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Barry Truax

Barry Truax has been played on NTS shows including Shells Spent w/ Noble Drew Ali, with The Wings Of Nike first played on 30 November 2015.

Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. He developed the first ever implementation of real-time granular synthesis, in 1986, the first to use a sample as the source of a granular composition in 1987's Wings of Nike, and was the first composer to explore the range between synchronic and asynchronic granular synthesis in 1986's Riverrun. The real-time technique suites or emphasizes auditory streams, which,…

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Androgyny (1978)
Barry Truax
Melbourne1981
Androgyny (1978)
Barry TruaxMelbourne1981
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Nightwatch
Barry Truax
Cambridge Street Records1985
Nightwatch
Barry TruaxCambridge Street Records1985
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The Wings Of Nike
Barry Truax
Cambridge Street Records1991
The Wings Of Nike
Barry TruaxCambridge Street Records1991
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