School of Music

Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday to retune habits of our ears through sound, text, light, and movement. Her studies of the guqin, a Chinese zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature, have... Continue reading »

Roxane Chenault, Operations Manager in the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has worked within the School of Music since 1996.  She studied business and marketing at Los Angeles Valley College.  She works closely with our deans, faculty, staff and students.  One should see... Continue reading »

Bob Clendenen was born in 1961 in Atlanta, GA. He received his B.M. Cum Laude from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts. Bob has worked with a wide variety of artists from grammy award winning jazz bassist Charlie Haden... Continue reading »

Perry R. Cook is professor emeritus of CS (also Music) at Princeton University, where he founded the SoundLab, and co-founded the MacArthur Fellowship funded Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). He received his PHD in EE from Stanford University, then served as Technical Director, then... Continue reading »

Joey De Leon, Jr. was born sometime in the 1960’s in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City but was primarily raised in the Bronx and North Bergen, New Jersey, the oldest of 2 children. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was... Continue reading »

Michele DeJesus, Administrative Assistant in the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has worked within the School of Music since 2006.  She holds a B.S. in International Business from California State University Los Angeles. She works closely with our faculty and students.  One... Continue reading »