Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Robert Rowe: Director, Music Composition

Robert Rowe lived and worked in Europe from 1978 to 1987, associated with the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the ASKO Ensemble of Amsterdam, and IRCAM in Paris, where he developed control level software for the 4X machine. In 1990 his composition Flood Gate won first prize in the "live electroacoustic" category of the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition. In 1991 he became the first composer to complete the Ph.D. in Music and Cognition at the MIT Media Laboratory and is currently Professor and Associate Director of the Music Technology program at New York University. His music is performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan and is available on compact discs from New World, Romeo, Quindecim, Harmonia Mundi and the International Computer Music Association. The MIT Press has published his two book/CD-ROM projects : Interactive Music Systems (1993), and Machine Musicianship (2001). Currently he is at work on new pieces for Sofia Asuncion Claro (harp) and Mark Hetzler (trombone). Robert Rowe is artistic director of the biannual Interactive Arts Performance Series which unites computers, video, music, and other arts in live performance.
Back to Top

Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - (212) 998-5424