About Michael
Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert is a leading researcher on how computation, AI, and music intersect.
He is the co-founder and inventor of Artusi, the industry leader for teaching of music theory and aural skills online. From 2006–2024, Cuthbert was a professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). (email) At MIT he created its Music Technology program and first laboratory (cuthbertLab) where he invented music21, a software toolkit widely regarded as revolutionizing the use of computers in musicology, corpus studies, and music theory. Myke also led the Programs in Digital Humanities (DH Lab), the largest undergraduate-focused lab at MIT.
Michael Cuthbert attended Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree summa cum laude (highest honors), a masters, and the Ph.D. He received the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, a Villa I Tatti Fellowship, and Harvard's Radcliffe Fellowship. In addition to his time at MIT, Cuthbert has been a visiting professor at Boston University, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College.
Outside of computational music, Cuthbert has lectured and published on fragments and palimpsests of the late Middle Ages, set analysis of Sub-Saharan African Rhythm, Minimalism, and the music of John Zorn.
In 2024, Cuthbert departed MIT to be with his wife, Dr. Elina G. Hamilton who is professor of music at the University of Hawaii.
(Cuthbert has been cited as Myke Cuthbert, Michael Cuthbert, Michael Scott Cuthbert, Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert, and Michael Asato Cuthbert; all refer to the same author.)
Computation & AI with Music
Medieval & Other Musicology
Other Pages & Projects
Compositions: including Vasarely Patterns for the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Fonts for
musicology: Ciconia (14th/15th c.) and ClarFinger (clarinet
music).
Lectures on the web
enChanting: Musical Artifacts in Unlikely Places, lecture March 3, 2009
Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music, podcast of a lecture to Comparative Media Studies at M.I.T.
The Music of John Dunstaple, iTunes podcast from a pre-concert lecture for Blue Heron Renaissance Choir.
Just for fun...
Mondrian meets Finding Aids in a map of books in my former apartment.
Javascript Timer, especially useful for timing Rubik's Cube times.
Musicology Buzzword Bingo, useful for AMS meetings
Automatic New Musicology Paper Generator based on the Dada engine
The Musicology of the Fallows Catalog
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