Mariusz Kozak

Faculty
Theory

Associate Professor of Music, Music Theory

Full-Time Faculty



Music Theory Area Chair (2022–23)
Director of Undergraduate Theory (2022–23)

Office Address:
816B Dodge Hall

Office Hours:
By appointment (click below)

m.kozak@columbia.edu





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Enacting Musical Time
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Mariusz Kozak is the author of Enacting Musical?Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music (Oxford University Press), in which he examines how listeners' understanding and experience of musical time are shaped by bodily actions and gestures. His research centers on the relationship between music, cognition, and?the body. Kozak bridges experimental approaches from embodied cognition with phenomenology and music analysis, in particular using motion-capture technology to study the movements of performers and listeners. His articles have appeared in?the?Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, and Music Theory Online, among others. In 2020 he was one of the featured speakers at the Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory. His current projects include meter and rhythm in progressive metal, the role of musical affect in creating interpersonal relationships, and a book on the history of the cognitive science of music in the twentieth century.
Kozak received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2012. Prior to coming to Columbia University in 2013 he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
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As a violinist, Kozak has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Santa Fe Symphony. After a stint with a Chicago-based country band, he continues to fiddle around in his spare time.
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Recent Publications

Feeling Meter: Kinesthetic Knowledge and the Case of Recent Progressive Metal
October, 2021




Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?
June, 2021




Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music
November, 2019




Experiencing Structure in Penderecki’s Threnody
February, 2017




Listeners' Bodies in Music Analysis: Gestures, Motor Intentionality, and Models
September, 2015





Degrees from Other Institutions:
PhD

Music Theory and History

University of Chicago

2012



MM

Music Theory

University of New Mexico

2006



MM

Violin Performance and Literature

Eastman School of Music

2003



BM

Violin Performance

University of New Mexico

2000