Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author, and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis.
Career and music
[edit]Born in Cleveland, Ohio,[1] Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, San Diego, and Paris 8 University. He is the former chair and vice chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program and former associate director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] He had previously taught at the University of Naples Federico II,[2] Harvard University,[2] Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Les Ateliers UPIC,[2] and Paris 8 University.[2]
He co-founded the International Computer Music Association in 1980 and edited the Computer Music Journal from 1978–2000.[2] He has created software including PulsarGenerator and the Creatovox, both with Alberto de Campo.
Since 2004, he has been researching a new method of sound analysis called atomic decompositions, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.[2]
The first movement of his composition Clang-Tint, "Purity", uses intervals from the Bohlen–Pierce scale.[3]
Publications
[edit]- Roads, Curtis (2015). Composing Electronic Music. Oxford University Press.
- Roads, Curtis (2001). Microsound. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-18215-7
- Roads, Curtis (1996). The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68082-3
- Roads, Curtis, Pope, Stephen Travis, Piccialli, Aldo and De Poli, Giovanni, eds (1997). Musical Signal Processing. Routledge. ISBN 90-265-1483-2
- Roads, Curtis and Strawn, John, eds (1987). Foundations of Computer Music. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68051-3
Compositions
[edit]- POINT LINE CLOUD (2005) @Asphodel (Excerpt @ youtube)
- Half-life (1998–1999)
- Clang-Tint (1991–1994)
- nscor (1980)
References
[edit]- ^ accessed July 21, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g "MAT: Faculty and Researchers Archived 2009-07-09 at the Wayback Machine", Mat.UCSB.edu.
- ^ "Synthèse 96: The 26th International Festival of Electroacoustic Music", p.91. Michael Voyne Thrall. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 90–92.
External links
[edit]- Artist page
- Wired.com article by Eliot Van Buskirk Hear Curtis Roads’ Subatomic Pop Symphonies (May 5 2008), accessed 16 February 2010
- moderecords.com profile Archived July 29, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- Asphodel artist page
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- 1951 births
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians