No. 1
Theme
Two voices in counterpoint: a jazz guitarist with a Master of Music from the University of Utah, and a career software engineer building web applications and persistence architectures for the State of Utah. The research lives where the voices meet — signal processing in service of composition, machine learning with the human performer at the center, and hardened Rust/WASM platforms for the open web.
No. 2
Movements
2012 — PRESENT · ALLEGRO CON BRIO
IT Analyst III, State of Utah
Department of Technology Services. Web application development, database design and persistence strategies, React frontends, Java Spring frameworks. Governor's Award of Excellence, 2016.
2010 — 2012 · SCHERZO
Analyst, Tomax
Salt Lake City. Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) and web application development for retail platforms.
1995 — 2010 · ANDANTE
Analyst, University of Utah
J. Willard Marriott Library, Technology Assisted Curriculum Center. Fifteen years building online education delivery tools.
No. 3
Inquiry
Ⅰ
Music Information Retrieval & DSP
Audio feature extraction and spectral analysis in service of composition, mixing, and jazz pedagogy.
Ⅱ
AI & Machine Learning for Music and Art
Generative models and recommender systems — always with the human performer and composer at the center.
Ⅲ
Pure Web Technology & Rust / WASM
Zero-dependency HTML5 and JavaScript wrappers around hardened Rust WebAssembly cores.
Ⅳ
Jazz Guitar Pedagogy & Ensemble Composition
Notation frameworks and orchestral authoring for human performers.
No. 4
Writings
No. 5
Coda
M.M. Jazz Studies, University of Utah. Most Outstanding Collegiate Guitarist, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (1989). Governor's Award of Excellence (2016).
Gary
Gerber
Logic and creativity, treated as complementary faculties of the same mind.
Software engineer for the State of Utah; jazz guitarist and large-ensemble composer; founder of GuidoGerb Pioneering Labs — researching music information retrieval, machine learning for art, and hardened Rust/WASM platforms for the open web.
IT Analyst III — State of Utah
Department of Technology Services. Web applications, database design & persistence strategies, React, Java Spring. Governor's Award of Excellence, 2016.
Analyst — Tomax
Java Persistence Architecture and web application development, Salt Lake City.
Analyst — University of Utah
Marriott Library Technology Assisted Curriculum Center. Online education delivery tools.
A.
Music Information Retrieval & DSP
Spectral analysis in service of composition and pedagogy.
B.
AI & ML for Music and Art
The human performer and composer at the center.
C.
Pure Web & Rust / WASM
Zero-dependency wrappers around hardened WebAssembly cores.
D.
Pedagogy & Composition
Jazz guitar instruction and orchestral authoring for human performers.
M.M. Jazz Studies
University of Utah
Most Outstanding Collegiate Guitarist
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, 1989
Governor's Award of Excellence
State of Utah, 2016
UTAH, USA · GUIDOGERB PIONEERING LABS FOR LOGIC & CREATIVITY · 2026
Gary Gerber
jazz guitarist × software engineer
Gary Gerber works the seam between two crafts. By day he builds web applications, persistence architectures, and React frontends for the State of Utah. By night — and most mornings — he is a jazz guitarist, large-ensemble composer, and researcher chasing the place where signal processing, machine learning, and live performance converge.
His workshop for all of it is GuidoGerb Pioneering Labs for Logic & Creativity — a scholarly endeavor where logic and creativity are treated as complementary faculties of the same mind, in service of live music and human artistic expression.
Side A · Engineering
IT Analyst III — State of Utah
Dept. of Technology Services. Web application development, database design & persistence strategies, React, Java Spring frameworks.
Analyst — Tomax
Salt Lake City. Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) and web application development.
Analyst — University of Utah
J. Willard Marriott Library, Technology Assisted Curriculum Center. Online education delivery tools.
Side B · Music & Research
Master of Music, Jazz Studies
University of Utah. Jazz guitar performance, pedagogy, and large-ensemble composition.
Most Outstanding Collegiate Guitarist
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.
Governor's Award of Excellence
State of Utah.
GuidoGerb Pioneering Labs
Founder. Research at the frontier of music, AI, and scientific computing.
Humanity as a Neural Network
Mapping mechanistic-interpretability concepts from LLM research onto the fabric of human society.
The Nucleon Switch
A theoretical framework for subatomic transmutation from inorganic precursors to complex organics.
Algorithmic Orchestration
Translating tripartite MIDI into composer-specific symphonic MusicXML.
GuidoGerb Paleontology
An automated cyber-physical system for fossil harvesting and digital cataloging in the San Rafael Swell.
The Thermodynamics of Number Theory
Kaprekar's routine analyzed as a self-organizing critical system.
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