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Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes.[1] He developed the first ever implementation of real-time granular synthesis,^{[citation needed]} in 1986, the first to use a sample as the source of a granular composition in 1987's Wings of Nike,^{[citation needed]} and was the first composer to explore the range between synchronic and asynchronic granular synthesis in 1986's Riverrun.^{[citation needed]} The real-time technique emphasizes auditory streams, which, along with soundscapes, inform his aesthetic.^{[citation needed]}

Truax is now professor emeritus of Simon Fraser University, where he taught both electroacoustic music and acoustic communication . He was one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project. His students include composers Jean Piché, David Monacchi, Michael Vincent, Paul Dolden, Susan Frykberg, Charles Wilkinson, and John Oswald.^{[citation needed]}

Selected compositions

• The Blind Man (1979)
• Riverrun (1986, Wergo WER 2017-50)
• Wings of Nike (1987, Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-9401 and Perspectives of New Music CD PNM 28)
• Tongues of Angels (1988, Centrediscs CMC CD-4793)
• Beauty and the Beast (1989, Cambridge Street Records CSR-CD 9601)
• Pacific (1990, Cambridge Street Records CSR CD-9101)
• Pacific Fanfare (1996)
• Wings of Fire for female cellist and two digital soundtracks including the Joy Kirstin poem "Wings of Fire" read by Ellie Epp (1996)
• Androgyne, Mon Amour for amplified male double bass player and two digital soundtracks including text from Tennessee Williams' 1977 book of the same title read by Douglas Huffman (1997)

References

Further reading

• Interview with Truax by Toru Iwatake (online version), accessed 4 February 2010 Print version: Computer Music Journal, 18(3), 1994, 17–24.
• Interview Asymmetry Music Magazine, accessed 4 February 2010

External links

• "Barry Truax: Electroacoustic Composer & Acoustic Communication Researcher", Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

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Barry Truax (1947) es un compositor canadiense especializado en las implementaciones en tiempo real de la síntesis granular, a menudo de sonidos grabados y paisajes sonoros. En 1986 desarrolló la primera implementación en tiempo real de la síntesis granular. Hizo la primera obra hecha con síntesis granular hecha con base en sonidos pregrabados, Wings of Nike en 1987 y fue el primer compositor en explorar el área entre la síntesis granular sincrónica y asincrónica en Riverrun, de 1986. La técnica en tiempo real sigue o enfatiza en las corrientes auditorías, que junto con los paisajes sonoros forman parte importante de su estética. Truax enseña música electroacústica, música por computador y comunicación acústica en la Universidad Simon Fraser en Canadá. Fue uno de los miembros fundadores junto con Raymond Murray Schaffer del World Soundscape Project.[1]

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