Musicatlas
Music
Nscor, Purity for tape, Sonal Atoms for tape.
Life
Curtis Roads teaches in CREATE, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied music composition at California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, San Diego (B.A. Summa Cum Laude), and the University of Paris VIII (Ph.D). From 1980 to 1987 he was a researcher in computer music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then taught at the University of Naples "Federico II," Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers UPIC (Paris), and the University of Paris VIII. He has recently led masterclasses at the Australian National Conservatory (Melbourne) and the Prometeo Laboratorio (Parma), among others. He is co-organizer of international workshops on musical signal processing in Sorrento, Capri, and Santa Barbara (1988, 1991, 1997, 2000). He has served on the composition juries of the Ars Electronica (Linz) and the International Bourges Competition.