Ted Gordon is a musicologist and musician whose work connects experimental music, critical organology, and science & technology studies. His current book project, The Composer’s Black Box: Cybernetics & Instrumentality in Post-War American Music, shows how scientific concepts and technologies borrowed from cybernetics, information theory, and systems-thinking became catalysts for new musical organizations—of practices, processes, and bodies. His research has been supported by the New York Public Library, and his writing has been published by Current Musicology, Portable Gray, the Library of Congress, the American Musicological Association, and Cultural Anthropology. He has written exhibition texts for the 2019 exhibition Sounding Circuits at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and has written program notes for Unseen Worlds. He performs and improvises with the viola and the Buchla Music Easel. After earning a PhD from the University of Chicago, Gordon was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York.