Alex Ruthmann

S. Alex Ruthmann is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the intersection of music, education and technology. Prior to his appointment, he served on the music education faculty at Indiana State University and taught general music at Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He currently serves as President of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), past Chair of the Creativity special research interest group of the Society for Research in Music Education, as co-editor of the International Journal of Education & the Arts, and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of the British Journal of Music Education and Journal of Music, Technology and Education. His current research explores new media musicianship, computational creativity, the creative processes of audio engineers and producers, and the development of music technologies for us in school- and community-based programs for children. Dr. Ruthmann is currently Co-PI on a $450k National Science Foundation grant exploring the teaching of computational and musical thinking. Active in social media, you can follow his curated posts on music learning, teaching and technology on Twitter at @alexruthmann.

See also:
http://performamatics.org
http://experiencingaudio.org
http://mendeley.com/profiles/alex-ruthmann