Curriculum vitae


 Mark Saccomano         

mark.saccomano@uni-paderborn.de

Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar
Universität Paderborn / Hochschule für Musik Detmold
Hornsche Str. 39 | 32756 Detmold | Germany


EDUCATION

Columbia University - Ph.D. in Music    2020
Columbia University - M.Phil. in Music   2017
Columbia University - M.A. in Music   2015
California State University, East Bay - B.A. in Music   2013
University of California, Los Angeles - M.A. in Applied Linguistics   1994
University of California, Berkeley - B.A. in Linguistics, Magna cum laude   1986

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Domestic Beethoven: Digital Studies of Hausmusik Arrangements   2020 – 2023
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Paderborn / Hochschule für Musik Detmold
Developer and Researcher for digital musicology project in collaboration with Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Oxford University e-Research Centre, and RISM Digital Center. Collaborated on developing data models for musical content for use with Linked Data in web annotations. Contributed to design and proudction of prototype for musicologists to access, analyze, and annotate digitized resources across diverse archival collections.


Serge Prokofiev Archive   2017 – 2019
Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Created XSLT style sheets to transform digitized records of holdings to Columbia RBML standards. Utilized GIS software to create visualizations of holdings derived from catalog metadata. Developed an online digital collection, integrating Jekyll, MEI, and Verovio, to showcase sketchbook manuscripts with encoded transcriptions for playback.


FAB-Musiconis: French-American Bridge for Medieval Musical Iconography   2017 – 2018
Columbia University and Paris-Sorbonne University
Cohort member of digital humanities training program cataloging and editing image records for a database of medieval representations of musical instruments and performance.


Digital Centers Internship Program   2016 – 2017
Columbia University, Digital Music Lab
Researched and reported on methods of retrieving and processing digitally encoded music scores, focusing on MusicXML, Python scripting for Music21, and XSLT transformations for archival metadata.


PUBLICATIONS

“Modeling Music for Digital Scholarship: Sounded Objects, Notated Objects, and Data Objects.” In Beethoven in the House: Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements, edited by Christine Siegert. Bonn: Verlag Beethoven-Haus (forthcoming).

Lewis, David, Elisabete Shibata, Mark Saccomano. et al. 2022. “A model for annotating musical versions and arrangements across multiple documents and media.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (2022): 10-18. doi:10.1145/3543882.3543891

“The Timbre of Tone, the Texture of Space: An Embodied Approach to the Atmospheric Modulations of Éliane Radigue.” Journal of Sonic Studies 20 (2020).

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Presentations

“Selective Encoding: Reducing the Burden of Transcription for Digital Musicologists.”
Mark Saccomano, Lisa Rosendahl, David Lewis, Andrew Hankinson, Johannes Kepper, Kevin Page, Elisabete Shibata. Encoding Cultures: Joint MEC and TEI Conference 2023, Paderborn, Germany, September 4–8, 2023.

“What Affect Means for Music Analysis: Examining Texture in Steve Reich’s Minimalist Works,” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), “Nach der Norm: Musikwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert,” Berlin, 28 September 28–October 1, 2022.

“The Domestic Beethoven Annotator App: A Tool for Sharing and Publishing Musicological Scholarship on Digital Resources“. Talk prepared for “Domestic Beethoven” project discussion at Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), “Nach der Norm: Musikwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert,” Berlin, September 28–October 1, 2022.

“Modeling Music for Musicologists: A Linked Open Data Approach”
Mark Saccomano, Elisabete Shibata, David Lewis, Andrew Hankinson, and Kevin Page, Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), Tokyo, July 27, 2022.

“Chaos and Coherence: The Effects of Timbre on the Perception of Space”
8th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music & Philosophy Study Group (RMA MPSG), London, July 8, 2022.

“Beyond Mechanical Sound: Discovering and Understanding Emergent Repetition in Minimal Music”
Eighth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Bowling Green, Ohio, May 5, 2022.

“Deciphering Encoded Music: Increasing Access to Open Data Resources”
Panel co-chair and organizer, Digital Humanities 2020 (DH2020), with Natalia Ermolaev and Anna Kijas, Ottawa, July 2020.

“MEI and Verovio for MIR: A Minimal Computing Approach”
MEC2020 Music Encoding Conference, with Natalia Ermolaev, Tufts University, Medford, MA,
May 2020.

“Dangerous Music: Analysis, Criticism, and the Aesthetic Object.” Paper presented to the Music Cognition and Music & Disability Interest Groups, Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, November 7–10, 2019.

“Altered Space: Miles Davis, Teo Macero, and the Role of the Studio in Spatial Perception”
GSIM 2019 (conference) presented at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 2019.

“The Archive as Collaborative Learning Space”
Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2018 (DH2018), with Natalia Ermolaev, Mexico City, June 2018.

“The Archive as Data: Using Data Tools to Explore the Holdings of the Serge Prokofiev Archive”
New Directions in Prokofiev Research (symposium), with Natalia Ermolaev, Columbia University, New York, April 2018.

“Moved by the Music: Encounters in Space with the Electroacoustic Sounds of Ryoji Ikeda”
Sounding Out the Space (conference), Dublin Institute of Technology, November 2017.

“Reich, Repetition, and Ricoeur: Four Organs as a Bridge to Time and Narrative”
Theorizing Music Temporality, Columbia University, New York, May 2014.

Panels

Moderator. “This Data in the Header: Encoding, Reuse and Standardization of Metadata in the Context of TEI and MEI.” Joint MEC TEI Conference: Encoding Cultures, Paderborn, Germany, September 2023.

Discussant. “The Domestic Beethoven Project.” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), Berlin, September 28–October 1, 2022.

Discussant. “Beethoven’s Large-Scale Works Outside the Concert Hall: Toward a Digital Representation of Domestic Arrangements.” 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society: Music Across Borders (IMS), Athens, August 22–26, 2022.

Organizer. “Deciphering Encoded Music: Increasing Access to Open Data Resources.” Digital Humanities 2020 (DH2020) [session cancelled], with Natalia Ermolaev and Anna Kijas, Ottawa, July 20–24, 2020.

Posters

Shibata, Elisabete, David Lewis, Mark Saccomano, et al. “A New Conceptual Model for Musical Sources and Musicological Studies.”. Music Encoding Conference (MEC) 2022, Halifax, May 19–22, 2022.

Ermolaev, Natalia and Mark Saccomano. “The Archive as Collaborative Learning Space.” Digital Humanities 2018 (DH2018), Mexico City, June 26–29, 2018.



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Universität Paderborn

Montclair University

Columbia University

University of California, Los Angeles


INVITED TALKS

“The Unknown Beethoven: Studying Domestic Arrangements of Symphonic Works with Digital Tools”
Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik im Dialog: Aktuelle Perspektiven der Digital Humanities (Lecture Series), with Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert, Fachrichtung Musikwissenschaft der Universität des Saarlandes / Trier Center for Digital Humanities der Universität Trier, January 17, 2022.

“Using Digital Tools to Analyze Domestic Arrangements of Beethoven’s Symphonies: Refining the Concept of the Musical Work”
Forschungskolloquium, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Paderborn und der Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Germany, October 27, 2020.

“Introduction to the Digital Humanities”
Public Humanities Fellowship Program, New York Council for the Humanities (Humanities New York), December 2018.

“Las humanidades digitales en la investigación musical: el uso de herramientas de geovisualización en la exploración del Archivo Serguéi Prokófiev”
Facultad de Música, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, June 22, 2018.



GRANTS

COST Short Term Scientific Mission Grant, 2024
EarlyMuse – Working Group 2: Sources
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, Barcelona
€ 2,500

Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage (NFDI4Culture), 2024
“Text and Video Documentation for the Domestic Beethoven Annotator App”
€ 10,000


AWARDS AND HONORS

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellow   2019
Columbia University

Nicholas and Andrew Serwer Fund Award   2018
Columbia University Department of Music

Tuition Scholarship   2018
University of Victoria, Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Dean’s Fellow   2013 – 2019
Columbia University

Dean’s Diversity Fellowship   2013
Columbia University

Honors Program in Linguistics   1985 – 1986
University of California, Berkeley


TECHINICAL SKILLS

MEI, XSLT, XQuery, XML, HTML, EAD, oXygen, OpenRefine,
Git, Node.js, Vue.js, JavaScript, Linked Data, XQuery,
Jekyll, Liquid, Markdown, ArcGIS, MySQL, Omeka



LANGUAGES

Spanish: Excellent reading skills, intermediate conversation
Italian: Excellent reading skills, basic conversation
German: Reading skills, basic conversation