Ten Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships, Setting Stony Brook Record

Eric Lemmon
Home Town: Cleveland, Ohio
PhD candidate, Music Composition, Department of Music
Departmental advisors/research mentors: Margaret Schedel, Judith Lochhead, George Fisher, Matthew Barnson, Perry Goldstein, Dan Weymouth, Ben Tausig

Lemmon’s research in Switzerland will focus on developing a computer music system that will explore the politics of audience participation. The system will interpret text messages and tweets from an audience through natural language processing and then sonify the results. The resultant musical work will allow audience members to interact with one another and shape the course of the work, as well as serve as a commentary on different forms of governance.