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.