Richard Boulanger

Richard Boulanger (born 1956) is a composer and professor of "Electronic Production and Design" at Berklee College of Music. He holds a Ph.D. in computer music from the University of California, San Diego, and is associated with computer music gurus Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe. His students include Elaine Walker.

For me, music is a medium through which the inner spiritual essence of all things is revealed and shared. Compositionally, I am interested in extending the voice of the traditional performer through technological means to produce a music which connects with the past, lives in the present and speaks to the future. Educationally, I am interested in helping students see technology as the most powerful instrument for the exploration, discovery, and realization of their essential musical nature – their inner voice.

— Boulanger, ^[1][2]

Boulanger wrote the first vocal composition using the microtonal Bohlen-Pierce scale, "Solemn Song for Evening", which also uses a radio baton. His compositions have appeared on albums including iChamber (Centaur Records, 2003: Virtual Encounters) and Electro-Acoustic Music, Vol. 1 (Neuma, 1990: From Temporal Silence).

Bibliography

• Boulanger (1986). "Toward a New Age of Performance: Reading the Book of Dreams with the Mathews Electronic Violin", Perspectives of New Music 24, no. 2 (Spring–Summer): 130–55. Errata in 25, nos. 1&2 (Winter–Summer 1987): 655.
• Boulanger, ed. (1999) The Csound Book. ISBN 978-0262522618.
• Boulanger, ed. (2010). The Audio Programming Book. ISBN 978-0262014465.

References

External links

• "Dr. Richard Boulanger", EPD.Berklee.edu.
• BoulangerLabs.com.
• "The Csound Book: Chapter One", CSounds.com.
• Boulanger's "Solemn Song for Evening" on YouTube (& )

Computer music
People	Marc Battier Richard Boulanger David Cope John Chowning Giuseppe di Giugno Charles Dodge Gottfried Michael Koenig Paul Lansky Max Mathews Miller Puckette Roger Reynolds Jean-Claude Risset Curtis Roads Laurie Spiegel The Hub Trimpin Barry Vercoe Iannis Xenakis
Programs and instruments	ChucK Cmix Csound HMSL Kyma Max/MSP MIDI controller Pure Data Music Mouse MUSIC-N Radiodrum SuperCollider UPIC
Places	Bell Labs CCRMA CEMAMu Computer Music Center at Columbia IRCAM Princeton Sound Lab Oberlin TIMARA Labs
Techniques	Algorithmic composition Sound synthesis
Compositions	Illiac Suite Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco