Dr. Joe Peters is an independent music scholar specializing in music sustainability and digital services for integrated music education. He served a long dual career (Music and AV-IT) at the National University of Singapore: As Musical Director (1971–1992) and Associate Director (Multimedia), Centre for Instructional Technology (1993–2009).

His current work is focused on the project Sonic Orders, which is a protected workspace built on two music-listening measuring devices: SOLMI (Sonic Orders Listening Mode Index) for the general Listener (the super-majority in any Music Chain), and MESI (Music Emissions Sustainability Index) for comparative work of music emissions from world sonic environment emitters (radio, television, recordings, performances and the internet). The supporting technology is Timeline Music Annotation Library-Pedagogy (TMAL-P) where listening skills are learned and written (text and graphics) through an app, directly to the sound timeline. This makes it easy to centralize teaching, library protection, data collection/management, and more. 

Dr. Peters is currently preparing a document titled Musical Systems in Transition: A Sonic Orders Developmental Approach.