Raphael Radna

Bio

Raphael Radna is a composer and computer music researcher working in acousmatic music, mixed music, computer-assisted composition, spatial audio, and creative music software development. He has presented music and research worldwide in such venues as the International Computer Music Conference, the Digital Audio FX Conference, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, the SEAMUS National Conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Visiones Sonoras Festival of Music and New Technologies; and has collaborated with such artists as Erin McKibben, Antonina Styczeń, Shanna Pranaitis, HOCKET, and the Isaura String Quartet. His music technology work includes the Space Control spatialization software, the Xenos stochastic synthesizer, and projects for prominent developers Arturia and Cycling ‘74. His chapter on Xenos appears in the volume Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies from Open Book Publishers.

Radna holds a BA cum laude in Music from Vassar College, an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and an MS in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he is currently a PhD candidate in Music Composition. He has had the privilege of studying with João Pedro Oliveira, Curtis Roads, and Clarence Barlow during his time at UCSB.