Department of Theory
Schulich School of Music
McGill University 

Marcelo M. Wanderley was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1965. He holds a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, an M.Eng. degree in integrated analog circuit design from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie—Paris VI, Paris, France, on acoustics, signal processing, and computer science applied to music. From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Wanderley was with the Analysis/Synthesis Team at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM), Paris, France, where he studied ways of designing new musical instruments based on computer-generated sound. Specifically, he focused on performer-instrument interaction and its applications to gestural control of sound synthesis. He is currently Assistant Professor and Music Technology Area Chair, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QB, Canada. He has published several book chapters and papers and is the coeditor, with Prof. M. Battier, of the electronic publication Trends in Gestural Control of Music. He was also the Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Organized Sound on mapping strategies for real-time computer music. His main research interests include human–computer interaction, input device design and evaluation, gestural control of sound synthesis, and musical acoustics. Dr. Wanderley was the Chair of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME03) that was held at McGill University in May 2003.