I am an assistant professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, teaching and researching music theory and cognition with a focus on ‘groove’ and ‘feel’ in music. This website is a simple place for me to host my music and work.

Visit my faculty page: https://www.butler.edu/jordan-arts/undergraduate-programs/music/faculty-staff/music-theory-faculty/

Before Butler, I worked at SUNY Potsdam, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University.

Formerly, I taught sax, clarinet, piano, drums, and theory, as well as classroom music in London, England. I also played sax in The Kings of Soul and a few big bands (previously, I ran the University of London Big Band).

In addition, I am involved in engraving and publishing music for sax ensembles.

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Some of my work:

A qualitative study that offers a multidimensional definition of groove in Psychology of Music:

A collaborative data report that collects together a large amount of timing data on drum grooves in Empirical Musicology Review:

An interview with Dan Charnas about his 2023 book Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm: