About Speaker

Jill holds a bachelor’s degree in applied physics from Stockton University and a master’s degree in theoretical physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She studied classical piano since early childhood, and currently studies violin. She joined the Physics Department at Skidmore College in 1992, teaching courses in musical acoustics, physics, electronics and music synthesis. In addition to her work in music synthesis, Jill has also produced two physics education videos – Falling Bodies and Floating Bodies, and published a children’s book Adventures in Atomville: The Macroscope. Her most current project, Atom Tones, has attracted attention from many disciplines for its innovative approach to physics and music by creating musical tones and scales from atomic spectra. She is also writing a textbook on musical acoustics, tentatively titled Sound & Music: A Music Synthesis Approach to the Science of Sound to be published by Springer Nature. Jill is a member of executive committee for the New York section of AES as well as a member of the ASA technical committees in Musical Acoustics and Education.