Curriculum Vitae
Jonathan G Secora Pearl, PhD
Office:
Perceptral LLC
403 Sixth St.
Racine, WI 53403-1217
Tel: (262)898-1258
Fax: (262)898-8287
email: sendto)jonathan[dott]pearl(@Perceptral.net
Home:
1436 Monroe Ave.
Racine, WI 53405-3248
Cell: (805) 259-9665
Home: (262) 995-0738
Current Position
President/Director of R&D, Perceptral LLC
Education
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 2005-August 2007.
PhD, Music & Cognitive Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2005.
Committee: Michael Beckerman, Musicology; Pieter van den Toorn, Music Theory; Cornelia Fales, Ethnomusicology; Wallace Chafe, Linguistics.
Dissertation: The Music of Language: the Notebooks of Leoš Janáček.
Research focus: music & language; speech prosody, voice/sound morphing.
MMus, Vocal Performance, May 1997.
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University–Houston, Texas.
Contracts & Grants
U.S. Navy
SBIR topic N08-149 Phase I—Aug 2008 ($79,989): APE Segmentation for Variable Speed Speech Synthesis.
SBIR topic N08-149 Phase I Option—Jun 2009 ($69,994): APE Segmentation for Variable Speed Speech Synthesis.
SBIR topic N08-149 Phase II—Expected Jan 2010 ($750,000): APE Segmentation for Variable Speed Speech Synthesis.
U.S. Army
SBIR topic A09-067, Phase I—Selected Sep 2009 ($70,000): User Control for Content Reconstruction in Speech Compression.
Fellowships, Honors & Awards
Fulbright Commission
Fulbright Student Grant–Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2003-2004.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities Research Assistant Fellowship, 2002-2003.
Czech Fund Grant, 2002-2003; 2000-2001.
Graduate Dissertation Proposal Fellowship, Summer 2002.
Special Graduate Student Travel Grant, August 2002.
Assistant Director, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, 2001-2002.
Dean’s Fellowship, 2000-2001.
Sickenger Fund Grant, 2000-2001.
Rice University
Shepherd School Scholarship, 1994-1997.
Greenways & Foundation for a Civil Society, Sedlec-Prčice, Czech Republic
Fellow, August 1996.
Teaching
Chapman University, Orange, California
MUS 101–Introduction to Music, Fall 2007.
MUS 122-Musical Cultures of the World, Fall 2007.
MUS 461/PSY 461–The Psychology of Music, guest lecture: “Music, Language, and Cognition,” Fall 2006.
University of California, Santa Barbara
MUS 594A–Introduction to Musical Acoustics, Guest Lecturer, Fall 2005.
LING 271A–Research Orientation, Guest Lecturer, Fall 2005.
MUS 276A–Studies in Ethnomusicology, Guest Lecturer, Fall 2005.
INT 200C–Cognitive Science Seminar: Music, Language & Cognition, Spring 2002.
MUS 226–Notation & Transcription in Ethnomusicology, Guest Lecturer, Spring 2002.
MUS 112E–History of Music, Romantic era, Guest Lecturer, Winter 2001.
New York University
V71.0140–Words and Music: The Song as Mixed Medium, Guest Lecturer, Fall 2004.
Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado
MUS 120–Music Appreciation, 8 sections total: Fall 1998-Summer 2000.
MUS 173/174–Studio Voice, 7 sections, Summer 1999; 9 sections, Summer 2000.
Publications
“Eavesdropping with a Master: Leoš Janáček and the music of speech,” Empirical Musicology Review, vol. 1, no. 3, July 2006.
“The Case for Speech Melodies, Reopened,” Czech Music, May 2004.
“Cognitive vs. Physical Entrainment,” invited commentary on M. Clayton, R. Sager, and U. Will, “In time with the music: The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology,” ESEM CounterPoint 1, 2004.
“The Kinship of Music & Language,” Brno Studies in English 10, 2004.
“Opět k Janáčkovým nápěvkům mluvy” [Janáček's speech melodies reconsidered], Opus Musicum, April 2004.
“Leoš Janáček: Cosmopolitan,” Genre 23, 2002.
Plenaries & Keynotes
“The Infant Sound Environment Project: ontogeny as window to phylogeny,” International Conference on Music and Evolutionary Thought, Durham, United Kingdom, June 2007.
Invited Lectures
“Speech Prosody & Music: Transcription, Perception, and Meaning,” Linguistics Colloquium, University of California–Santa Barbara, May 2006.
“The Music of Language: the Notebooks of Leoš Janáček,” Linguistics Circle, University of Colorado at Boulder, November 2005.
“Speech Prosody for Linguists and Musicologists,” Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2004.
“Janáček and the Unanswered Question,” Bard Music Festival: Janáček and His World, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, August 2003.
“Music & Language: Ambiguous Domains,” Linguistics Colloquium, University of California–Santa Barbara, January 2002.
“Music & Language: Parallels and Divergences,” Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences lecture series, University of California–Santa Barbara, November 2001.
Conference Panels
“Historical Perspectives in Music Cognition,” panel organizer/chair, 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Evanston, Illinois, August 2004.
“Evolutionary Musicology,” panel organizer/chair, 17th International Congress, International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August 2002.
“Music & Cosmopolitanism,” panel organizer, 37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: The Cosmopolitan and its Ancient Antecedents, California State University–Long Beach, March 2002.
Conference Presentations
“Varieties of Czech Prosody, a century ago and today,” Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics, Siegen, Germany, March 2007.
“The Perception of Isochrony in Speech and Music,” Rhythm, Time and Temporal Organisation Conference, Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2006.
“Not Awaiting Dolly: Louis Armstrong’s speaking style,” PSC/NC regional American Musicological Society conference, Berkeley, California, May 2006.
“From Russian Circle to Prague Circle,” 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, Evanston, Illinois, August 2004.
“Language as Music: The Case of Leoš Janáček,” Co-author, Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Graz, Austria, April 2004.
“‘Prosím, kolik je hodin?’: The Music of Czech Prosody,” Czech & Slovak Fulbright Commissions Mid-Year Conference, Velké Bilovice, Czech Republic, February 2004.
“A Musical Journey through Language,” International Musicological Conference, Institute of Musical Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, January 2004.
“Hypothetical Universe: a functionalist critique of Lerdahl-Jackendoff,” SMPC 2003, Society for Music Perception & Cognition, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003.
“Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology,” 17th International Congress, International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August 2002.
“Leoš Janáček: Nationalist Cosmopolitan,” 37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: The Cosmopolitan and its Ancient Antecedents, California State University–Long Beach, March 2002.
“Leoš Janáček and the Issue of Meaning,” 20th Annual World Congress, Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences, Washington, DC, August 2000.
Websites
Perceptral LLC corporate portal (http://perceptral.com)
Research Entrepreneur blog (http://researchentrepreneur.blogspot.com)
Music & Language Studies (http://musiclanguage.net)
Popular Media
Interview for program on the Origins of Music, with Ivan Hewitt, BBC 3 Radio, aired August 2007.
Interview for program commemorating the sesquicentennial of Leoš Janá?ek’s birth, with David Gallagher, BBC 3 Radio, aired July 4, 2004.
University & Community Service
University of California, Santa Barbara
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, Board member, 2000-2003.
Vice Chancellor for Research Search Committee, Graduate student representative, 2002-2003.
Graduate Students Association, Vice President for Academic Affairs, 2002-2003.
Graduate Council, Graduate student representative, 2002-2003.
Davidson Library Planning Committee, Graduate student representative, 2002-2003.
Academic Senate, Graduate student representative, 2002-2003.
Monroe County Civic Theater, Bloomington, Indiana, Board member, 1992-1994.
Fundraising & Development
Da Camera, Houston, Texas, fundraiser, 1994-1995.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Monroe County, Indiana, volunteer Big Brother, member of the Fundraising Steering Committee, 1991-1994.
Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana, Telefund Associate, 1991-1994.
Professional Affiliations
Czech & Slovak Music Society: Treasurer since 1998; Member since 1996.
Society for Music Perception & Cognition: Member since 1999.
Linguistic Society of America: Member since 2001.
Applied Voice Input/Output Society: Member since 2007. California chapter advisory board member.
Languages
Native: English
Speaking & Reading: Czech, French, German, Slovak
Reading: Italian, Spanish.
Operas & Musicals
Hänsel & Gretel Witch Santa Barbara, California 2002
Blue Beard King Bobeche Santa Barbara, California 2001
Enoch Arden Philip Denver, Colorado 2000
Annie [Director] Thornton, Colorado 2000
1776 John Adams Littleton, Colorado 2000
Oliver Mr. Bumble Northglenn, Colorado 1999
Le Nozze di Figaro Basilio & Don Curzio Košice, Slovakia 1998
Aïda Messaggero Košice, Slovakia 1998
Baby Fertility Doctor, Professor Weiss Littleton, Colorado 1998
Man of La Mancha Padre Littleton, Colorado 1998
Oklahoma! Andrew Carnes Fort Collins, Colorado 1997
Don Giovanni Don Ottavio (understudy) Opava, Czech Republic 1996
La Bohème Parpignol Opava, Czech Republic 1996
The Fantasticks Matt Houston, Texas 1995
South Pacific Henri & ensemble Bloomington, Indiana 1995
Theater
Pat & Sarah (Maurice Bernhardt) Denver, Colorado 2000
Matters of the Heart (Jorge, Doctor, Psychiatrist, Rabbi) Denver area tour 1998
Catch Me If You Can (Daniel Corban) Littleton, Colorado 1997
Romeo & Juliet [Director] Bloomington, Indiana 1994
Merlin, Wizard Boy (King Vortigern) Bloomington, Indiana 1994
Goethe’s Faust (various characters) Bloomington, Indiana 1994
Othello (Montano) Bloomington, Indiana 1993
Sleeping Beauty (Prince Charming) Bloomington, Indiana 1993
Henry IV–Part I (Ned Poins) Bloomington, Indiana 1992
Recitals
European Fulbright Seminar, Berlin, Germany, March 21, 2004. Milostné Písně [Love Songs] by Antonín Dvořák.
Czech & Slovak Fulbright Commissions, Mid-Year Conference, Velké Bilovice, Czech Republic, Feb 9, 2004. Songs by Antonín Dvořák.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, Feb 8, 1997. Master’s Recital. Songs by Schubert, Dvořák, Smetana, Mozart, and Mudarra, With Holly Dippold, Piano; Paul Orkiszewski, Guitar; and Luke Scanlon, Djembé.
Sedlec-Prčice Town Recital Hall, Czech Republic, Aug 29, 1996. Songs by Dvořák and Janáček, with Jaroslava Klejnová, Piano
International Opera Workshop, Krnov, Czech Republic, Jul 20, 1996. Opera arias, duets, ensembles, with Emily Hamper, Piano; and singers from Canada, USA, Australia & Slovenia.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, Mar 12, 1996. Advanced Recital. Songs by Dvořák, Beethoven, Fauré, Beach, Chadwick, Stradella, Caldara, and Carissimi, with Rosanna Marzaroli, Piano.
