Rob Harari

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About Rob Harari

Rob Harari has versatility in the field of audio and music as a music producer, educator, composer, sound designer, audio engineer, musician and researcher. Over a 35-year career in music, Harari has worked on multiple Grammy nominated albums, Emmy Award winning programming for children educational content on PBS and musical themes for major sporting events, composed songs individually and collaboratively for albums ranging from rock, pop and jazz to spoken word. He contributed soundtracks to multiple TV shows, Documentaries, and in 2005, Harari was commissioned as Sound Designer and recordist of the binaural project “The Hiding” for the Holocaust Museum and Study Center of Rockland County, N.Y, which has received international accolades. Harari mixed shows as the Production Manager and FOH mixer for Gregory Hines and Savion Glover including Glover's work; “Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (4 Tony Awards 2006), Live (Barbra Streisand), Cannes Film Festival, and the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, and also in the Spike Lee film “Bamboozled”. Adding academia to his resume in the mid naught's, Harari is full now Professor and Director of the Music & Technology Program at Stevens Institute of Technology. This association has led to various research interests including: the field of Psychoacoustics through a collaboration with Hackensack University Medical Center, awarded a 500K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)DRK-12 program titled,"Multimedia Immersion Inspires STEM Interest". to develop a high school curriculum that tie production techniques in animation and audio with scientific principles of physics, systems integration design, computer science and NGSS appropriate standards for high school students. In 2016, he collaborated with the research group at Nokia Bell Labs as the first artist since the 1960’s as part of Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.), Harari authored and produced “The Shannon Effect”, a celebration of Claude E Shannon, the father of Information Theory. More recently, Harari has partnered with Neural Engineer Dr George McConnell in an observational study of brain activity during the cognitive process of learning music through to performance while wearing a 32 node EEG cap to capture real time brain activity. The thesis is to determine if there is a correlation between these areas of activity with areas of restricted activity in Alzheimer and Parkinson's patients to design a protocol to "re-ignite" those neural networks through musical performance.