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Curtis Roads

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Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author, and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. Career and music Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, San Diego, and Paris 8 University. He is the former chair and vice chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program and former associate director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He had previously taught at the University of Naples Federico II, Publications * Roads, Curtis (2015). Composing Electronic Music. Oxford University Press. * Roads, Curtis (2001). Microsound. Cambridge: MIT Press. * Roads, Curtis (1996). The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press. * Roads, Curtis, Pope, Stephen Travis, Piccialli, Aldo and De Poli, Giovanni, eds (1997). Musical Signal Processing. Routledge. * Roads, Curtis and Strawn, John, eds (1987). Foundations of Computer Music. MIT Press. Compositions *POINT LINE CLOUD (2005) @Asphodel (Excerpt @ youtube) *Half-life (1998–1999) *Clang-Tint (1991–1994) *nscor (1980) Ref

Cuthbert Hely

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Cuthbert Hely was an English lutenist and composer who was active during the first half of the 17th century. Life Nothing so far is known about his life. It may be assumed, though, that Hely was taught to play the lute by musicians of John Dowland’s generation. If so, Cuthbert Hely may have been born around 1570. It was believed that Hely may have been Lord Herbert’s lute teacher and that he was the compiler of Lord Herbert’s lute book. Both these points seem unlikely, though, as Lord Herbert, by his own account, learned the lute around 1603 “with very little or no teaching,” and Hely’s contributions to Lord Herbert’s lute book are only found in the hand of “Scribe C,” whose entries are the latest in the manuscript, datable to 1639-1640. It is uncertain if the composer is identical with a certain Cuthbert Hely who lived in Ludlow, England, during this era. Works Eight compositions by Cuthbert Hely - four fantasias, three preludes, and a sarabande - are to be found in the lute book owned by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Only one other work of Cuthbert Hely has been known so far, an air in four parts found in GB-Lbl Add.18940, a manuscript source dated to about 1650. Although onl