Brad Garton
Professor of Music
Director of Computer Music Center
BS, Purdue University
PhD, Princeton University (1989)
Brad Garton serves as Director of the Computer Music Center (formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center). He has assisted in the establishment and development of a number of computer music studios throughout the world, and is an active contributor to the greater community of computer musicians/researchers, formerly serving on the Board of Directors of the International Computer Music Association as editor (with Robert Rowe) of the ICMA newsletter and artistic director/co-organizer of several high-profile festivals and conferences of new computer music.
His current work includes focused research on the modeling and enhancement of acoustic spaces as well as the modeling of human musical performance on various virtual "instruments". He is also the primary developer (with Dave Topper) or RTcmix, a real-time music synthesis/signal-processing language. The point of all this work is to continue to make fun new pieces of music, which he does every day.
Selected Publications:
"Recent Developments at the Columbia University Computer Music Center," Current Musicology 66 (Spring 1999)
"Two new approaches to the simulation of acoustic spaces," in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Glasgow, 1990 (San Francisco: Computer Music Association, 1990)
Reviews in the Computer Music Journal
Selected Works:
Connected Piano (2001) for piano and computer. Premiered at the NTT Computer Music Symposium II in Tokyo, Japan
D-ness (2001) for piano and computer.
Dan's Toys (1998) for computer. Performed at the ICMC 1998 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Approximate Rhythms (1989) featured on "Inner Voices: Music from the Winham Laboratory at Princeton University" (Centaur Records, 1990) CRC 2076
Graduate Courses Taught:
G6610/6611 Computer Music
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
V2205 MIDI Music Production Techniques
C1123 Music Humanities
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