Matthew Tyler Giobbi (born 1974) is an author and educator in the fields of music, science criticism, philosophy, media theory, psychoanalysis, and psychology. He has written A Postcognitive Negation: The Sadomasochistic Dialectic of American Psychology . [1]
Giobbi was born and raised in Easton and Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. He began studying music with Paul Schocker, a pianist and composer. [2]
He attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he studied trombone, and at Mannes School of Music. He performed with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and was a trombonist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Lima in Peru.
Giobbi studied trombone at Koninklijk Conservatorium, in Brussels. [3] In 2005, Giobbi earned a master's degree in psychology from the Graduate Faculty at The New School for Social Research in New York City. In 2009, he earned a Ph.D. from the European Graduate School, under Wolfgang Schirmacher. [4]
Giobbi designed the first undergraduate course in media psychology at Rutgers University at Newark. The course was added to the university's curriculum catalogue in 2015. [5]
In 2014, he authored Media Psychology, published by Atropos Press. [6] His private teaching focus is now on the application of existential-phenomenological psychology and Buddhist psychology in the practice of creative and performing arts. [7]
In 1998, Giobbi released Collected Songs, [8] which is a series of original songs, recorded in Brussels, Belgium. In 2018 he released an album of original compositions, Ode. [9] Take on Me, an album of jazz-inspired music from the 1980s was released in 2021. [10]
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