Barry Truax

Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication (and formerly the School of Contemporary Arts) at Simon Fraser University, where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. He worked with the World Soundscape Project, editing their Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published the book Acoustic Communication dealing with sound and technology. As a composer, Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for solo works, musical theater pieces, and those with live artists or computer graphics. In 1991, his work, Riverrun, was awarded the Mastery at the International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France. Truax's multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently performed at concerts and festivals around the world. Since his retirement in 2015, Barry has been the Edgard Varèse Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and Guest Composer at the 2016 BEAST Festival in Birmingham, as well as similar events in Hamburg, Lisbon, Milan, Salzburg, L'Aquila and Korea. He has edited two thematic issues on soundscape composition for Cambridge's Organized Sound magazine, and is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Sounding Art.