News (OptionIII) — Curtis Roads

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FLICKER TONE PULSE, MUSIC BY CURTIS ROADS, VIDEOS BY BRIAN O'REILLY, BLU-RAY DISC FROM ZKM

Forthcoming Fall 2018

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, CA

LECTURES AND CONCERT

April 2018
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York, USA

CONCERT

April 2017
San Francisco, CA, USA

Concert at Gray Area Foundation for DON BUCHLA MEMORIAL

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

Forthcoming

The Computer Music Tutorial, Revised Edition has been completely reorganized into 53 smaller chapters that can be read independently.
What’s new?
Corrections and updates.
New chapters on the following topics:
- Analog modeling synthesis and processing
- Scanned synthesis
- Pulsar synthesis
- Concatenative synthesis - Bob Sturm
- Spectrum analysis: atomic decomposition - Bob Sturm
- Open Sound Control (OSC)

COMPOSING ELECTRONIC MUSIC: A NEW AESTHETIC PUBLISHED

July 2015

INSONIC CONFERENCE ON SOUND IN SPACE

November 2015
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, Germany

Thanks to a generous grant from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation in Germany, qualified students from the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) and the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program at UCSB can study and realize spatial audio projects in the Spatial Audio Group at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), which is affiliated with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM). Students from Karlsruhe will also travel to Santa Barbara for similar purposes. As a conclusion to these activities, a conference on spatial audio entitled InSonic is being held in Karlsruhe 26-28 November 2015, which will be attended by students and faculty from both places as well as other international participants.

CONCERT AT ICMC SMC

December 2014
Athens, Greece

The ICMC|SMC|2014 Joint Conference is 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

Inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis, the title Polytopes translates to “The architecture of soundscapes.” Through his work with Le Corbusier, Xenakis catalyzed a radically new sound universe and sound architecture for 20th century music.
Staging new electronic and visual music to a discussion with composers and performers, this symposium links the relations of sound experience, sound inherent structures and mathematics to architecture and space. Organized by the MediaSCAPES post-graduate program at SCI-Arc, the event is dedicated to a public audience and students interested in imagining the fusion of contemporary practices of architecture with media, music making and art.
Special thanks to Abby Sher for her support of this event. The symposium is presented by the Mediascapes program at SCI-Arc.