Barry Truax
Barry Truax (born 1947 in Chatham, Ontario) is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic and computer music and a writer on acoustic communication. Based at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he joined R. Murray Schafer's World Soundscape Project, he is known for soundscape composition and for the first real-time implementation of granular synthesis. Truax studied physics and mathematics at Queen's University, music at the University of British Columbia and then at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (1971-73), where he began his POD composition software.



