COURSES TAUGHT:
Courses at Bar-Ilan University:
(47-109) Practical workshop in Music Cognition, (47-111) MAX Language algorithmic composition, (47-113) Acoustics and Orchestration, (47-114) Composition in post-digital era, (47-129) Music recording studio, (47-202) Music signal processing, (47-203) Max for live, (47-205) Practical workshop and interactive projects, (47-206) Advance MAX/MSP programming, (47-245) final projects, (47-140) Creating with music notation software, (47-882) Audiovisual programming, (47-886) Soundtrack design for Visual Media
Courses at Levinsky College of Education:
(60-184), Advanced Learning Environments, (40-757) Computer and Music, (40-20) Jazz Ensemble, (40-984) Writing and Editing Music in a Computerized Environment, (40-984) Real-Time Composition and Improvisation, (60-164) MA projects
Courses at The Department of Literature Language and Arts, the Open University:
(10767) Music and creativity in a computerized environment
Software - Max/MSP/Jitter, Matlab, Praat, Scala, Supercollider, Ableton
RESEARCH TOPICS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
• Composition with an emphasis on the field of virtual art (new media), integration of the digital visual world for music applications, web creation, video art, sound installations, etc.
• Technology and creativity, developing computational-system-based environments for concert musical needs.
• Pedagogy in a musical context based on innovative technology and the development of interactive learning environments.
• Integrative research on synchronization among autistic adults and its implications for their social functioning: joint drumming as a platform for measuring brain, physiological, and motor synchronization.
INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA COVERAGE:
Haggai Hitron, an uplifting funeral at the Tel Aviv Museum, Haaretz website, December 31, 2013
Interview with the composer and researcher, Dr. Ophir Ilzetzki on Radio Halas, the studio at the Holon Center for Digital Art
Israeli Curator: Interview with Uri Golomb on kan kol hamusica radio station
Felicja Blumenthal, Living Room Meetings: Conversation with Abigail Arnheim
The Israeli High-Tech Book, The Marker, Haaretz: On Digital Technologies and New Music, December 2020
Writing a composition for orchestra, interviewing and playing in the international project of the Modern Art Orchestra in Hungary together with the composers: Péter Eötvös and György Kurtag and the conductor Kornél Fekete-Kovács
An integrative study of drum synchronization among autistic adults and its implications for their social functioning. The Jewish Press
Academia Composition Award - Press Release in Spain
Dr. Amir Mendel hosts Prof. Shai Cohen, Monday, August 21, 2023. On the relationship between sound and noise; on the importance of play and curiosity in making music; On the importance of humanity and human error even in the digital age.
"How has Israeli music sounded since October 7?" Walla website, opinions and interpretations, 20.12.2023
MUSIC PUBLISHER AND CD:
BabelScores, Paris, France
The Israel Music Institute (IMI)
Israeli Music Center (IMC)
Score Follower FMS21 Spring & incipitsify
MEMBERS OF REPUTABLE SCIENTIFIC FORUMS IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD:
• The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
• ACL (Asian Composers' League)
• ECSA (European Composers and Songwriter Alliance)
• Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel
AWARDS, GRANTS, & HONORS:
2023 - "The People of the Black Circle" for Ensemble, Narrator, Live electronics, fixed media, and video. Mifal HaPais, Council for the Culture and Arts & ACUM grants.
2022 - Menachem Avidom Prize Achievement Award for the piece “Darkness” - An ACUM Prize. Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel.
2021 - “Understanding the inter-personal neural mechanisms of synchronization in young adults with ASD: Employing dyadic drumming as a platform for a multimodal investigation of social function”. The Israeli Science Foundation Jerusalem (ISF).
2021 - Grant of Excellence in Teaching, Bar-Ilan University.
2021 - The Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos has held the V International Music Composition Competition Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, endowed with a single prize of 4,000 euros. In an open call to composers of any nationality, and with no age limit, the winning work has been Remez, whose author is Shai Cohen.
2020 - “Interpretation and Performance of Violins for the Graphic Notation Method: Interdisciplinary Observation - Music, Sociology, Literacy, and Mathematics”. The President's Fund, Levinsky College of Education.
2020 - "Darkness" for cello, electric guitar, percussion, Live electronics, fixed media, and video. Mifal HaPais, Council for the Culture and Arts grant.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2012-17, 2019- Chairman of the Israel Composers' League
2015-2017 Member of the Prime Minister's Prize for Composition Committee
2018- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Composers' Award
2017- Israel's Ministry of Education, Curriculum Committee for High School
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES:
- Cohen, S. (May 15, 2025). "Diving Between Disciplines": Interdisciplinarity in Music Technology. An international conference on Music technology. Bar-Ilan, Israel.
- Cohen, S. (January 16, 2020). An international conference on contemporary music for early instruments. Composition, technology, and aesthetics - The well-tempered detune, Israel.
- Cohen, S. (November 29 - Dec 1, 2017). An international conference on research in music and creativity, pushing the boundaries of musical expression. IRMaM, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music and Mind, Israel.
Books:
Cohen, S. (2011). Music and Creation in a Computerized Environment - 10767. The Open University. Writing and developing 14 study units, including the coursebook (687 pages).