{"id":179,"date":"2020-02-24T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/tpolashek\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:52:22","slug":"tpolashek","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/tpolashek\/","title":{"rendered":"Polashek, Tim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Timothy Polashek writes in a variety of media and styles, including vocal, instrumental, electro-acoustic music, text\/sound compositions, and interactive performance systems. His music has been performed in Hong Kong, Brazil, Moscow, and other European countries, including international festivals such as the International Computer Music Conference, International Intermedia Festival, and the Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts. His work can be found on Wood and Wire, published by Albany Records, and Electric Music Collective albums Incandescence and Defiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research projects in audio synthesis and text\/sound music are published in the Journal of the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music of the United States and the Leonardo Music Journal, published by MIT Press. Interactive and computer music by Polashek is referenced and discussed in The Oxford History of Western Music encyclopedia published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns faculty-accolades is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>D.M.A., Columbia University, 2002<br>M.A., Dartmouth College, 1996<br>B.A., Grinnell College, 1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Specialization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Music technology<br>Electro-acoustic music<br>Composition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to Music Technology<br>Audio Recording Technology<br>Music CognitionInteractive Music Systems<br>Computational Sound Synthesis and Digital Signal Processing<br>Music Theory<br>Music Appreciation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4406,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"academic_division":[30,4,32],"class_list":["post-179","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Polashek, Tim - Transylvania University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/tpolashek\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Polashek, Tim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Timothy Polashek writes in a variety of media and styles, including vocal, instrumental, electro-acoustic music, text\/sound compositions, and interactive performance systems. 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