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Curtis Roads

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#8688

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#2773

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Curtis Roads's Degrees

PhD Music Composition University of California, San Diego
Masters Music Composition University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Music University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Curtis Roads is an American composer, author and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. Career and music Born in Cleveland, Ohio, 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. He has previously taught at the University of Naples "Federico II", Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers UPIC , and the University of Paris VIII.

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Curtis Roads's Published Works

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Published Works

The Computer Music Tutorial (1996) (1117)
Responsive Input Devices and Sound Synthesis by Stimulation of Instrumental Mechanisms: The Cordis System (1984) (133)
Music, Mind, and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music (1983) (127)
Foundations of computer music (1985) (122)
Musical Signal Processing (1997) (117)
Representations of Musical Signals (1991) (115)
Grammars as Representations for Music (1979) (112)
Introduction to Granular Synthesis (1988) (110)
The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1 (1982) (89)
Automated Granular Synthesis of Sound (1978) (82)
Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic (2015) (81)
Research in music and artificial intelligence (1985) (79)
The Music Machine (1988) (62)
Asynchronous granular synthesis (1991) (59)
Composers and the Computer (1986) (35)
A Tutorial on Non-Linear Distortion or Waveshaping Synthesis (1979) (27)
The Tsukuba Musical Robot (1986) (24)
The art of articulation: The electroacoustic music of Horacio Vaggione (2005) (24)
Sound Composition with Pulsars (2001) (22)
Early Electronic Music Instruments: Time Line 1899-1950 (1996) (22)
Analysis, Visualization, and Transformation of Audio Signals Using Dictionary-based Methods (2009) (20)
Interview with Max Mathews (1980) (19)
Dark Energy in Sparse Atomic Estimations (2008) (17)
Granular Sound Spatialization Using Dictionary-Based Methods (2008) (16)
Interview with Marvin Minsky (1980) (15)
Artificial intelligence and music (1980) (15)
Musical Sound Transformation by Convolution (1993) (13)
AUDIO ANALYSIS, VISUALIZATION, AND TRANSFORMATION WITH THE MATCHING PURSUIT ALGORITHM (2004) (12)
Composing Grammars (1977) (10)
Automated Composition and Composed Automation (1981) (10)
Poesie Sonore Internationale (1983) (10)
Pitch-shifting audio signals using sparse atomic approximations (2006) (9)
Musical interface technology: multimodal control of multidimensional parameter spaces for electroacoustic music performance (2007) (8)
The art of mixing (2015) (8)
The Second STEIM Symposium on Interactive Composition in Live Electronic Music (1986) (8)
MIDI for Musicians (1984) (7)
Interview with Morton Subotnick (1988) (7)
Interactive Orchestration Based on Score Analysis (1982) (6)
A Turing Test for "Musical Intelligence"? (1988) (6)
Jean-Jacques Perrey and the Ondioline (1994) (6)
Rhythmic Processes in Electronic Music (2014) (5)
An Interview with Gottfried Michael Koenig (1978) (5)
Proceedings of the 1978 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 1978, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 1978 (1978) (5)
The Evolution of Spatial Audio in the AlloSphere (2016) (5)
Comments on University Instruction in Computer Music Composition (1982) (5)
The Perception of Microsound and its Musical Implications (2003) (5)
ADEPT : A FRAMEWORK FOR ADAPTIVE DIGITAL AUDIO EFFECTS (2016) (4)
Introduction to "The Menace of Mechanical Music" by John Philip Sousa (1993) (3)
A comparison of molecular approaches for generating sparse and structured multiresolution representations of audio and music signals (2008) (3)
Musimathics Volume 2 (2008) (3)
Granular Model of Multidimensional Spatial Soniﬁcation (2015) (2)
Exploring MIDI: The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (1985) (2)
Symposium on Computer Music Composition (1986) (2)
Interview with Paul Lansky (1983) (2)
A Note on Music Printing by Computer (1981) (2)
The Path to Half-life (2004) (1)
Foundations of Computer Music: A Review@@@Foundations of Computer Music (1985) (1)
Active Music Representations (1989) (1)
Conversations with Cage@@@A John Cage Reader (1988) (1)
Spatiotemporal Granulation (2016) (1)
CREATE Studio Report 2016 (2016) (1)
About This Issue (2007) (0)
Concert in the Imaginary Landscapes Series at the Kitchen New York City, 27 February 1988 (1988) (0)
Kraftfelt (review) (2007) (0)
Music of Earl Howard (1984) (0)
Introduction to pulsar synthesis (2001) (0)
Journal of Community Communications (1980) (0)
The nature of sound (2015) (0)
Foundations of Computer Music edited by Curtis Roads and John Strawn (1985) (0)
A Sky of Cloudless Sulfur/After the Butterfly (1981) (0)
Natasha Barrett: Kraftfelt (2007) (0)
The Eventide Ultra-Harmonizer H3000 (1989) (0)
Early Music: Automatic Instruments Issue (1983) (0)
CREATE Studio Report 2000 (2000) (0)
Machine Tongues IV (1979) (0)
CREATE 2003 Studio Report (2003) (0)
Interview with Dexter Morrill (1987) (0)
International Workshop on Models of the Singing Voice and Musical Sounds, Sorrento, Italy, 28-30 October 1988 (1989) (0)
Jacqueline Caux: Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari (Critical Ear Volume 5) (2015) (0)
"Analog" Control of Digital Audio Signal Processing (1995) (0)
Questo numero / About this issue (2013) (0)
Computer music: Copyright restrictions prevent ACM from providing the full text for this work. (2004) (0)
Nicolas Isherwood: The Techniques of Singing (2014) (0)
Anthology of Dutch Electronic Music, Vol. 1, 1955-1966 (1979) (0)
Transfer: an Interactive Program for Real-time Spectral Transformations and Visualization Transfer: an Interactive Program for Real-time Spectral Transformations and Visualization Transfer: an Interactive Program for Real-time Spectral Transformations and Visualization (0)
Processes of rhythm (2015) (0)
Keynotes 8: Musical Life in the Netherlands (1978/2) (1979) (0)
Trends & Perspectives in Signal Processing (1982) (0)
Two Cambridge Concerts (1984) (0)
Architecture for Real-Time Granular Synthesis With Per-Grain Processing: EmissionControl2 (2021) (0)
Dynacord DRP-20 Reverberator and Effects Processor (1989) (0)
Creating sound materials (2015) (0)
Integrated Media Systems Digital Dyaxis: A Digital Audio Workstation (1989) (0)
144 Sounds, Electronic Music (1984) (0)
Parole et Musique (Speech and Music) (1985) (0)
About This Issue (2005) (0)
The Techniques of Singing by Nicholas Isherwood (review) (2014) (0)
Sound Structure in Message (1988) (0)
Foundation of Computer Music (1987) (0)
About This Issue (2014) (0)
The evolution of granular synthesis: an overview of current research (2006) (0)
Roundtable II: A Common High‐Level Ground for Scientists and Musicians (2003) (0)
The electronic medium (2015) (0)
Organization of Clang-tint (1993) (0)
Pitch in electronic music (2015) (0)
Electronic Art Ensemble: Inquietude (1983) (0)
Bulletin CEC Newsletter (1988) (0)
Proceedings of the 1977 International Computer Music Conference : Held at th e University of California, San Diego, October 26-30, 1977 La Jolla, California, (1977) (0)
Lexicon 300 Digital Effects System (1993) (0)

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