Miller Puckette
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Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. Puckette is best known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia synthesis, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s. He earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1986 after completing an undergraduate degree at MIT in 1980. He was a member of the MIT Media Lab from its opening in 1985 until 1987 before continuing his research at IRCAM, and since 1997 has been a part of the Global Visual Music project.
Puckette is also the author of Pure Data (Pd), a graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works, written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software communities. He is also a Putnam Fellow, an honor he earned in 1979. Puckette is the author of the book Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music, the text of which is freely available for download and online browsing.
Puckette will be leading a workshop at Shakerag Workshops in Sewanee, TN from June 20 - 26, 2010.
[edit] External links
- Miller Puckette's website
- Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
- Visual Music Project
- solipsistic NATION No. 108: Spime Podcast. Interview with Miller Puckette about his book, The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music.
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