Discrete/Continuous: Music and Media Theory after Kittler

ALEXANDER REHDING is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Music and Monumentality (Oxford University Press, 2009), and a monograph on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for OUP's Oxford Keynotes series (forthcoming in 2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Music Handbooks Online series, and was awarded the 2014 Dent Medal.

GUNDULA KREUZER is Associate Professor of Music at Yale University. Her monograph Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera is forthcoming from the University of California Press. Other publications include her award-winning Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and her edition of Verdi’s chamber music for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (University of Chicago Press, 2010). She has served as reviews editor for Opera Quarterly and in 2015–16 was an Italian Academy Fellow at Columbia University.

PETER McMURRAY is a musicologist and media artist. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he is completing a book and film project on sound and Islam in Turkish Berlin. He is coeditor of a special issue of Twentieth-Century Music on magnetic tape recording (Spring 2017). Other research interests include histories of sound technology, the physiology of hearing, and the current refugee crisis.

SYBILLE KRÄMER is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, specializing in questions of media. She is a founding member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques, and is especially known for her work in the research group “Image—Writing—Number.” She is the author of numerous books, including Medium, Messenger, Transmission (Amsterdam University Press, 2015). A member of the German and European Research Councils and of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg, she holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Linköping (2016).

ROGER MOSELEY is Assistant Professor of Music at Cornell University. He is the author of Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (University of California Press, 2016) and of articles on topics ranging from eighteenth-century keyboard improvisation to contemporary technologies of musical recreation. He is also active as a collaborative (forte)pianist.