His research interests include the study of expressive asynchrony in piano performance, theories of meter, and meter perception. He has presented research at numerous regional, national, and international conferences, including the Society for Music Theory, the College Music Society, and the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. He also serves as the Managing Editor of Music Theory Online and is the official moderator for SMT’s online discussion forum, SMT Discuss. Brent earned his Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University in 2009. His dissertation, from which this presentation derives, is entitled “Expressive Asynchrony and Meter: A Study of Dispersal, Downbeat Space, and Metric Drift.”