Richard Boulanger

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Full Name	Richard Boulanger
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Nov 10, 1956(1956-11-10)
Age	68
Birthplace	Fall River
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Scorpio

Richard Boulanger Biography

Richard Boulanger is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 10, 1956 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. Richard Charles Boulanger, born November 10, 1956, is an electronic musician, author, and composer. He was a key player in the development and maintenance of Csound’s audio programming language and is closely associated with Barry Vercoe and Max Mathews, computer music gurus.

Boulanger composed the first vocal composition to use the microtonal Bohlen­Pierce scale in 1990. It was called Solemn Song for Evening. The radio baton is also featured on the composition. His compositions can be found on several albums, including iChamber, Centaur Records 2003: Virtual Encounters and Electro-Acoustic music, Vol. 1 (Neuma 1990: From Temporal Silence), as well as his interactive orchestral chamber and orchestral music compositions, which were premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Seoul Opera House and the Beijing Central Conservatory. The Krakow and Moscow Symphonies premiered Boulanger’s Radio Baton, and PowerGlove Concerto.

At Moogfest 2017, Boulanger was part of the Berklee College of Music delegation that presented technology for modular synthesizer ensembles, primarily developed by one of Boulanger’s proteges and current Berklee faculty Matthew Davidson. Boulanger additionally presented “The Sounds of Dreaming”, a multi-episodic electronic music opera written, produced, and performed with Nona Hendryx. The project featured custom performance controller systems involving Max/MSP/Jitter, OSC, live video synthesis, DMX lighting and Arduino instruments developed by Boulanger and his students. A revised version of the opera was presented in August 2017 at MASS MoCA in collaboration with performance artist Nick Cave.

Boulanger has been teaching electronic music at Berklee College of Music since

1986. He has also previously taught at Brown University and New York University. Boulanger continues to speak at music and audio events, including the International Csound Conferences and Audio Engineering Society conventions. He is a strong advocate for integrating music technology and music therapy, which he developed with students. He presented at the Berklee Music & Science Symposium in 2013 and at the inaugural Voltage Connect Conference 2017 by Berklee Electronic Production & Design department. Boulanger and Michael Bierylo (chairmen of Berklee’s Electronic Production & Design) visited Shanghai Vocational School of Contemporary Music in October of that year and presented at the 43rd International Computer Music Conference.

Richard Boulanger Net Worth

Richard Boulanger is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Boulanger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Boulanger graduated from Somerset High School in 1975. He then attended New England Conservatory of Music, where he was an undergraduate. His thesis was a commission from Alan R. Pearlman for Newton Symphony. It was entitled “Three Soundscapes For Two Arp 2600 Synthesizers And Orchestra.” He completed a Master’s degree in composition at Virginia Commonwealth University. Allan Blank was one of his professors. After that, he received a PhD in computer- musicology from the University of California in San Diego. There he worked as a researcher at the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research. Boulanger continued his computer music research in Bell Labs, at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics of Stanford University, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and Interval Research at IBM. Boulanger was appointed a Fulbright Professor at the Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland in 1989.

Boulanger began studying at the MIT Experimental Music Studion with Barry Vercoe in 1979. He also worked alongside fellow computer musician John ffitch. Boulanger, while working with Vercoe on the first Csound composition Trapped In Convert, was written originally using MUSIC 11. This is the precursor to Csound. This piece was portable to Csound in 1986. Boulanger’s composition Three Chapters from The Book of Dreams won first prize in 1986’s NEWCOMP International Computer Music Competition.

For me, music is a medium through which the inner spiritual essence of all things is revealed and shared. Compositionally, I am interested in extending the voice of the traditional performer through technological means to produce a music which connects with the past, lives in the present and speaks to the future. Educationally, I am interested in helping students see technology as the most powerful instrument for the exploration, discovery, and realization of their essential musical nature – their inner voice.

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