Richard Boulanger

Richard Charles Boulanger (born November 10, 1956) is a composer, author, and electronic musician. He is a key figure in the development of the audio programming language Csound, and is associated with computer music pioneers Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe.

Richard Charles Boulanger

(1956-11-10) November 10, 1956
Fall River, Massachusetts, United States

Electronic, Computer music

Composer, musician, professor

Synthesizer, guitar, trumpet, radio baton, controllers

www.csounds.com/boulanger

Biography[edit]

Education[edit]

After graduating from Somerset High School in 1974,^[1] Boulanger attended New England Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate, where his thesis was a commission by Alan R. Pearlman^[2] for the Newton Symphony titled "Three Soundscapes for Two Arp 2600 Synthesizers and Orchestra".^[3] After pursuing a Master's in composition from Virginia Commonwealth University, where Allan Blank was amongst his professors, he obtained a PhD in computer music from the University of California, San Diego^[4] where he worked at the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research. Boulanger continued his computer music research at Bell Labs, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Interval Research, IBM, and One Laptop per Child.^[5] In 1989, Boulanger became a Fulbright professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland.^[3]

Boulanger's teachers include Pauline Oliveros,^[6] Aaron Copland, and Hugo Norden.^[1]

Boulanger, Richard, ed. (March 6, 2000). The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming. MIT Press. 978-0262522618.

ISBN

Boulanger, Richard; , eds. (October 22, 2010). The Audio Programming Book. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262014465.

Lazzarini, Victor

Works[edit]

Selected radio baton compositions[edit]

From the Csounds website:^[35]

Boulanger (1986). "Toward a New Age of Performance: Reading the Book of Dreams with the Mathews Electronic Violin", 24, no. 2 (Spring–Summer): 130–155. Errata in 25, nos. 1&2 (Winter–Summer 1987): 655.

Perspectives of New Music

Boulanger, ed. (1999) The Book. ISBN 978-0262522618.

Csound

Boulanger, ed. (2010). The Book. ISBN 978-0262014465.

Audio Programming

"", EPD.Berklee.edu.

Dr. Richard Boulanger

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BoulangerLabs.com

"", CSounds.com.

The Csound Book: Chapter One

on YouTube (& [1])

Boulanger's "Solemn Song for Evening"

The Csound page in the OLPC wiki, with extra tutorials and XO-specific information and Boulanger's TOOTs