Howard Meltzer is the Chair of Music and Art at Borough of Manhattan Community College. His research focuses on Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics. His publications include: Artificial Music: David Cope and EMI, Humanities and Technology Review, Volume 19, Fall, 2000; Viewing Art as Existentially Autonomous in Analecta Husserliana, 73, Kluwer Academic Publishers; An Aesthetics of Silence and Repetition , Humanities and Technology Review, Volume 20, Fall, 2001; Constant Change, Constant Identity: Music's Ontology in [Im]Permanence edited J. Schacter and S. Brockmann, Canegie Mellon/Penn State University Press.He has been awarded a 2005-2006 Mellon Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center to explore the relationship of politics and the arts.His current project is Ways of Listening: A textbook on the history and philosophy of music.Bio courtesy of his faculty page.