List of electronic music producers with a doctorate
This is a list of electronic music producers who hold a doctorate, including DJs, composers and live performers working in electronic music. Inclusion requires (1) an existing English Wikipedia article on the person, (2) that article describing them as working in electronic music, and (3) a reliable source for the doctorate. Honorary doctorates are excluded.
List
Name |
Doctorate |
Institution |
Year |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kode9 (Steve Goodman) |
PhD, philosophy |
University of Warwick |
1999 |
Scottish DJ and producer; founder of Hyperdub; author of Sonic Warfare (2010). |
Dan Snaith |
PhD, mathematics |
Imperial College London |
2005 |
Canadian musician; records as Caribou and performs DJ sets as Daphni. |
Matmos (Drew Daniel) |
PhD, English |
University of California, Berkeley |
2007 |
Member of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth; professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. |
Max Cooper |
PhD, computational biology |
University of Nottingham |
2008 |
Belfast-born, London-based producer and live performer. |
Holly Herndon |
PhD, composition |
Stanford University (CCRMA) |
2019 |
American composer and producer, based in Berlin. |
Bottin (Guglielmo Bottin) |
PhD, musicology and media studies |
University of Milan |
2024 |
Italian DJ and producer. |
Floating Points (Sam Shepherd) |
PhD, neuroscience and epigenetics |
University College London |
n/a |
British producer and DJ. |
References
:Category:Lists of electronic musicians :Category:Lists of people by academic degree