Research

Purdue Music is home to research and creative work in composition, performance, music technology, sound, music learning, and cultural practice. Faculty, students, and staff connect musical ideas with technical exploration, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public-facing creative projects.

Featured Research and Creative Scholarship

Current and recent work in Purdue Music includes LAMP projects in audio, music technology, soundscape studies, immersive audio, generative audio, DSP, and creative coding; Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun's AI-supported work in music performance and learning; and Christopher Cayari's research on mediated musical performance, online music communities, informal music learning, and representation in music education. Faculty work also spans composition, jazz studies, ethnomusicology, performance, pedagogy, and public-facing creative scholarship.

Laboratory for Audio and Music at Purdue (LAMP)

The Laboratory for Audio and Music at Purdue (LAMP) brings together music, audio, and technology through research and creative work in sound analysis and synthesis, AI, sonification, acoustic ecology, human-computer interaction, composition, performance, and education. Recent projects include Citygram and Spaces | Places | Traces, community-centered airplane noise research, The Music of Airplanes, Sound AI, immersive audio, and interdisciplinary music technology projects. For more information, visit the LAMP project page.

AI, Performance, and Music Learning

Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun's interdisciplinary work explores how AI can support music performance, practice, and pedagogy. These projects connect Purdue Music expertise with collaborators in Engineering and other campus partners through computer vision, audio analysis, motion capture, robotics, and human-centered technology. For details, visit the Purdue AIM Vertically Integrated Project page and the AI for Musicians website.

Music Education, Digital Media, and Communities

Christopher Cayari's research focuses on mediated musical performance, YouTube, informal music learning, virtual communities, video games, online identity, and marginalized voices in music education. His work helps connect music education with digital culture, social media, community, and representation.

• Christopher Cayari faculty profile
• If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives about Racial Identity in Music Education

Faculty Research and Creative Scholarship

Music faculty pursue active creative and scholarly work in performance, pedagogy, composition, electroacoustic music, jazz, music technology, ethnomusicology, and interdisciplinary research. These activities include commissioned works, recordings, festival and conference presentations, public performances, community engagement, and collaborations with artists, ensembles, and researchers across Purdue and beyond.

• Renee Anderson - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Brad Bodine - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Ellen Bulow - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Harry Bulow - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Christopher Cayari - music education, digital media, online communities, and mediated musical performance
• Drew Cox - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Nadya Dubikovsky - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Jarrard Harris - jazz history, performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Allen McCullough - composition, commissions, recordings, and new music
• Dwight Monical - performance, pedagogy, and creative practice
• Tae Hong Park - composition, music technology, soundscape research, AI-supported sound analysis, immersive audio, and interdisciplinary creative practice
• Monte Taylor - music technology, generative audio, DSP, machine learning, and electroacoustic composition
• Nolan Warden - ethnomusicology, Afro-diasporic and Indigenous musics of Latin America
• Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun - AI-supported performance learning, cello, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary research

Research Spaces

LAMP Studio (Elliott 33) supports listening, production, music technology research, immersive audio, and LAMP-related creative work.

Image to add before publishing: LAMP Studio photo with two LED lights (2.lamp-studio.HEIC).

LAMP Recital Hall (Elliott 15) is a recital hall and classroom supporting performances, research presentations, recordings, and interdisciplinary music technology projects.

Large Practice Room and Tracking Room (Elliott 31) supports recording, tracking, and networked audio work and is connected to LAMP Studio via Dante.

Music Computing Lab (Pao B189) supports music computing, audio research, and interdisciplinary creative technology work.