Dr. Richard Boulanger
Dr. Richard Boulanger was born in 1956 and holds a Ph.D. in ‘Computer Music’ from the University of California at San Diego. There he worked at the Center for Music Experiment’s Computer Audio Research Lab (CARL) and composed the first ever CMUSIC composition entitled Two Movements in C. Since then, he has continued his computer music research at Bell Labs, CCRMA, The MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, Analog Devices, and IBM. Over the years, he has collaborated, concertized, lectured, and published extensively with Max Mathews, Barry Vercoe, John Fitch, and BT (a.k.a. Brian Transeau), and most recently with his son, Dr. Adam Boulanger.
Boulanger has premiered his interactive compositions at the Lincoln Center in New York, and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC; and he has appeared onstage performing his Radio-Baton and MIDI PowerGlove concertos with The Newton Symphony, The New Haven Symphony, The Hamilton Symphony, The Berklee Symphony, The Stanford Symphony, The Krakow Philharmonic and The Moscow Symphony. His music is recorded on the NEUMA, Centaur, and Stanford labels. Boulanger has been teaching at The Berklee College of Music for more than 29 years now; and the music and sound design of his students is all over the television, radio, films, and in the top computer games. At Berklee, “Dr.B.” is a Professor of Electronic Production and Design. His contributions and work have been both recognized and honored with Berklee’s “Faculty of the Year” and Berklee’s “President’s” Awards.
Boulanger has published articles on computer music education and composition in Electronic Musician Magazine and the Computer Music Journal and he has delivered lectures and presented master classes around the world. For the MIT Press, Boulanger has authored and edited the two “foundational” textbooks in the field of Computer Music – The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Programming (2000) and The Audio Programming Book” (2010). Currently he is authoring and editing a new book for MIT Press – Csound Applied – Csound Inside (with a Fall 2016 release target). Over the past years, along with alumni from Berklee, Boulanger has started an audio software company – Boulanger Labs and they are developing and distributing Csound-based music synthesis and signal processing software for the Apple iPad (csGrain, csSpectral, csTouch), audio plugins for Ableton Live (Csound For Live), and stand-alone apps for the Leap Motion.
