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Dr. Barry Vercoe

Professor ofMedia Arts & Sciences, Co-founder MIT Media Lab  - Expert in digital audio processing, music programming languages and MPEG-4 structured audio.

Barry Vercoe is one of the pioneers of the field of Computer Music, and an expert in digital audio processing and real-time synthesis. He is Professor of Music and of Media Arts & Sciences at MIT. In 1973 he founded the MIT Experimental Music Studio, the first all-digital music production facility, and is the author of several Computer Music synthesis languages, including Music360, Music-11, and Csound -- now the mostly widely used software synthesis language in the world. In 1984 he was a co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he has continued research in Intelligent Music Systems, Synthetic Performers, Machine Listening, and Internet Audio applications.

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983, Professor Vercoe worked with Pierre Boulez in Paris at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), where he developed the world's first Automatic Accompanist (Synthetic Performer). A later version of this was featured on Nova's Discover the World of Science. The innovation also won the Computer World / Smithsonian Award for Media Arts in 1992.

Most recently Vercoe's Csound (and its descendent NetSound) has provided the underlying technology for the Structure Audio component of the new MPEG-4 standard for digital audio transmission and production. This innovative technology is over 10 times more compact than MP3.

Professor Vercoe hosted the First International Conference for Computer Music in 1976, and is the author of numerous technical papers in the field. He holds a PhD in Music Composition, and his MIT Summer Workshops in Computer Music have launched many scientists/musicians into the field.

As a consultant for Analog Devices Inc, Vercoe has recently developed Extended Csound, putting his Csound technology onto high-speed real-time DSP chips, now in use in high-profile music production in the US and Japan, by clients such as Denon Corporation.