| Biography
Barry Vercoe heads the Media Lab's Music, Mind and Machine group, which has
developed structured audio technology capable of delivering the most complex,
high-quality digital sounds quickly and at lower bandwidths, without losing
quality. This technology has recently been incorporated into MPEG-4, the
world's first international standard for sound synthesis. Vercoe is credited
with training virtually an entire generation of young composers in computer
sound manipulation. He pioneered the creation of synthetic music with the
development of the Csound software-synthesis language.
Before coming to MIT, Vercoe taught at Oberlin College Conservatory and Yale
School of Music. He holds a PhD in music composition, and was
composer-in-residence for the Seattle-Tacoma public school system, where he
wrote his first music involving computer performance. He is author of several
languages for digital audio processing, and has hosted numerous workshops for
composers and technology at MIT.
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