Jane Pirone

Drummer, organist, noise-maker, and wacky instrument tinkerer, Jane Pirone, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Media & Technology at Parsons The New School For Design. In 2005, Jane was the first faculty member to introduce and teach a “Sound Design” course into the Communication Design curriculum at Parsons and has taught many collaboration studios related to radio, sound and music, including the “Visual Music Studio”, which is comprised of an equal mix of Jazz and Parsons students. In addition to her long history as a performing musician and composer, she has experience as an indie-label producer and was the founder of the website, “drummergirl.com” (which was taken down in 2008). Jane studied film music with Martin Marks, sound art with Chris Mann and hardware hacking with Nicolas Collins. Her research interests include the relationship of sound and urban space, sound art, acoustic ecology, and experimental music.