Electronic Musical Instrument Design

Music 141 / Engineering Science 95me
(formerly Music 63)

Instructor: Paul D. Lehrman • Mon, Wed 4:30-5:45 pm
Fall semester 2019

Click HERE for a video interview with Professor Lehrman from

Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science Education Through Teaching Electronic Musical Instrument Design

by instructor Paul Lehrman and student Todd Ryan,
presented at the
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005

Spring 2019 Final Projects
Click on the student's name in bold to see the full report

The Djjjembe

Danielle Blelloch
James Hoder
Joshua Schellinger
Jeremy Yang

The Glide Rule

Erick Orozco
Yekwon Park
Benny Roover
Paige Shephard

Musical Drive Console

Brandon Gray
Tim Holt
Emma Panullo
Will Yorton

Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble

Hear about our 2018 concert
featuring the world premiere
of Henry Cowell's 1931
Rhythmicana
and an interview with
international superstar Gotye!

Videos from our concerts

Project reports from past years…

2018

The Wonderstick

Ben Machlin
Will Mairs
Edward Simendinger

Conversations…
around the Kitchen Table

Anna Bartlett
Ben Papp
Spencer Perry
Jake Zaslav

Backbeat

Robert Hrabchak
Nate Meier
Ian Rumsey

P.R.I.D.I.

Robert Hendler
Jacob Jaffe
Dan Meyer
Allen Zhou

	2017
iColtrane Ben Averill Liam Brady Dylan Hudson Rohan Joshi	The Windstrument Luca McDermott Jack Vallerie Greg Warns Charles Winston	Tonnetz Erich Hochwald Will Luna Ronna Ten Brink Nathan Watts

	2016
The Glass Harp Jackson Clawson Tyler Klein Rachel Marison Morgan Rivers	The Dubsteps (2.0) Joe Cirone Thomas Coons Jeremy Marcus Eamon Wick	The Musical Desk Parker Heyl Nhu Q. (Ty) Nguyen Paloma Ruiz-Ramon Peter Wu
	2015
The Cubes of [Whatever] Cody Chen Michael Ferdico Jacob Katsiaficas Kurt Oleson	The Sonic Pyramid Gregory Bento Andrew Jarowenko Thomas Klimek Michael Nuzzolo	Extra: The New WIRELESS Spiral of Fifths Ruben Sonz-Barnes
	2014
The Xenomod Jasper Degens Nate Grossman Eli Jarzombek Kyle Savidge	The Piezo Kalimba Solomon Krevans Brian McLaughlin Chris Penny Nick Picariello	The Spiral of Fifths Josh Fishbein Ruben Sonz-Barnes Andrew Whitehead
	2013
The Rainflute Case Jemison Tom Cahill Meredith Packer	The Jazz Hands Drew Zeiba Liam Cassidy Saul Sparber	The Electric Slide (a/k/a The Lehremin) Ben Silver Nick Adolph Jake Lazarus
	2012
The Modular Composition Arcade Ben Ewing Eli Kohlenberg Jeffrey Prescott Scott Winther	Loop Loop Revolution John Bradley Scott Jacobson Joo Kang	The Boxitron 5,000,000 Neil Foxman Nick Harmon Andrew Schweig Jonathan Wolf
	2011
The E-Ccordian Kristen Ford Nick Fuchs Zach Meyer Lloyd Olson	The Laser Bass Anit Das Peter Edwards Nate Typrowicz-Cohen Andrew Kim	The DJ Hands Tyler Andrews Brian Bresee Patrick McKelvy Matt Seaton