Team

Team

Gershon Wolfe, Ph.D.

Gershon Wolfe builds symbolic objects that generate musical phrases with dense texture and a wide dynamic range, on the belief that beautiful music need not be difficult to create or to play. Graph rewriting, symmetry, and self-similarity let an elaborate system collapse to a few elegant blocks. Those blocks are the basis of his algorithmic work and of the topological-scene grammars inside Contour.

He holds a B.S. in chemistry from UCLA, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Washington, and a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular dynamics at UCSF. He received the Royal Dutch Shell Fellowship and the NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Award.