Deanna Chun

I am a computer science major and music composition minor at Vassar College. Over my college studies, I’ve worked in a variety of different programming languages, frameworks, and IDEs, with a strong aptitude for learning and being able to pick up any new technologies for the given task at hand. I specialize in object oriented programming and have additionally worked with functional programming, and I have an understanding of testing and debugging code.

My music background consists of 8 years of piano, some percussion, music theory, and composition. I took lessons for 4 years where I was classically trained and learned to read sheet music, then took theory for college coursework that gave me a framework for analyzing musical passages and forms. I’ve previously played for concert band and high school, and am a member of my college’s wind ensemble. For composition, I’ve written music both electronically and through traditional scoring, gaining understanding of various music technology tools.

I have a strong interest in the intersection of music and technology. One of my more recent projects involved using Music21 in Python and MusicXML files in order to find motifs within a piece. This involved making a definition of a motif that could be found, finding a motif candidate in the score, searching the rest of the piece, and doing that repeatedly till the end of the piece. I have also worked a bit in digital signal processing to create a synthesizer using JUCE for C++ that has saw waves, filters, and an envelope.