Mark Gotham

Mark Gotham is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Computation at King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities. He holds a unique position bridging STEM and the humanities, with prior roles as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Durham University and a Professor of Music Theory at Technische Universität Dortmund. His research focuses on computational methods for music theory, corpus creation, and accessibility. Gotham completed a Ph.D. in Music Theory at the University of Cambridge, an MMus in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, and a First-Class Bachelor’s in Music from the University of Oxford.

His work spans computational musicology, including projects like the OpenScore initiative, which digitizes and opens music scores. He is affiliated with King’s Computational Humanities Research Group and the Centre for Digital Culture. Gotham’s compositions, such as the award-winning CD *Utrumne est Ornatum*, blend theoretical rigor with creative expression. He collaborates with institutions like Deutsche Telekom on projects like *Beethoven X* and leads the Music Computing Lab at King’s.

Gotham’s research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, using computational tools to explore musical structures and democratize access to music theory. His contributions include frameworks for aligning symbolic music, standards for harmonic analysis, and pedagogical innovations in music education.