A. Professional Preparation Diana Dabby Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Olin Way, Needham, MA 02492-1245 Phone: (781) 292-2551 E-Mail: diana.dabby@olin.edu Ph.D. 1995 MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science S.M. MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science M.F.A. Mills College Music B.Eng. City College of New York Electrical Engineering A.B. Vassar College Music B. Appointments 2005 present: Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Music, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Music Program Director 2000 2005: Founding Faculty and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Music, Olin. 2000 Present: Research Affiliate, MIT Lab for Information and Decision Systems Jan May 2002: Adjunct Graduate Faculty, The Juilliard School Jan Dec 2000: Tufts University Fellow, funded by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 1998 1999: Visiting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tufts University 1999: Visiting Lecturer in Music, Tufts University 1998: Visiting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT 1997 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Middlebury College 1997: MIT Artist in Residence 1997: Tufts University Summer Teaching Fellow 1995 1997: Postdoctoral Associate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT C. Selected Publications Dabby, D.S. Improved Method of and Apparatus for Computer-Aided Generation of Variations of Music and other Sequences of Symbols, Including Variation by Chaotic Mapping. Provisional patent application submitted to the U.S. Patent Office, July 2010. Dabby, D.S.: Creating Musical Variation, Science, April 4, 2008, 320, (5872), pp. 62-3. Invited Perspectives article. Dabby, D. S. Nabokov, Lepidoptera, Dynamics, peer-reviewed journal paper for the Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2003. Dabby, D. S. Leonardo as Artist, Scientist, Engineer, peer-reviewed journal paper for the Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2002. Dabby, D. S. Heroes for the Renaissance Engineer: Leonardo, Nabokov, Bach, and Borodin, peerreviewed journal paper for the Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2001. Dabby, D. S. A Chaotic Mapping for Music and Image Variation, Proceedings of the Fourth Experimental Chaos Conference, 1998. Dabby, D. S. Method Of And Apparatus For Computer-Aided Generation of Variations of a Sequence of Symbols, such as a Musical Piece, and other Data, Character or Image Sequences, U.S. Patent No. 5, 505,144 awarded February 25, 1997. February 2010 1 d.s. dabby
Dabby, D. S. Musical Variations from a Chaotic Mapping. Chaos: A Journal of Nonlinear Science. 6: 95-107, 1996. D. Selected Commissions and Performances Dabby, D. S. 11, part of a larger Tufts University commission. World Première Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University (Joanna Kurkowicz, violin, and John McDonald, piano) April 29, 2009. Dabby, D. S. A Fire s Tale commissioned by pianist Martha Schrempel on the occasion of her Temple University Final Doctoral Recital. World Première March 2008 at Boyer Hall in Philadelphia. Dabby NPR radio Interview/Performance, New Space Promotes Intersection of Art and Science. Weekend Edition piece highlighting, in part, the combination of engineering and music to produce a new technique for musical variation. Invention for Two Hands (Diana Dabby, pianist and composer) aired as excerpt. Taped November 13, 2007; broadcast December 29, 2007. Capps, D. and Bradley, L. Con/cantation: (chaotic variations), a computer-assisted theme and variations performance project. Based on the chaotic variation technique presented in Musical Variations from a Chaotic Mapping (Dabby 1996). Sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 2007. Dabby, D. S. Aerial Silk for solo piano to accompany aerial silk performer Matthew Brouillard. Sorenson Center for the Arts, on behalf of the Sharing Foundation. December 2006. Dabby, D. S. Momento for 21 instruments. Sorenson Center for the Arts. May 2006. Dabby, D. S. September Quartet, a five-movement work for voices, winds, brass, percussion, acoustic guitar, violin and piano, commissioned by the Tufts Music Department for the 150 th Anniversary of the founding of Tufts University, 2005. NPR member station WBUR Interview/Performance, Variations on Chaos Math and Music of Diana Dabby. Taped April 23, 2004; broadcast July 9, 2004. Dabby, D. S. Invention for Two Hands, World Première, Center for the Arts, Middlebury, Vermont, 1998. Dabby, D. S. Trio Sonata, commissioned by the Kani-Schrempel Duo for Musicfest, Bethlehem, PA, 1997. Dabby, D. S. Islamorada, commissioned by the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. World Première, Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, 1996. Solo piano concerts in New York's Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and in Budapest, Hungary and Hong Kong, among other venues on both coasts, 1980 1998. Ensemble concerts, including World Premières, at Boston's Jordan Hall, Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, with additional performances on the East and West coasts, 1990 2004. E. Invited Lectures Invited Speaker, Ted x Olin College, Musical Variation via Chaos, December 20101. Invited Speaker, Skidmore Union Network, funded by an NSF Advance PAID grant, March 2010. Invited Speaker, Yale University Women in Science, October 2009. Invited Speaker, National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science (NSAWS), presented by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. February 2009. February 2010 2 d.s. dabby
Invited Speaker, MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Colloquium, April 2008. Invited Lecture, Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering (Jones Seminar Series on Science, Technology, and Society) April, 2007. Invited Concert/Lecture, City College of New York Honors Program, Schools of Engineering and Liberal Arts/Sciences, March 2007. Invited Guest Lecture, Harvard University Engineering Sciences 147: Idea Translation, November 2006. Invited Concert/Lecture, Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, December 2004. Invited Concert/Lectures at Princeton University, MIT, Cornell University, Tufts University, Dartmouth College, Mills College, Middlebury College, International Information Theory Symposium at MIT, UMass Dartmouth, Sorenson Center for the Arts, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, FIRST Place, 1998 2001. E. Recent Conference Presentations, Symposia, Advisory Boards Invited Panelist, National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science (NSAWS), presented by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. Interdisciplinary careers: carrying science across fields, Feb. 7-9, 2009. Invited Plenary Speaker, 2007 International Conference on Complex Systems. Engineering Chaos and Musical Variation, Oct. 28 Nov. 2, 2007. Invited Speaker, National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) 81 st Annual Meeting. New Dimensions: Avant-garde Thinking in Educational Technology, Nov. 19-22, 2005. Invited Panelist, National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science (NSAWS), presented by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. Interdisciplinary careers: carrying science across fields, April 8-10, 2005. Invited consultant, Engineering Vision Workshop sponsored by the School of Engineering, University of North Florida. Superior Engineering Education to Drive Economic Development in Northeast Florida, March 10-12, 2005. Invited Panelist, Siemens Foundation Beautiful Minds, Beautiful Music symposium at Weill (Carnegie) Recital Hall. Event sponsored by the Siemens Westinghouse Science Competition to examine the connection between science and music, June 17, 2004. Articles in Science, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday and other print media. Presentations Heroes for the Renaissance Engineer; Leonardo as Artist, Scientist, Engineer; Nabokov, Lepidoptera, Dynamics at annual ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) conferences, 2001 2003. Invited participant, Princeton University workshop on Engineering, Humanities, and the Arts. November 2-3, 2003. Member, Advisory Board, The Bridge to Engineering program at Florida Atlantic University, a National Science Foundation sponsored program, 2003-04. February 2010 3 d.s. dabby
F. Synergistic Activities Fifty-two arrangements of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Saint-Saens, Mussorgsky, Holst, Bartok, Copland, Bernstein, and Lee Jisu for various combinations of instruments ranging from 10 to 20 players (2002 present). D.S. Dabby, pianist and composer. Piano recording (August 2008) of Aerial Silk (Dabby 2006) for documentary The Charles River: Headwaters of Invention produced by Joseph Hunter (Remember Productions 2008) with initial screening by the Needham Historical Society (March 2009). Edwards, David. Art-Science: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation. Chapter 2 ( Process ) describes the work behind Musical Variations from a Chaotic Mapping. Harvard University Press, 2008. Reviewed in Nature, January 17, 2008. F. Curricular Development Founder and developer of the Music Program at Olin (2002-present). Responsibilities include providing orchestration, composition, theory, and performance skills towards all facets of the program; organizing and rehearsing concerts for Olin events and programs (10-14 events/year); ensuring year-to-year continuous improvement and innovation. Appointed Music Program Director (2010-present). Founder and developer of the Olin Conductorless Orchestra (2002-present), an ensemble minus conductor featuring instrumentalists in leadership and collaborative roles. The Olin Conductorless Orchestra is the only college conductorless orchestra in the country. Responsibilities include reorchestrating symphonic works (chosen by the students) for the orchestra s eclectic combination of instruments; providing constructive commentary on a weekly basis; coaching/rehearsing/guiding from the side or up front, as needed; bringing in external musicians to provide biweekly coached sectionals, as well as external feedback to the entire orchestra each semester. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin ECE course Digital Signal Processing, 2009- present. Together with Christopher Lee, developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin ENGR course The Engineers Orchestra I: Acoustics, Waves, Vibrations, 2007. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for The Engineers Orchestra II: Theory, Orchestration, Composition, 2007. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin ECE course Signals and Systems, 2003-07. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin AHS course The Wired Ensemble: Instruments, Voices, Players, 2003-present. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin AHS course Heroes for the Renaissance Engineer: Leonardo, Nabokov, Bach, Borodin, 2004-present. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin AHS course Musical Design and Aesthetics, 2003. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin AHS course Music Performance, Music Composition, 2002. Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Olin prototypes Nabokov, Butterflies, Moths, and Dynamic Systems, 2002, and Leonardo as Artist, Scientist, Engineer, 2001. February 2010 4 d.s. dabby
Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Juilliard course (and earlier for Tufts University course), Music, Art, Literature: Intersections with Science, 2002, (1999). Developed, taught, and created curricular materials for Musical Variation in Composition seminar, Tufts University Music Dept., 1999. F. Service Leslie University, member Doctoral Committee for thesis at the interface of art and science that focuses on scientists who have strong talents in music, 2006 present. Reviewer, Chaos: A Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2006, 2009. Current Olin committees: ECE Program Group, Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHS) Program Group, Committee on Student Academic Performance. Supervisor, Passionate Pursuits, in conjunction with the Office of Student Life: ~10-20 passionate pursuits in music each year, 2002 present. Faculty co-curricular, in conjunction with the Office of Student Life: Olin Does the BSO : 2002 present. February 2010 5 d.s. dabby