12 Facts About Richard Boulanger

Richard Charles Boulanger was born on November 10,1956 and is a composer, author, and electronic musician.

Richard Boulanger 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.

In 1989, Richard Boulanger became a Fulbright professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland.

Richard Boulanger's teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Aaron Copland, and Hugo Norden.

Richard Boulanger started studying at the MIT Experimental Music Studion in 1979 with Barry Vercoe, where he worked with fellow computer musician John Fitch.

Richard Boulanger's compositions have appeared on albums including iChamber and Electro-Acoustic Music, Vol.

Richard Boulanger later composed a concerto for strings and horns with himself as a MUSE soloist.

Richard Boulanger is a published author under the MIT Press, for which he has written and edited two canonical Csound and audio programming textbooks, the latter having been co-edited with Victor Lazzarini.

At Moogfest 2017, Richard Boulanger was part of the Berklee College of Music delegation that presented technology for modular synthesizer ensembles, primarily developed by one of Richard Boulanger's proteges and current Berklee faculty Matthew Davidson.

Richard Boulanger additionally presented The Sounds of Dreaming, a multi-episodic electronic music opera written, produced, and performed with Nona Hendryx.

Since 1986, Richard Boulanger has taught electronic music at Berklee College of Music, and has previously been on faculty at other collegiate institutions such as New York University and Brown University.

Richard Boulanger continues to present regularly at audio and music events including Audio Engineering Society conventions and International Csound Conferences, and is an advocate of integrating music technology with music therapy, some of which he has developed with his students.