Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads is an American composer, author and programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music and is known for his work on microsound, in particular granular and pulsar synthesis, which he set out in his book Microsound (MIT Press, 2001). He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is Professor Emeritus. Roads studied at CalArts, UC San Diego and Université Paris 8, and taught at Harvard, Oberlin, the University of Naples and Les Ateliers UPIC in Paris.
Electronic Music 1994-2021
*2026 stock* For this album I have assembled a collection of contrasting works from the archives. Some have previously been released, others not. Three pieces: Sculptor, Touche pas, and Bubble chamber are based on the microsound techniques of granula…
Flicker Tone Pulse (Electronic Music 2001-2016)
A prolific composer, performer, and author, Curtis Roads says he “pursues research in the interdisciplinary territory spanning music and technology.” He was Editor and Associate Editor of Computer Music Journal (The MIT Press) from 1978 to 2000, co-f…
Clang-Tint Modulude
Two computer works by Curtis Roads on one LP: Clang-Tint, a 1994 commission from Japan's Ministry of Culture and the Kunitachi College of Music, and Modulude, composed between 1998 and 2021. 250 copies.
Microsound
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building…
Point Line Cloud
P028X is the reissue of the seminal Point Line Cloud album by Curtis Roads, 15 years after its original publication on Asphodel. Each piece here revels in the microscopic level of sound that Roads discusses in his book Microsound. He devises rich tex…