Curtis Roads
Saturday 23 December 2006, by jmc
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Curtis Roads is Professor in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he is also Associate Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE). Together with programmer David Thall, he recently developed EmissionControl, interactive software for generalized particle synthesis. His books include The Computer Music Tutorial (1996, The MIT Press) and Microsound (2002, The MIT Press). His electronic music collection POINT LINE CLOUD is now available as a CD + DVD on the Asphodel label (San Francisco).
Since 1997, in collaboration with a number of researchers and artists (Brian O’Reilly, Woon Seung Yeo, Francisco Iovino, Brian O’Reilly, James Ingram, and John Thompson) I have been interested in a set of overlapping problems connected to the visualization of sound. The research problems concern interrelations between sound, image, and music notation:
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, these operate under the umbrella of what I call the YNEZ research project.