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CREATE releases EmissionControl2
October 2020
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SEOUL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC FESTIVAL
October 2019
Seoul, South Korea
Keynote speech and performance of Always and Epicurus
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
2019
Pirelli HangarBicocca
Milan, Italy
Concert with Lorenzo Senni and Florian Hecker
CONVERGENCE CONFERENCE
September 2019
Conference at De Montfort University
Leicester, UK
Keynote speech
Concert featuring Then, Always, Touche pas, and Epicurus
LECTURE AND CONCERT
September 2019
Reid School of Music
Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh University
Scotland
Crossroads
International Contemporary Music Festival
December 2018
Salzburg, Austria
Premiere of Bubble Chamber (2018) commissioned by the Mozarteum.
Lecture SONIC NARRATIVE
Celebrating 60 years of SEM Studio für Elektronische Musik Universität Mozarteum
POINT LINE CLOUD CD + DVD re-issue
Electronic Music 1999-2003
September 2019
Presto!? Records, Milan, Italy
FLICKER TONE PULSE
MUSIC BY CURTIS ROADS, VIDEOS BY BRIAN O'REILLY
DVD
Electronic Music 2001-2017
August 2019
WERGO
https://en.schott-music.com/shop/flicker-tone-pulse
A ZKM production
CONCERT AT MAT END OF YEAR SHOW 2018
June 2018
Santa Barbara, CA
Featured Always and Touch pas at Media Arts and Technology End of Year Show concert night at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology.
LECTURE AND CONCERT
May 2018
Ebbing Sounds symposium at Grey Area Theater
San Francisco, California
LECTURE AND CONCERT WITH JOHN CHOWNING
April 2018
Electronic Music Festival
Community School of Music and Art (CSMA)
Mountain View, California
LECTURES AND CONCERT
April 2018
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York, USA
CONCERT: DON buchla memorial
April 2017
San Francisco, California USA
Concert at Gray Area Foundation.
CONCERT
March 2017
Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Saturday, March 11th, ISSUE presents two generations of artists working in the medium of computational music: pioneering computer musician and scholar Curtis Roads and composer, artist and curator Eric Frye performing work in 4-channel sound.
CURTIS ROADS AWARDED THE 2016 GIGA-HERTZ PRIZE
November 2016
ZKM | Karlsruhe, Germany
MAT professor Curtis Roads is awarded the 2016 Giga-Hertz Prize, in recognition for his contributions to the field of electronic music. The Giga-Hertz Prize is sponsored by ZKM Karlsruhe (Das Zentrum für Kunst und Medien), and the SWR Experimental Studio, Baden-Baden, Germany. The awards ceremony will be held at the 2016 Giga-Hertz Preis Festival at ZMK Karlsruhe, November 24-27, 2016.
CORRECTIONS TO COMPOSING ELECTRONIC MUSIC
May 2016
THE COMPUTER MUSIC TUTORIAL, REVISED EDITION
THE MIT Press
Forthcoming
The Computer Music Tutorial, Revised Edition has been completely reorganized into 52
smaller chapters that can be read independently.
What’s new? Corrections and extensive updates.
New chapters on the following topics:
- Analog modeling synthesis
- Pulsar synthesis
- Concatenative synthesis - Bob Sturm
- Spectrum analysis: atomic decomposition - Bob Sturm
- Open Sound Control (OSC) with Matthew Wright
As of January 2020, the manuscript is done.
COMPOSING ELECTRONIC MUSIC: A NEW AESTHETIC PUBLISHED
July 2015
Oxford University Press, New York
Co-organizer
INSONIC CONFERENCE ON SOUND IN SPACE
November 2015
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, Germany
A project of CREATE (UCSB), IRCAM, ZKM, and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).
CONCERT AT ICMC SMC
December 2014
Athens, Greece
The ICMC/SMC 2014 Joint Conference was organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Music Studies and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), the Onassis Cultural Center and the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics.
PUBLICATION OF THE COMPUTER MUSIC TUTORIAL, CHINESE EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES
May 2011,
Beijing, China
People’s Music Publishing House, Beijing.
Named “National Textbook of China.”
POLYTOPES THE ARCHITECTURE OF SOUNDSCAPES
Feb 2011
SCI-ARC (Southern California Institute for Architecture)
Los Angeles, California
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CEAIT FESTIVAL: IANNIS XENAKIS: NOW AND TOMORROW
Jan 2011
Los Angeles, California
with Brian O’Reilly, video
REDCAT Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall
CONCERT AT SUPERSIMETRIA FESTIVAL
Jan 2011
Barcelona, Spain
CONCERT AT NEW MUSIC CIRCLE
May 2010
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
FESTIVAL TAGE FÜR NEUE MUSIK
November 2009
Zürich, Switzerland
CONCERT AT MUSIC AND SUPERCOMPUTING (SC08)
November 2008
Austin Convention Center
Austin, Texas
CONCERT FEATURING FLUXON AND SCULPTOR
October 2008
Eveux, France
Musique de l’architecture
Centre de Création Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX)
Le Couvent de La Tourette (designed by Le Corbusier et Xenakis)
SUBATOMIC POP: COMPOSING AN ELECTRONIC SYMPHONY, 0.001 SECOND AT A TIME
May 2008, WIRED Magazine
“Subatomic Pop_ Composing an Electronic Symphony, 0.001 Second at a Time”.pdf
CONCERT AT LA SONIC ODYSSEY
March 2008
Pasadena, California, USA
SHORT COURSE AND CONCERT WITH BRIAN O'REILLY
October 2008
Royal Conservatory of Music
Aarhus, Denmark
SOUND AND MUSIC COMPUTING CONFERENCE
July 2007
Lefkada, Greece
SHORT COURSE AND CONCERT WITH BRIAN O'REILLY
July 2007
Ionian University
Corfu, Greece
SHORT COURSE
May 2007
Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX)
Paris, France
CONCERT AT LA SONIC ODYSSEY
March 2007
Pasadena, California, USA
SHORT COURSE AND CONCERT WITH BRIAN O'REILLY
March 2007
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
INVITED LECTURE
November 2006
Music Department, Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
SYMPOSIUM: CREATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC LEGACIES OF IANNIS XENAKIS
June 2006
Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics and University of Guelph
Toronto, Canada
SHORT COURSE AT CCMIX
May 2006
Centre de Création Musicale “Iannis Xenakis”
Paris, France
LECTURE
May 2006
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University
Stanford, California
CONCERT WITH BRIAN O'REILLY, VIDEO
April 2006
Recombinant Media Lab
San Francisco, California
16 independent channels of audio and 10 independent channels of video
SYMPOSIUM ON NOISE
April 2006
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California
CONCERT AT LA SONIC ODYSSEY
April 2006
Pasadena, California, USA
INVITED LECTURE
February 2006
Music Computation and Cognition Lab
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
CONCERT WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, VIDEO
February 2006
Sonic Acts 2006: The Anthology of Computer Art
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CONCERT AT SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC CENTER
January 2006
ODC Theater
Berkeley, California
CONCERT OF POINT LINE CLOUD
October 2005
Symposium on Xenakis
Triennale di Milano
Milan, Italy
CONCERT
June 2005
Journées d’informatique musicale
Paris, France
CREATE CONCERT
May 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara
CONCERT
May 2005
Concert sponsored by Centro Ricerche Musicale
The Goethe Institute
Rome Italy
INVITED LECTURE
April 2005
Royal Conservatory
The Hague, The Netherlands
INVITED LECTURE
December 2004
The Computer History Museum
San Jose, California
CONCERT
October 2004
Stora Hall, Royal College of Music
Stockholm, Sweden
INVITED LECTURE “SOUND AND SCIENCE”
October 2004
Royal College of Music and the Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
CONCERT
October 2004
City of Science
Naples, Italy
KEYNOTE AT DAFX 2004
October 2004
University of Naples FEDERICO I
Naples, Italy
CONCERT
September 2004
Coliseum Teatro Farnese
Parma, Italy
INVITED LECTURE SIGGRAPH
August 2004
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
OFF THE RECORD
June-October 2004
curated by Florian Hecker
Musée de l’Art Moderne
Paris, France
INVITED LECTURE
June 2004
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
CUT & SPLICE FESTIVAL
May 2004
Sponsored by the BBC
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Belfast, UK
INVITED LECTURE
May 2004
Music Department
New York University
New York City
INVITED LECTURE
April 2004
2004 West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
INVITED LECTURE
February 2004
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
INVITED LECTURE
November 2003
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord
Paris, France
CONCERT
November 2003
Paris Planetarium
Paris, France
INVITED LECTURE AND CONCERT WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, VIDEO
November 2003
International Spectral Music
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
CREATE CONCERT UCSB WITH BRIAN O’REILLY
November 2003
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
CONCERT
November 2003
Moorhead State University
Moorhead, Minnesota
TRANSPARENT TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL
August 2003
Transparent Theater
Berkeley, CA
BOURGES FESTIVAL OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC
June 2003
Bourges, France
SALERNO PORTE APERTO FESTIVAL
May 2003
Salerno, Italy
SPECTRUM NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
May 2003
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
ACOUSMANIA 2003
May 2003
International Festival of Electronic and Computer Music
Bucharest, Romania
CREATE CONCERT UCSB WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, VIDEO
May 2003
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER MORTON SUBOTNICK
April 2003
Library of Congress
Washington DC
CONCERT WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, VIDEO
April 2003
InterAmerican Development Bank
Washington DC
PRIMAVERA FESTIVAL WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, VIDEO
April 2003
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
MIXING IT
April 2003
BBC Radio 3
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES UK
April 2003
Camber Sands UK
CREATE CONCERT
November 2002
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
CONCERT OF POINT LINE CLOUD
November 2002
Espace ADAC
Paris, France
CCMIX SHORT COURSE
November 2002
Centre de Création Musicale “Iannis Xenakis”
Paris, France
LECTURE “THE PERCEPTION OF MICROSOUND.”
October 2002
Symposium on the Neurosciences and Music
Conservatory Benedetto Marcello
Venice, Italy
CONCERT OF POINT LINE CLOUD
October 2002
Symposium on the Neurosciences and Music
Conservatory Benedetto Marcello
Venice, Italy
CONCERT
October 2002
Organized by the CICM
University of Paris VIII
Paris, France
POINT LINE CLOUD WON THE AWARD OF DISTINCTION AT THE 2002 ARS ELECTRONICA
2002
Linz, Austria
"Point, Line, Cloud" is an outstanding example of the most current computer music, a great listening experience, based on academic research & technologies, with a huge impulse on various scenes and environments beyond all boundaries.
Roads' Award of Distinction winning composition „Point, Line, Cloud“ features granular and pulsar synthesis, methods he developed for generating sound from acoustical particles. These microsonic particles, pinpoints of sound, remained invisible for centuries, like the quantum world of the quarks, leptons, hadrons, gluons, and bosons. Recent technological advances let composers manipulate this domain.
CONCERT WOODSTOCKHAUSEN, SANTA CRUZ
August 2002
Santa Cruz, California
CONCERT TRANSPARENT TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL
August 2002
Berkeley, CA
Sponsored by the San Francisco Tape Music Center
CCMIX SUMMER COURSE
July 2002
Centre de Création Musicale “Iannis Xenakis”
Paris, France
LECTURES AND CONCERTS
April 2002
New York, NY
LECTURES AND CONCERTS
April 2002
Paris, France
MICROSOUND PUBLISHED BY THE MIT PRESS
March 2002
CONCERT: TRAIETTORIE
November 2001
Parma, Italy
SHORT COURSE: GRANULAR AND PULSAR SYNTHESIS
September 2001
Porto, Portugal
CONCERT OF POINT LINE CLOUD
May 2001
El Rey Theater
Los Angeles, CA
Concert with Autechre and Russell Haswell
CONCERT OF ORGANIZED SOUND
May 2001
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA