Curtis Roads
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Career and music
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,[1] Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California San Diego. He is former chair and current vice chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] He has previously taught at the University of Naples[2] "Federico II", Harvard University,[2] Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX, Center for the Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis),[2] and the University of Paris[2] VIII.
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 (NSF).[2]
The first movement of his composition Clang-Tint, "Purity", uses intervals from the Bohlen–Pierce scale.[3]
Publications
- Roads, Curtis (2015). Composing Electronic Music. Oxford University Press.
- Roads, Curtis (2001). Microsound. Cambridge: MIT Press. Template:ISBN
- Roads, Curtis (1996). The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press. Template:ISBN
- Roads, Curtis, Pope, Stephen Travis, Piccialli, Aldo and De Poli, Giovanni, eds (1997). Musical Signal Processing. Routledge. Template:ISBN
- Roads, Curtis and Strawn, John, eds (1987). Foundations of Computer Music. MIT Press. Template:ISBN
Compositions
- POINT LINE CLOUD (2005) @Asphodel (Excerpt @ youtube)
- Half-life (1998–1999)
- Clang-Tint (1991–1994)
- nscor (1980)
References
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External links
- Artist page
- Wired.com article by Eliot Van Buskirk Hear Curtis Roads’ Subatomic Pop Symphonies (May 5 2008), accessed 16 February 2010
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- Asphodel artist page
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- Living people
- University of California, San Diego alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- Oberlin College faculty
- 1951 births
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