher, and a rare two-time awardee of UCSC’s distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award. His scholarly work was diverse and impactful, ranging from the perception of rhythmic complexity to harmonic structure, and his computational approaches to the organization of arbitrary time sequences have had a major impact on machine listening technology. A CD of his compositions, A Distant Music, was released by New World Records in 2015; the disc’s liner notes, by Professor Amy Beal, illuminate his approach to composing and the ways it changed in the context of his illness.
(taken from unattributed blog post at UC Santa Cruz https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/08/nauert-in-memoriam.html)