The interdisciplinary collaboration between music and computer science has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand its database.

David Sears and Tommy Dang received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to further illuminate patterns in how people listen to music globally. 

Sears is an associate professor of interdisciplinary arts in Texas Tech University’s Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and is co-director of the Performing Arts Research Lab (PeARL). Dang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the Interactive Data Visualization Lab (iDVL). The two researchers met at a workshop on campus years ago in an effort to further their interdisciplinary work. 

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