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R. Luke DuBois in front of the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, 2006.
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Background information | |
Birth name | R. Luke DuBois |
Born |
Morristown, New Jersey, United States |
September 10, 1975
Genres | Experimental, Contemporary classical, Improvised music, Electronica, Ambient, Computer Music |
Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist, new media artist |
Instruments | Analog synthesizer, laptop, |
Years active | 1990s–present |
Labels | Caipirinha / Sire, Liquid Sky, Nonesuch, Cantaloupe Music, Cycling '74, Innova |
Associated acts | Freight Elevator Quartet |
Website | www.lukedubois.com |
Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10, 1975, Morristown, New Jersey, United States) is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.
DuBois was born in New Jersey, moving at age 11 to London, England, where he attended the American School in London, before moving to New York in 1993 to attend Columbia University. DuBois holds both a master's (1999) and a doctorate (2003) in music composition from Columbia (studying primarily with Fred Lerdahl and Jonathan Kramer), and worked as a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center until 2008. He has taught interactive music and video performance at a number of institutions, including Columbia, Princeton University, the School of Visual Arts, and the Music Technology and interactive telecommunications programs at New York University. In Fall 2008 he began teaching as a full-time professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where he currently serves as co-director of the Integrated Digital Media program and director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center; his academic position consists of a triple appointment between the Engineering School, Music Technology, and ITP. As a graduate student at Columbia he was a contributor to Real-Time Cmix. Since 2000, he has worked for Cycling '74 on Max/MSP/Jitter.