Background
MM, DePaul University; MLIS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Greg MacAyeal is the Curator of the Northwestern University Music Library, overseeing all collections and services related to music materials. As a Bienen School of Music Lecturer, he teaches on the topic of research methods.
Greg’s research interests include musical experimentalism since 1945, the music and writing of John Cage, and the “No Wave” arts movement. A 2018 fellowship at Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities supported an inquiry on the intersection of John Cage and Glenn Branca at the 1982 New Music America Festival.
Recently curated exhibits include Digital Dragonetti: An Online Portrait of Domenico Dragonetti from the Collections at Northwestern University, and It’s Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather: John Cage and Dance.
His writings have appeared in Notes: quarterly journal of the Music Library Association, CD Hotlist, Music Reference Services Quarterly, Reference and User Services Quarterly, and C&RL News. Greg has presented to the Music Library Association, Association of Recorded Sound Collections, New Music Gathering, Association of College and Research Libraries, ARL Assessment Conference, Digital Public Library, and the Society of American Archivists, among others.