Joel Chadabe

Joel Chadabe (1938-2021) was an American composer, performer and writer, born in the Bronx. He was a pioneer of interactive music systems, in which a computer responds to a performer in real time, and in 1965 he joined the State University of New York at Albany, where he directed the electronic music studio. He is also known for his history of the field, Electric Sound. Chadabe studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Yale, where his teacher was Elliott Carter. At Albany he designed the CEMS (Coordinated Electronic Music System) with Robert Moog.