Office: Couch 209E

Website: Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab

Areas of Research or Creative Practice: Computational musicology, music cognition and psychology, popular music performance and research

Nat Condit-Schultz is a musician, composer, and scientist, specializing in the statistical modeling of musical structure. Working at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Nat conducts research and advises students in the Computational and Cognitive Musicology Lab, serves as the Director of the Graduate Program for the School of Music, directs the rock and pop bands, and teaches courses in research methodology, music psychology, and music production.

Nat completed his doctorate under renowned music scientist David Huron; Nat's research interests include rhythm and tonality in popular music, the perceptual and structural roles of language and lyrics in music, and the music theory of hip-hop. Nat has presented at numerous national and international conferences, both in the humanities (Society of Music Theory) and the sciences (Society for Music Perception and Cognition, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval).

Nat is a performer and composer, specializing in electric and classical guitar: as a composer, he specializes in imitative counterpoint and complex rhythmic/metric ideas like polyrhythm, "tempo spirals," and Indonesian irama, realized through classical guitar, rock instrumentation, and Indonesian Gamelan.