Sourcetone Team
To achieve our mission to drive next-generation music innovations for health and wellness, Sourcetone has attracted the talents and visions of a diverse group of researchers and advisors from such institutions as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, New York University’s Music Technology Program, Albert Einstein Medical School, and Columbia University’s Music Department. Sourcetone develops the talents and visions of our team of composers, music theorists, behavioral and medical scientists, physicians, music programmers, and engineers to redefine the boundaries of music possibility.Directors
Malcolm Goodman, Founder, President, Co-Chair of the Sourcetone Advisory Board, and Director of Music Library and Web/Product Design.Malcolm has created Sourcetone's Select Music Library and is the director of Sourcetone's music library and design visions. He is a self-taught student of electronic music in the areas of production/composition, sound design, mastering, and DJing. Malcolm produced and hosted an independent techno radio show in 1998 on The Womb, Florida¹s first purely electronic music radio station, before turning to more free-form and experimental sound structures. Malcolm later collaborated as a sound designer/composer with Flash web designer Joshua Davis on OnceUponAForest.com and Praystation.com, also creating Flash-based animation CD-ROMs and DVDs. In 2001, Praystation.com was selected as the Golden Nica winner at the Prix Ars Electronica. Also, as a sound designer in collaboration with Joshua Davis, he worked to create custom animations for corporate sites such as Diesel.com and Nike.com, as well as audio-visual installations shown in the Design Museum and ICA Museum in London, the New Museum in Tribeca, P.S.1 in Queens, the Princeton Art Museum in Princeton, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, and Fort Asperen in the Netherlands. Later, he served as the Senior Electronic Technician and Creative Audio Developer for the Computer Music Center at Columbia University. Here, the Digital Sound Environments Project brought electronic music to medical, educational, and cultural settings. Malcolm has served in such diverse roles as composer and sound designer/editor for many other web sites, theatrical productions, medical grand round CDs, public installations, and has traveled globally as a DJ of multiple musical styles. He has also won globally recognized awards for his compositions, as well as his DJing. Malcolm released his first album for Schematic Records in Miami in 2003 and his most recent release was on a compilation for Merck Records.
Dr. Jeff Berger, Ed.D., Founder, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, Co -Chair of the Sourcetone Advisory Board, and Director of Research, Administrative Planning & Activities.
Dr. Berger has created the concept for Sourcetone’s research-based Music Classification System Technology® evaluative system and related delivery systems which redefine the boundaries of music’s capability onto emotional and behavioral enhancement. He has been involved in investigating time-course of emotional judgements of musical stimuli, the effects of lyrics on emotional arousal, and the effects of musical features on emotionality. Dr Berger has been in private practice in Southampton, New York for over 25 years working towards enhancing the mental health and educational growth of those he has been privileged to serve. He has consulted for schools and universities in areas of student evaluation, curriculum development, program development, and pedagogy. Previously, Dr. Berger has served as Visiting Professor, London University; Lecturer, Clark University; Lecturer in Special Education and Principle Program Evaluator for Learning Support Services at the Massachusetts State College System; and Visiting Scientist at the Tavistock Institute, London. He has been involved in upper-level management training, leadership training, recruitment, and program development. Dr. Berger has taught in public education and contributed to teacher training, model classroom, and special needs programs, as well as collaborations in setting up “Freedom Schools” during New York City teacher strikes and civil unrest in Bedford Stuyvesant, NY.
Dr. Robert Rowe, Ph.D., Director of Research and Product Development, Sourcetone. Dr. Rowe is currently Professor, Director of the Music Composition program, and Vice Chair of the Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions in the Steinhardt School at New York University.
In 1991, he became the first composer to complete the Ph.D. in Music and Cognition at the MIT Media Laboratory. From 1978 to 1987 he lived and worked in Europe; associated with the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the ASKO Ensemble of Amsterdam, and the IRCAM in Paris, where he developed control level software for the 4X machine. In 1990 his composition Flood Gate won first prize in the “live electroacoustic” category of the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition. Dr. Rowe’s music is performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan and is available on compact discs from New World, Roméo, Quindecim, Harmonia Mundi, and the International Computer Music Association. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of New Music Research, and on the board of directors of the Electronic Music Foundation. Dr. Rowe’s books/CD-ROM projects Interactive Music Systems (1993) and Machine Musicianship (2001) are available from the MIT Press.
Luis Araten-Castillo, MBA, Director of Marketing, Sourcetone.
Prior to joining the Sourcetone team, Luis served as a Marketing Manager for CBS Radio for eight years and Director of New Markets for Omoma Coffee, based in El Salvador. He graduated with a B.A. from Berklee College of Music before working as an engineer at The Hit Factory in New York City. Luis holds an MBA in Marketing and Global Economics from The NYU Stern School of Business.
Research Team
Dr. Juan Pablo Bello, Ph.D., Senior Music Analyst and Classification Research Developer, Sourcetone.
Dr. Bello is currently an Assistant Professor in the Music Technology Program at New York University. He has done extensive research on the subjects of automatic music transcription, the mid-level representation of musical audio and applications to information retrieval and audio processing. He was a key member of projects on Online Music Recognition and Searching (OMRAS) and Semantic Interactions with Musical Audio Contents (SIMAC), and has been in the organizing committee of International Conferences in Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 05 and 08) and Digital Audio Effects (DAFx 03). Dr. Bello regularly publishes and reviews scientific articles for a number of international conferences and journals, and is principal investigator in two multi-year projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Molly Holder, M.M., Senior Web and Flash Developer, Research Consultant, Sourcetone.
Molly has a B.A. in Music Cognition from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Music Technology from New York University, where she studied the integration of psychology and cognition with interface design and music information retrieval. She comes to Sourcetone with experience ranging from traditional music composition to advertising and music production. Molly worked as an advertising consultant in applications of psychological and cognitive studies in the creation of salient commercial music.
Chad Wagner, M.M., Software, Audio-Engineering Applications, and Web Development, Sourcetone.
Chad is currently adjunct instructor with NYU's Music Technology Program, where he completed his Masters degree. He has served as an IT manager, mastering engineer, software developer, performing musician, computer programmer, and graphic designer. Chad studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, while working in the area as a jazz pianist.
Kevin Larke, B.S., Sound/Music Research, Software, Classification, and Web Development, Sourcetone.
Kevin has broad experience as a programmer and developer in application areas ranging from digital signal processing and music information retrieval to robotics and electronic circuit design. Kevin taught in and was Chief Systems Engineer for the Music Technology program at New York University; worked with a series of New York City-based media and technology startups including Soundball, Three-Legged Dog, and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots; and has been working with Sourcetone since its inception. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he works with Shlomo Dubnov and Miller Puckette.
Arefin Huq, B.A., Music Analysis, Classification Research, and Product Development, Sourcetone.
Arefin is currently working towards his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at New York University. He has worked on the STUMP Stereo Vision Project and as a Senior Programmer Analyst where he was responsible for training and directing software development teams. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University.
Jonathan Berger, M.A., Assistant Researcher, Organizational and Product Development, Sourcetone.
Jonathan has completed his Master’s Degree in Social-Organizational Psychology – Leadership at Columbia University-Teachers College. He presently works as the Human Resource Coordinator at the online advertising agency Direct Agents. He has experience working in Organization Development/Human Resource at NBC, Sandra Hartog and Associates, and Synergos, a non-profit global poverty and social injustice organization. He holds a B.A. in Human Development from Cornell University where he was recognized as a Cornell Presidential Research Scholar and later served as a research assistant in the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab. Jonathan was awarded a Columbia University Research Grant for research on The Relationship Between the Effects of Music on Student Learning and Short-Term Memory, Sensation-Seeking Tendencies, Self-Esteem, and Musical Training.
Gene Kogan, B.S., Classification Research and Development, Sourcetone.
Gene received a BS in applied mathematics from Columbia University in 2008 where he studied machine learning and recommendation algorithms. He has previously worked as a research assistant at the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia, an analyst at FreshDirect, and as an intern and engineer at Harvestworks.
Andy Sarroff, M.M., Analysis, Classification Research and Development, and Product Development Consultant, Sourcetone.
Andy Sarroff received a BA in Music at Wesleyan University and a Masters in the Music Technology program at NYU, where he received the Dean’s Grant for Student Research and was awarded the Music Technology Graduate Student of the Year Award. His research focused on modeling the perceived spaciousness of musical recordings. Andy has assisted software implementation and design for the Army Research Laboratory’s Environment for Auditory Research facility in Aberdeen, MD and has been a consultant to Sennheiser Research North America. He has worked as the Chief Recording Engineer at RPM Recording Studios and recorded, mixed and mastered hundreds of albums.
Zeeshan Lakhani, M.M., Genre Classification, Uploads, Sourcetone.
Zeeshan has a BA from the College of Santa Fe, where he studied Moving Image Arts/Film. Zeeshan is completing his Master’s Degree in Music Technology at New York University. His own work deals with sound/visual and web-related interaction, music information retrieval and data visualization.
Matt Bukaty, B.A., Genre Classification, Uploads, Sourcetone.
Matt received a B.M. in Music Composition from the University of North Texas and is currently working on his Master's in Film Scoring at New York University. During his studies, Matt has become familiar with a wide variety of music that led to composing works in a variety of genres including orchestral, chamber and choral, as well as electroacoustic music and music for film.
Sourcetone supported research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School. Sourcetone Grant on the Integrated Areas of Digitial Sound/Music, Human Behavior, and Brain Function.
Dr. Schlaug presently serves as the Director of the Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Chief of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease, and Director of Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery at BIDMC. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology with major research interests that include the neurobiology of music, neuroplasticity of musicians, and innovations in singing and music to facilitate recovery from brain injuries or neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Schlaug has written over 125 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in his area of expertise. Dr. Schlaug’s research team includes musicians, neurobiologists and cognitive neuroscientists among them Dr. Psyche Loui, Dr. Marc Bangert, Justin Bachorik, and Charles Li.
Sourcetone Scientific, Music, Medical, and Business Advisory Board
Professor Fred Lerdahl is a member of the Sourcetone Advisory Board concerning sound/music, human behavior, and brain function. Professor Lerdahl, composer and music theorist, is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (with linguist Ray Jackendoff) and Tonal Pitch Space, both of which model musical listening from the perspective of cognitive science. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music is a cornerstone of the field of music cognition and is acknowledged in 2008 by three conferences in honor of the 25th anniversary of its publication. Tonal Pitch Space, which quantifies and extends the scope of the earlier book, received the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award and the 2003 Wallace Berry Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Music Theory. In 2007 Professor Lerdahl served as the Mind/Brain/Behavior Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Harvard University. He has frequently collaborated and consulted with cognitive scientists. His most recent major publications are The Capacity for Music: What Is It, and What’s Special About It? co-authored with Ray Jackendoff, and Modeling Tonal Tension, co-authored with the cognitive psychologist Carol Krumhansl. Professor Lerdahl’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by many major orchestras and chamber ensembles in the United States and Europe.
Dr. Howard Kerpen, M.D., is a member of the Sourcetone Advisory Board concerning medical systems and applications. Dr. Kerpen is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a community-based practicing physician on Long Island, NY, and a voluntary Attending in the Department of Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Kerpen functioned at a number of divisions of Long Island Jewish Medical Center as the Director of Nephrology at the Queens General Hospital, Director of Medicine at the Manhasset Division, and Coordinator of Medical Education for the Department of Medicine. Dr. Kerpen has been cited in New York Magazine’s New York’s Best Doctors; Castle & Connolly’s Best Doctors in New York; and Woodward & White’s Information When it Matters Most –Best Doctors for both Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He has appeared as a medical consultant on 20-20, Good Morning America, and WPIX; and has been quoted in Reuters and Newsday. Dr. Kerpen has received nine separate awards for teaching and contributions to medical education from the LIJ Department of Medicine. He presently formed and serves as Director of the Committee for Innovations in Medical Education at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Kerpen serves as Vice-Chairman of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center Performance Improvement Coordinating Group and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Medical Quality. He lectures extensively on both Medical Informatics and Medical Quality.
Joseph B. Lerch, M.S., J.D, is a member of the Sourcetone Advisory Board concerning patent and trademark initiatives, and business methods. Joseph Lerch, Esq. practice includes counseling, licensing and enforcement related patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, patent prosecution and litigation involving electronic communications that includes computer hardware and software, medical instruments and engineering processes, and business methods. Joseph is the author of Publication of Pending U.S. Patents and Other New Provisions to The Patent Act, and The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (February 2000). He had lectured on behalf of the Practicing Law Institute on Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution.
Lewis Solomon is a member of the Sourcetone Advisory Board concerning business and market planning. Lewis Solomon served as Executive Vice-President of Patricof Company Inc., an international investment fund and Senior Vice President of General Instrument Corporation. He currently serves as Director on the boards of Anadigics, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductors; Harmonic, Inc., a manufacturer of digital and fiber optic systems; and Lantronix, Inc., a manufacturer of internet conductivity software. His principle responsibilities have included corporate strategy, worldwide sales and marketing, and venture-capital investments.