Curtis Roads has been played on NTS shows including Music To Ease Your Disease, with Tenth Vortex (2000) first played on 16 February 2017.

Curtis Roads is a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis, author, and computer programmer. (CCMIX Paris)

He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, San Diego and teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has previously taught at the University of Naples "Federico II", Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX, Center for the Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis), and the University of Paris VIII….