Mark Goldstein’s multifaceted career lies at the intersection of music, computer science, and artificial intelligence. This interview describes His early life in New York, his foundational studies in percussion and computer science at Johns Hopkins University, and his graduate work at Stanford’s CCRMA focusing on automatic music transcription.
Goldstein details his diverse professional background, including roles in early AI development at Syntelligence and IntelliCorp, and pioneering digital audio workstation engineering at Integrated Media Systems. A central focus of the interview is his extensive collaboration with electronic instrument designer Don Buchla. Together, they refined and performed with the spatial Lightning wands and conceptualized the Marimba Lumina, an innovative electronic percussion controller.
The interview concludes with Goldstein reflecting on his silent film accompaniment work with Dennis James and his internal musical advocacy while employed at Google.
Interviewed by Chris Garcia on 2018-10-19
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Catalog number: 102740444
Acquisition number: X8814.2019
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