Jacob Walls
Adjunct Instructor
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Dr. Jacob Walls studied at Williams College (B.A., music and philosophy), the University of Oregon (M.M. music composition, M.A., music theory), and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., music composition, 2021), where his dissertation consisted of an orchestral work titled ​Like When You Look as well as an essay on characteristics of post-1987 music in which groups of instruments act as one in the manner of a super-instrument. His music has been presented by SEAMUS, B​​​​owerbird, the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, June in Buffalo, and soundSCAPE, among others. He presented papers on dissonant counterpoint in the music of Louis Andriessen at the Music Theory Society for New York State and on the status of music-theoretical claims themselves at a Joint Meeting of the AMS and SMT Music and Philosophy Study Groups. Recent projects include Frayed, a work for tenor saxophone and fixed stereo electronics recorded by Matthew Levy (of PRISM Quartet) and released on XAS Records in 2020, and Lurking Beyond Thought, a work for mixed chamber ensemble and soprano voice based on a text by Clarice Lispector and performed by TAK Ensemble (NYC). He also maintains several open-source Python packages, including music21, a toolkit for computer-assisted composition and musicology.​​
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