Jeff Albert

Jeff Albert is a musician, music technologist, and educator. He joined the faculty of the School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology in August of 2023, and served in a variety of roles at Loyola University New Orleans from 2010-2023. In May of 2013, he became the first graduate of the PhD program in Experimental Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University, where his teachers included Stephen David Beck and Jesse Allison, and he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs). He also holds degrees from Loyola University – New Orleans, where he studied with Dick Erb and John Mahoney, and the University of New Orleans, where he studied jazz with Ellis Marsalis, Harold Battiste, Ed Petersen, and Steve Masakowski. He has also served on the faculty of Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of New Orleans. Jeff’s areas of research include improvisation, performance paradigms for live computer music, and audio pedagogy. Jeff has given presentations at the conferences of the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States, the Symposium for Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras, the International Society for Improvised Music, the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, and the inaugural Symposium on Integrated Composition Improvisation and Technology. His article “Improvisation as Tool and Intention: Organizational Approaches in Laptop Orchestras and Their Effect on Personal Musical Practices” was published December of 2012 in Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation.