Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10, 1975 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American composer, video artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City. September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Morristown is a Town located in Morris County, New Jersey. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, i. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... A professor (Latin: one who publicly professes to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... New York City portal The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ...

DuBois holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University (studying primarily with Fred Lerdahl), and is a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center. He has taught interactive music and video performance at a number of institutions, most recently Columbia, the School of Visual Arts, and the music technology and interactive telecommunications programs at New York University. As a graduate student at Columbia he was a contributor to Real-Time Cmix and currently works for Cycling'74 on Max/MSP/Jitter. Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, is a composer and music theorist, best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or musical grammars. ... The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States. ... Interaction is a kind of action which occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another. ... Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media. ... The School of Visual Arts Main Building, circa 1992. ... Music technology is a wide ranging field. ... The Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University is a pioneering graduate department focused on the study and design of new media, computational media and embedded computing under the umbrella of interactivity. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Real-Time Cmix (RTcmix) is one of the MUSIC-N family of computer music programming languages. ... A Max/MSP patch written and used by Autechre Max is a graphical development environment for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling74. ...

DuBois has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians, including Elliott Sharp, Paul D. Miller, Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eric Singer, and Leroy Jenkins. He is a founding member of the Freight Elevator Quartet, and has produced records for Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon on the Nonesuch label. His music integrates real-time performer-computer interaction with algorithmic methodologies repurposed from other fields, most notably formal grammars such as L-systems. His current research into issues of musical time revolve around a technique called time-lapse phonography, as used in his piece Billboard. Elliott Sharp (born 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. ... DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born illbient and trip hop musician, turntablist and producer. ... Eric Singer (born Eric Mensinger on May 12, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is best known as a drummer for the rock band KISS. Singer had previously played in Paul Stanleys solo band, and sat in for drummer Eric Carr during KISSs recording of God Gave Rock And Roll... This article contains information on the musician Leroy Jenkins. ... The Freight Elevator Quartet are a music performance group specializing in improvised electronic music. ... Bang on a Can is a musical organization based in New York City which was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. ... Michael Gordon (born 20 July 1956) is an American classical composer and a co-founder of Bang on a Can with Julia Wolfe and David Lang. ... Nonesuch Records is currently a Warner Bros. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. ... In computer science a formal grammar is an abstract structure that describes a formal language precisely, i. ... See L-system for information on Lindenmayer systems. ... A watch Attempting to understand time has long been a prime occupation for philosophers, scientists and artists. ... Time-lapse phonography is the name for a audio signal processing technique developed by R. Luke DuBois for his pieces Messiah and Billboard. ...

Prior to becoming a well-known laptop musician, DuBois did most of his improvisation and performance on Buchla and Serge modular synthesizers. Laptop with touchpad. ... The Buchla Modular Synthesizer Created by engineer Don Buchla with the help of Ramon Sender and composer Morton Subotnick, it was the first portable sound synthesizing device. ... Sine, square, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms The modular synthesizer is an early type of synthesizer consisting of separate modules which must be connected by wires to create a so called patch. ...

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