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About the Faculty Artists

Adele Fournet is assistant professor of music in music production (creation and production) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An interdisciplinary artist working at the crossroads of recorded music and video, she is a music scholar and multimodal researcher exploring the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics within popular music production. With over two decades of experience as a performing musician and 15 years as a producer and engineer, Fournet has earned acclaim for her genre-blending productions and accompanying music videos. Her work has been celebrated in Rolling Stone en Español, Bandcamp Daily, Remezcla, New Sounds, Songlines, on KEXP, and more. She has performed with her original music projects, Tipa Tipo and La Banda Chuska, and at prominent venues including Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, while also actively participating in and supporting independent and DIY music spaces. Fournet has received research support from Fulbright, the New York University McCracken Foundation, Humanities New York, and the New York University Center for the Humanities. Her web series, “Bit Rosie,” which highlights female and gender-expansive music producers, is an inaugural component of the New York University library’s first music-related video streaming archive. Her films have been showcased on PBS New York, the New York City Independent Film Festival, and the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, among others. Before joining the Jacobs School, Fournet taught music and interdisciplinary production courses at New York University and The New School.

Andy West is associate professor of music in music production (creation and production) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. West has been a professional musician and songwriter since 1991, when he left indie band The Fontaines to join Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Roger Cook (Blue Mink) in the eclectic trio Cornwell, Cook, and West. Since then, more than 400 of his songs have been published, primarily by Warner Chappell, and featured in film and on TV in over 40 countries, most notably in the Grammy-winning shows Heroes, Lost, and True Blood. With his various bands and as a solo artist, West has toured extensively in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. While residing in Nashville (1997-2003), he played live and recorded with Ian Wallace (Bob Dylan), Kenny Vaughan (Lucinda Williams), Willie Weeks (David Bowie), Garry Tallent (Bruce Springsteen), Michael Rhodes (Etta James), and Chad Cromwell (Neil Young). In 2003, West produced Julie Lee’s Stillhouse Road, featuring Grammy winners Alison Krauss and Vince Gill, and later that year, his solo album Sundays and Birthdays was released on the Nashville-based Infinity Cat label. A specialist in the fields of higher education and popular music studies, West’s Ph.D. focuses on the teaching and learning of songwriting, and he earned an M.A. in Professional Learning. In 2006, he designed and course-directed the world’s first master’s degree in songwriting. His first book, The Art of Songwriting, was published by Bloomsbury in 2016 and is now in its fifth edition. A second book, Higher Music Education: 21 Questions for the 21st Century, was published by Leeds Conservatoire in 2020. His third book, Paul Weller and Popular Music, was published by Routledge in 2022. As a guest lecturer, West has taught songwriting and production at music institutions in Amsterdam, Esbjerg, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Rome, Oslo, Mannheim, Kristiansand, London, and Rotterdam. A longstanding member of PRS and ASCAP, he became a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2021.