Interview with Brad Garton

by Sebastian Berweck

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Director of the Computer Music Center (formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center) in Columbia University's Department of Music. Interviewed in Garton's Dodge Hall office, 4 January 2010.

Biography

Brad Garton serves as Director of the Computer Music Center (formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center). He has assisted in the establishment and development of a number of computer music studios throughout the world, and is an active contributor to the greater community of computer musicians / researchers, formerly serving on the Board of Directors of the International Computer Music Association as editor (with Robert Rowe) of the ICMA newsletter and artistic director/co-organizer of several high-profile festivals and conferences of new computer music. His current work includes focused research on the modeling and enhancement of acoustic spaces as well as the modeling of human musical performance on various virtual “instruments”. He is also the primary developer (with Dave Topper) of RTcmix, a real-time music synthesis / signal-processing language. The point of all this work is to continue to make fun new pieces of music, which he does every day.