Sarig is a recorder player specializing in early music and 21st-century music. He has graduated with a BSc. degree in mathematics and computer science and served for 20 years as a chief technologist in leading R&D teams in Israel, Switzerland, and the UK. Recently, he received a position as a lecturer in the faculty of engineering in the Ruppin Academic Center. His work in computational musicology focused on the relationship between theory and practice as reflected in the division ornamentation practice (DOP) of the 16th-century. In 3 publications he examines quantitatively and qualitatively the manuals of ornamentation practice of a selection of composers in the 16th century and compares them to actual pieces with written divisions. He also examines this tradition as a form of online communication showing its characteristics abide by the laws of Zipf in terms of linguistic communication.