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Barry Truax

Barry Truax

Barry Truax has been played on NTS shows including Shells Spent w/ Noble Drew Ali, with The Wings Of Nike first played on 30 November 2015.

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

Truax teaches both electroacoustic music and computer music and acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University. He was one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project. His students include John Oswald.

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Barry Truax

Barry Truax has been played on NTS shows including Shells Spent w/ Noble Drew Ali, with The Wings Of Nike first played on 30 November 2015.

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

Truax teaches both electroacoustic music and computer music and acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University. He was one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project. His students include John Oswald.

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Riverrun
Barry Truax
Cambridge Street Records1987
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Melbourne1981
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Cambridge Street Records1985
The Wings Of Nike
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Cambridge Street Records1991