Matthew Day Blackmar is a musicologist, musician and sound scholar whose research interests orbit the figure of the musical amateur, engaging nineteenth-century print cultures, material cultures of twentieth-century recording engineering and sound design, and the media archaeology of twenty-first-century digital-musical practice. His work has appeared in the Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, Musicology Review and Sensate: A Journal of Experiments in Critical Media Practice; his research has been recognized via the Ingolf Dahl Award (American Musicological Society) and the Musicology Review annual article prize. Prior to graduate study, Matthew worked as a performing and recording musician in Los Angeles, where he contributed keyboards, programming and string arrangements to pop, hip-hop and heavy-metal recordings.