Photo Gallery

A Life in Sound & Vision

Five decades of performance, collaboration, teaching, and invention — from the Radio Baton at Bell Labs to the stages of Moscow, Krakow, and the Metaverse.

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Portraits
Dr. Boulanger formal portrait in suit
Portrait · Formal Formal portrait — Doepfer modular systems behind
Dr. Boulanger professional headshot
Portrait · Headshot Professional headshot
Dr. Boulanger with headphones smiling
Portrait · Headphones Headphones on — the color companion to the B&W classic
Dr. Boulanger warm smiling headshot
Portrait · Headshot Warm smile — ready to teach
Dr. Boulanger in bow tie
Portrait · Event Dressed for the occasion — bow tie and pocket square
Dr. Boulanger smiling in studio
Portrait · Studio A warm smile — the studio is home
Dr. Boulanger with modular cables
Portrait · Modular Cables looped — the modular studio as portrait backdrop
Early portrait with Radio Baton batons
Portrait · Early Career An early portrait — Radio Baton batons in hand
Dr. Boulanger seated in studio with glasses
Portrait · Studio In the studio — the full synthesis world behind him
Dr. Boulanger arms crossed
Portrait Arms crossed — confidence and the collection behind
Dr. Boulanger at the desk
Portrait · Studio At the desk — the studio workspace in full frame
Dr. Boulanger holding
Portrait In the studio — a moment of reflection
Dr. Boulanger leaning
Portrait Leaning in — the studio close behind
Dr. Boulanger playful portrait
Portrait Playful — the instruments always close by
Dr. Boulanger portrait 1
Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger
Dr. Boulanger portrait 2
Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger
Dr. Boulanger standing on patio
Portrait · Outdoor Arms crossed, glasses off — a moment outside the studio
Dr. Boulanger standing in garden
Portrait · Outdoor In the garden — holding his glasses, easy and relaxed
Dr. Boulanger sitting on stairs with Radio Batons
Portrait · Radio Baton Sitting on the stairs — two Radio Batons in hand
Dr. Boulanger holding ARP Educational Keyboard
Portrait · ARP Legacy The ARP Educational Keyboard — Pearlman's legacy, held with reverence
Dr. Boulanger laughing at the keyboard
Portrait · Studio At the keyboard — joy and the Csound Book in the same frame
Dr. Boulanger in suit with Eurorack modular
Portrait · Eurorack Suited up — Doepfer A-100 and Moog in the background
Dr. Boulanger with Eurorack modular in suit
Portrait · Eurorack Beside the Doepfer A-100 — dressed for the occasion
Dr. Boulanger holding Radio Baton batons and Wii remote
Portrait · Radio Baton Batons in hand — Radio Baton meets Wii remote, vintage synthesis behind
Dr. Boulanger at desk holding batons
Portrait · Studio At the studio desk — Radio Baton batons, Csound running
Dr. Boulanger with Eurorack cables
Portrait · Eurorack Cables draped like a garland — laughing in the modular racks
Dr. Boulanger smiling with cables
Portrait · Eurorack Cables as accessories — pure joy in the patch
Dr. Boulanger wearing glasses, Pearlman gear behind
Portrait · Pearlman Legacy The ARP / Pearlman shelf — a living tribute behind the lens
Dr. Boulanger in the studio
Portrait · Studio In the studio — surrounded by the instrument collection
Dr. Boulanger in the studio with ARPs
Portrait · Studio In the studio — decades of synthesis history on the walls
Dr. Boulanger leaning in the studio
Portrait · Studio In the studio — the full instrument collection behind
Dr. Boulanger in the full studio
Portrait · Studio The full studio — synthesizers, monitors, and a lifetime of sound
Dr. Boulanger in studio holding glasses
Portrait · Studio In the studio — Eurorack modular systems behind
Dr. Boulanger with his books in the studio
Portrait · Studio Holding The Csound Book and The Audio Programming Book
Dr. Boulanger at keyboard with The Csound Book
Portrait · Studio At the keyboard — The Csound Book, Boulanger, Editor
Dr. Boulanger with modular synthesis cables
Portrait · Modular Working the patch — Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular System
Dr. Richard Boulanger portrait
Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger
Dr. Boulanger performing
Portrait · Performance In the act — gesture and electronics unified
Dr. Boulanger performing 2
Portrait · Performance Deep focus — the performance as meditation
Dr. Boulanger with Radio Baton
Radio Baton With the Max Mathews Radio Baton
Studio & Lab
The full Boulanger studio
Studio · Full View The studio in full — both MIT Press books in the foreground, Doepfer racks towering above
Studio long shot 1
Studio · Long Shot The studio from end to end — every instrument in frame
Boulanger Studio panorama
Studio · Panorama The full panorama — wall-to-wall Eurorack, vintage synthesis, mixers, and monitors
Studio long shot 2
Studio · Long Shot Another angle — the full studio in one sweep
Studio long shot 3
Studio · Long Shot From another vantage — the racks and instruments fill the room
Studio long shot 4
Studio · Long Shot The full room — decades of synthesis history packed wall to wall
Modular synthesis close-up
Studio · Modular The Doepfer A-100 — modules, cables, and the logic of synthesis
Solo performance on modular synthesizer
Performance · Solo Modular Solo performance on the modular — the patch and the player unified
Eurorack jam at F12
Performance · Eurorack Jam Eurorack jam at F12 — the modular in full flight
Eurorack jam at F12 #2
Performance · Eurorack Jam Another moment — the synthesis always in motion
The Boulanger Instrument Center
Studio · Instrument Center The Instrument Center — Eurorack modular synthesis, mixers, and monitors
Modular rack in the dark with lights glowing
Studio · Night The rack at night — Doepfer A-100 systems lit up, Csound on iPad, sequencers glowing
Designing sound surrounded by modular systems
Studio · Design Session Surrounded — Doepfer A-100 systems from every angle
Boulanger Teaching Area wide view
Studio · Teaching Area The teaching space — guitars, Csound, biosensors, and 40 years of accumulated magic
Boulanger with Davidson
Studio · Collaboration Dr. Boulanger and Davidson — a collaboration in the studio
Dr. Boulanger with Philip B in Ireland
Collaboration · Ireland Dr. Boulanger and Philip B in Ireland — the music travels
Dr. Boulanger at the studio desk with modular system
Studio · Desk The EPD studio desk — modular system, dual displays, awards and scores above
Boulanger Multi-Cam Multi-Zone Teaching Space
Teaching Space Multi-Cam, Multi-Zone — Csound on screen, biosensors at the ready
Modular synthesis workbench close-up
Studio · Workbench The workbench — Doepfer A-100, open circuit boards, and the Radio Baton sensor
SoundEmotion squares
Studio · SoundEmotion SoundEmotion — the visual language of sound
Performance
Dr. Boulanger performing in dark with modular
Performance · Live Emerging from the darkness — the synthesis rack aglow
Dr. Boulanger intense focus during performance
Performance · Live Lit from below — total immersion in the sound
ICSC 2019 performance
Performance · ICSC 2019 International Csound Conference 2019 — photo © Maurizio Tagliatesta
Dr. Boulanger performing with modular synthesizer
Performance · Modular Synthesis The full physical immersion of live modular synthesis
Dr. Boulanger patching two Doepfer modular systems
Performance · Modular Patching the Doepfer A-100 — two systems, one vision
Moscow keynote presentation
Performance · Moscow Moscow keynote — modular synthesis meets international stage
Heartbeats full ensemble performance
Performance · Heartbeats Full ensemble soundcheck — modular synthesis, cello, and live electronics
Heartbeats cello and Radio Baton performance
Performance · Radio Baton Heartbeats — Radio Baton conducting, Kari Juusela on cello
Heartbeats soundcheck at mixing board
Performance · Soundcheck Heartbeats soundcheck — headphones on, every cable in place
Boulanger and Kari Juusela on stage
Performance · Kari Juusela With Kari Juusela — cello and live electronics, studio projections behind
Stage performance with cello and Radio Baton
Performance · Stage Radio Baton on stage — cello, electronics, and projection behind
Red-lit live performance
Performance · Live Red-lit focus — iPad controllers and live electronics
B&W stage performance profile
Performance · B&W Profile in black and white — the electronics rack filling the frame
Stylized posterized performance
Performance · Stylized The intensity of live electronics — stylized in vivid contrast
Kari Juusela cello wide stage shot
Performance · Wide Stage Wide stage — cello and Radio Baton, the full performance in frame
Cello and Radio Baton on stage
Performance · Cello & Baton Cello and Radio Baton — acoustic and electronic in dialogue
FEMF WiiMote Quartet
Performance · WiiMote Quartet FEMF WiiMote Quartet — Joo Won Park, Jim Sain, Matt Nolan, Dr. Boulanger
Boulanger and Kari Juusela BPC 1
Performance · BPC With Kari Juusela at the Berklee Performance Center
Boulanger and Kari Juusela BPC 2
Performance · BPC With Kari Juusela — another moment from the Berklee Performance Center
Athens Concert baton controlled visuals
Performance · Athens Athens Concert — Radio Baton-controlled visuals with Luigi Castelli
Athens Concert baton visuals 2
Performance · Athens The visuals respond — Radio Baton gesture as image
Athens Concert baton duet with Castelli
Performance · Athens · Duet Two batons — Dr. Boulanger and Luigi Castelli in Radio Baton duet
Athens Concert with Nassos Vynios
Performance · Athens With Nassos Vynios — Athens concert
Dr. Boulanger singing OutCries Athens
Performance · Athens · Voice Singing OutCries — an unexpected voice on the Athens stage
With Nona Hendrix and Richard Devine BPC
Performance · BPC With Nona Hendrix and Richard Devine — Berklee Performance Center
BPC concert 2
Performance · BPC On stage with Nona and Richard — another moment
BPC concert 3
Performance · BPC Three forces — Dr. Boulanger, Nona Hendrix, Richard Devine
BPC concert 4
Performance · BPC Stage energy — the BPC at full power
BPC concert 5
Performance · BPC The performance builds — BPC concert
BPC concert 6
Performance · BPC BPC concert — live and electric
BPC concert 7
Performance · BPC BPC — a landmark night
BPC concert 8
Performance · BPC BPC — the energy of the night
BPC concert 9
Performance · BPC BPC — closing frames of a landmark event
BPC concert 10
Performance · BPC The final frame — a night to remember
First Csound Conference Hanover stage
Performance · 1st Csound Conference Hanover 2011 — the First International Csound Conference stage
Hanover Germany stage
Performance · Hanover On stage in Hanover — the Csound world gathered in one room
UC Santa Barbara Concert 1
Performance · UC Santa Barbara Thomas Hass, Takahiko Tsuchiya, Dr. Boulanger — UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara Concert 2
Performance · UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara — another moment from the concert
UC Santa Barbara Concert 3
Performance · UC Santa Barbara The ensemble in full — UC Santa Barbara concert
The Radio Baton & PowerGlove
Dr. Boulanger with Radio Baton, full studio behind
Radio Baton · Portrait Batons in hand — the Max Mathews instrument at home in the studio
Dr. Boulanger suited with Radio Baton
Radio Baton · Portrait Concert-ready — suited up with the Radio Baton
Boulanger and Mathews holding the Radio Baton prototype
Radio Baton · Max Mathews With Max Mathews — holding the original prototype together
PowerGlove and Radio Baton together
Radio Baton · PowerGlove PowerGlove meets Radio Baton — dual-controller performance
PowerGlove with Radio Baton and MaxMSP
PowerGlove · MaxMSP PowerGlove + Radio Baton — MaxMSP on screen, fully live
Radio Baton close-up of sensing plate and rods
Radio Baton · Instrument Gold rods, foam tips, sensor grid — Max Mathews' invention in detail
Radio Baton backstage on stand
Radio Baton · Backstage At rest — the sensing plate and batons, backstage before the performance
Stanford Radio Baton commemorative poster
Radio Baton · History The Stanford CCRMA commemorative poster — 40 years of the Radio Baton
Dr. Boulanger playing Radio Baton in blue shirt
Radio Baton · Playing Blue shirt, batons up — ARP synthesis rack behind
Dr. Boulanger with Radio Baton yellow batons
Radio Baton · Portrait The yellow ball-tipped batons — the classic Radio Baton portrait
Live Radio Baton performance
Radio Baton · Live Deep focus over the plate — red and blue tips in the dark
Early Radio Baton portrait
Radio Baton · Early Career Early days — green and yellow tips, the instrument newly discovered
Early Radio Baton portrait 2
Radio Baton · Early Career Reflected in the plate — the instrument intimate in the hands
Radio Baton multiple exposure performance
Radio Baton · Motion Multiple exposure — batons blurred in motion, the energy of live performance
Radio Baton performance
Performance · Radio Baton The Radio Baton in performance — from Bell Labs to the world stage
Radio Baton on table
Radio Baton · Instrument On the table — the sensing plate at rest
Radio Baton against wall
Radio Baton · Instrument Against the wall — the instrument at home in the studio
Radio Baton against wall 2
Radio Baton · Instrument The sensing plate and batons — instrument as sculpture
Radio Baton classic
Radio Baton · Classic The Radio Baton — the most expressive MIDI controller ever built
Hanover PowerGlove Trio
PowerGlove Trio · Hanover John ffitch, Takahiko Tsuchiya, Dr. Boulanger — P5 PowerGlove performance, Hanover 2011
Boulanger and Mathews at NIME McGill
Radio Baton · NIME · McGill Dr. Boulanger and Max Mathews at NIME, McGill University
Mentors & Collaborators
Computer Music Pioneers
Computer Music Pioneers John Chowning · Max Mathews · Richard Boulanger · Jean-Claude Risset
With Max Mathews at Dartmouth
Mentors · Max Mathews With Max Mathews at Dartmouth — 25 years of Radio Baton and friendship
Boulanger, Vercoe, ffitch at Maynooth
Csound Pioneers · Maynooth Richard Boulanger · Barry Vercoe · John ffitch — Maynooth University
Max Mathews, Jacob Joaquin, Richard Boulanger at Berklee
Mentors · Berklee Max Mathews, Jacob Joaquin, and Richard Boulanger at Berklee — Krakow Radio Baton poster behind
Max Mathews at Berklee with Boulanger thesis students
Mentors · Students Max Mathews at Berklee with Richard Boulanger's thesis students
Dr. Boulanger with BT
Collaborators · BT With BT (Brian Transeau) — where computer music meets contemporary production
Max Mathews, Jacob Joaquin, Richard Boulanger
Mentors · Archive Max Mathews, Jacob Joaquin, Richard Boulanger — three generations of the Csound tradition
Max Mathews, Miller Puckett, Barry Vercoe 2011
Mentors · Computer Music Legends Max Mathews · Miller Puckett · Barry Vercoe — February 2011
Max Mathews and Miller Puckett
Mentors · Max & Miller Max Mathews and Miller Puckett — the father of computer music with the creator of Pure Data
Boulanger and Mathews Dartmouth Symposium
Mentors · Dartmouth Symposium With Max Mathews at the Dartmouth Symposium
440 Symposium
Mentors · Symposium The 440 Symposium — the field's luminaries gathered
Max Mathews with Berklee 491 students
Mentors · Berklee 491 Max Mathews with Berklee 491 students — the founding father in the classroom
The Four Now
Mentors · The Four Now The Four — the lineage of computer music in one frame
The Four archive
Mentors · Archive The Four — an early gathering
The Now
Mentors · The Now The Now — a more recent gathering
Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe
Mentors · Mathews & Vercoe Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe — the two architects of the field, together
Max Mathews with Greg Thompson
Mentors · Max Mathews Max Mathews with Greg Thompson
Max and Marjorie Mathews with Anaiis
Mentors · Max Mathews · Family Max and Marjorie Mathews at Marion Ave — a personal portrait
Max Mathews at the Computer Museum
Mentors · Computer Museum Max Mathews at the Computer Museum — the founder of computer music in its archive
Max Mathews with Radio Baton 1998
Mentors · Max · 1998 Max Mathews with the Radio Baton, 1998
Max Mathews with Radio Violin 1984
Mentors · Max · 1984 Max Mathews with the Radio Violin, 1984 — Bell Labs
Max Mathews with Radio Baton
Mentors · Max · Baton Max Mathews with the Radio Baton
Max Mathews with Radio Baton 2
Mentors · Max · Baton Another performance portrait — Max and the Radio Baton
Max Mathews with Radio Violin
Mentors · Max · Violin Max Mathews with the Radio Violin — acoustic meets electronic
Max Mathews at Peter Coutts
Mentors · Max · Portrait Max Mathews at Peter Coutts — a candid portrait
Max Mathews in garden
Mentors · Max · Garden Max Mathews in the garden — intimate and at ease
Max Mathews portrait
Mentors · Max Mathews Max Mathews — a portrait
John Pierce portrait 1
Mentors · John Pierce John Pierce — Bell Labs, the patron of computer music
John Pierce portrait 2
Mentors · John Pierce John Pierce — the Bell Labs patron who made it all possible
Students & Collaborators
Hass, Ray, Tsuchiya at Open Path Music
Students · Open Path Music Thomas Hass · Lee Ray · Takahiko Tsuchiya — Open Path Music
Hass, Ray, Tsuchiya Open Path 2
Students · Open Path Another session — Hass, Ray, Tsuchiya at Open Path
Lee Ray at Open Path
Students · Lee Ray Lee Ray at Open Path — producing and collaborating
Lee Ray behind the glass at Open Path
Students · Lee Ray Behind the glass at Open Path — Lee Ray at the console
Lee Ray with modular synths at Open Path
Students · Lee Ray · Modular Lee Ray with the modulars — synthesis and production united
Takahiko violin and PowerGlove
Students · Takahiko · Violin & Glove Takahiko's violin and PowerGlove — acoustic meets gestural
Thomas Hass performing csGrain
Students · Thomas Hass · csGrain Thomas Hass with csGrain — iOS Csound in the Heartbeats ensemble
BT with Blind Guys Heartbeats
Students · Heartbeats · BT Heartbeats — BT with the Blind Guys, the full ensemble on stage
BT in Heartbeats ensemble
Students · BT · Heartbeats BT in Heartbeats — producer and live performer
Takahiko, Deepak, Boulanger BPC
Students · BPC Takahiko Tsuchiya, Deepak, and Dr. Boulanger at the Berklee Performance Center
Takahiko, Deepak, Boulanger, Konopka BPC
Students · BPC Tsuchiya · Deepak · Boulanger · Konopka — Berklee Performance Center
csGrain with Nona Hendrix
Students · csGrain · Nona Hendrix csGrain in the hands of Nona Hendrix — Csound meets rock legend
csGrain main screen iOS
Students · csGrain · iOS csGrain main screen — Csound granular synthesis on iOS
csGrain random mode
Students · csGrain · Random csGrain in random mode — granular synthesis, fully unleashed
CsoundForLive screenshot
CsoundForLive · Interface CsoundForLive in Ableton Live — 120+ plugins, Csound as the engine
CsoundForLive Hanover flyer
CsoundForLive · Hanover 2011 Hanover premiere — the First International Csound Conference concert flyer
Circuit Bending & Teaching Lab
Circuit bending workshop at night
Teaching · Circuit Bending Workshop night — students gathered for hardware hacking and sound design
Circuit bending lab bench
Teaching · Lab Bench The lab bench — components, breadboards, and soldering irons
Circuit bending menu 1
Teaching · CB Menu Workshop module menu — the range of circuit bending projects
Circuit bending menu 2
Teaching · CB Menu Circuit Bending workshop — another module selection
Circuit bending menu 3
Teaching · CB Menu Workshop menu — circuit bending modules and student projects
Circuit bending menu 4
Teaching · CB Menu Building a sonic vocabulary from hardware
Circuit bending with Arduino
Teaching · Arduino Arduino at the center — microcontroller-driven sound design
Furby circuit bent with Arduino
Teaching · Furby Furby + Arduino — a toy becomes an instrument
Csound chip embedded synthesis
Teaching · Csound on Chip Csound on a chip — embedded synthesis at the hardware level
FM synthesis breadboard build
Teaching · FM Synthesis FM synthesis on a breadboard — Chowning's theory in hardware
Circuits and modular synthesis
Teaching · Circuits & Modular Circuits and modular synthesis — design meets performance
Berklee Maker Space students at work 1
Teaching · Maker Space Berklee Maker Space — students building custom hardware instruments
Berklee Maker Space students at work 2
Teaching · Maker Space More students at work — the Berklee hardware lab in session
Light sensor control
Teaching · Light Sensor Light sensor control — photosensors as synthesis controllers
Jamming with custom DSP
Teaching · Custom DSP Jamming with custom DSP — students performing their own hardware
Daisy Pod with Trill Sensors
Teaching · Daisy Pod · Trill Daisy Pod with Trill Sensors — touch control meets embedded Csound
Breadboard fun at Berklee Maker Space
Teaching · Breadboard Breadboard fun — building circuits from scratch
Bent Elenco
Teaching · Bent Elenco A bent Elenco — educational kit becomes electronic instrument
Bela Trill hardware
Teaching · Bela · Trill HW Bela + Trill — embedded audio and touch sensing in one board