Barry Truax
Born: 10th May 1947, Chatham-Kent, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Barry Douglas Truax B. Sc,. M. Mus., DFA (Hon) is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic music, a writer, and a teacher. He is best known for his association with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and his development of granular synthesis using sampled sounds to create multi-channel soundscape compositions, such as Riverrun (1986) and Wings of Nike (1987). He is also known for his books Acoustic Communication (1984, 2001) and the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (1978, 1999).
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