Recent Works
Then (2016)
Always (2013)
Epicurus ( 2010)
Never : NeverNever, NeverAgain, NeverMore (2010)
Touche pas (2009)
Album
CURTIS ROADS/TODD BARTON
2020
NEKO Records
Finland
FLICKER TONE PULSE
Electronic Music 2001-2016
Wergo DVD (2019)
POINT LINE CLOUD
Electronic Music 1999-2003
CD and DVD
Re-issued by Presto!? Records, Milan (2019)
Point Line Cloud
2005
CD+DVD
Label Asphodel – ASP 3000
CD Audio Content
Now (2003) electronic sound. Premiered 1 May 2004 at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Eleventh vortex (2000-2001) electronic sound. Premiered 24 February 2001, Engine 27, New York City.
Half-life (1998-1999) electronic sound. In memorium Ivan Tcherepnin. Premiered May 1998, Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne.
Sculptor (2001) electronic sound. Based on acoustic material provided by John McEntire of Tortoise. Premiered 14 September 2001, Olhares de Autono Festival, Porto, Portugal.
Volt air (2001-2003) electronic sound. In four parts. Premiered 19 May 2001, concert with Autechre, El Rey Theater, Los Angeles.
Fluxon (2002) electronic sound. Premiered April 2003 at All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands, UK.
Pictor alpha (2003) electronic sound. Premiered April 2003 at All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands, UK.
Nanomorphosis (2003) electronic sound. Premiered 2 November 2003 at the Planetarium, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, France.
Tenth vortex (2000) electronic sound. Premiered 24 February 2001, Engine 27, New York City.
DVD contents
Sculptor (2001 ) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Half-life Parts I And II (1999) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Volt Air, Part I (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Volt Air, Part II (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Volt Air, Part III (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Volt Air, Part IV (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Fluxon (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Pictor Alpha (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Nanomorphosis (2003) with video by Brian O’Reilly
Addition Features
Sonal atoms with video by by Woon Seung Yeo
Pictor alpha with video by Gary Kling using a scientific visualization of the sonic energy derived by matching pursuit decomposition, which decomposes all sounds into constituent grains.
Lecture at Stanford University June 2004, live demonstration of Pulsar synthesis and discussion of composing Half-life.
Historical example of granular synthesis: Prototype (1975)
Clang-Tint
1991- 1994
Mode Records
Based on the sounds of ancient instruments and computer-generated sounds.
Commissioned by the Japan Ministry of Culture and the Kunitachi College of Music. Premiere April 1994, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo. First movement Purity appears on CCMIX: New Electroacoustic Music from Paris, Mode Records 98/99 www.moderecords.com
Field
1981, Revised 1985
Realized at the Experimental Music Studio, MIT, Cambridge, and at Century III Studio, Boston. Commissioned by the Council for the Arts at MIT. Premiered December 1981, Auditorium, University of Massachusetts at Boston.
CD edition Digital Rewind, MIT Media Laboratory.
nscor
1980, Revised 1986
Electronic sounds. Composition realized at the Center for Music Experiment (La Jolla), Institut voor Sonologie (Utrecht), Structured Sound Synthesis Project (Toronto), and the MIT Experimental Music Studio (Cambridge). Premiered October 1980, Musei Civici, Varese, Italy.
CD edition New Computer Music, Wergo 2010-50.