Scott B. Metcalfe

Scott B. Metcalfe (b. 1972) is a native New Englander, having grown up in West Hartford, Conn. He studied guitar, piano, double bass and electric bass, and earned a degree in music composition at The Hartt School of Music. Through a combined interest in music and computers he was introduced to his high school's MIDI studio which was the beginning of a lifelong passion and professional pursuit. Along with composing and designing sounds, he has engineered and produced many hundreds of recordings in many different styles of music for release and broadcast.

Professor Metcalfe would return to his alma mater, The Hartt School, as chair of Music Production and Technology in 1998. Among the classes he taught were a major sequence in music production and an elective course in music synthesis for which he sought (but did not find) an ideal text -- one that would eventually become "Creating Sounds from Scratch". In the late 2000s he approached friend and colleague Dr. Andrea Pejrolo, a professor at Berklee College of Music, about collaborating on this book that would approach music synthesis from the perspective of a producer/engineer as well as composer, and provide a historical context to help readers better understand the origin of the components in and processes inherent to their modern instruments.

In 2009, Professor Metcalfe left The Hartt School upon accepting an offer to be director of Recording Arts and Sciences at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, MD. He has lectured on recording engineering and music technology for schools and professional organizations around the world, has been a guest on NPR's Science Friday, and is active as a teacher, author, engineer-producer, and music technologist.