Gallery — Dr. Richard Boulanger

Gallery — Updated with New Photos

This gallery has been expanded with a large archive of new photographs — including Max Mathews' original lecture slides, the Athens SYNC Festival, Radio Baton portraits in San Francisco and Boston, phaser filter sessions, collaborators including Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning, Eric Singer, and many more. More photos can be added at any time.

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

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

Performance · Moscow Moscow keynote — modular synthesis meets international stage

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

Performance · Soundcheck Heartbeats soundcheck — headphones on, every cable in place

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

Performance · Live Red-lit focus — iPad controllers and live electronics

Performance · B&W Profile in black and white — the electronics rack filling the frame

Performance · Stylized The intensity of live electronics — stylized in vivid contrast

Performance · Wide Stage Wide stage — cello and Radio Baton, the full performance in frame

Performance · Cello & Baton Cello and Radio Baton — acoustic and electronic in dialogue

Performance · WiiMote Quartet FEMF WiiMote Quartet — Joo Won Park, Jim Sain, Matt Nolan, Dr. Boulanger

Performance · BPC With Kari Juusela at the Berklee Performance Center

Performance · BPC With Kari Juusela — another moment from the Berklee Performance Center

Performance · Athens Athens Concert — Radio Baton-controlled visuals with Luigi Castelli

Performance · Athens The visuals respond — Radio Baton gesture as image

Performance · Athens · Duet Two batons — Dr. Boulanger and Luigi Castelli in Radio Baton duet

Performance · Athens With Nassos Vynios — Athens concert

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

Performance · BPC On stage with Nona and Richard — another moment

Performance · BPC Three forces — Dr. Boulanger, Nona Hendrix, Richard Devine

Performance · BPC Stage energy — the BPC at full power

Performance · BPC The performance builds — BPC concert

Performance · BPC BPC concert — live and electric

Performance · BPC BPC — a landmark night

Performance · BPC BPC — the energy of the night

Performance · BPC BPC — closing frames of a landmark event

Performance · BPC The final frame — a night to remember

Performance · 1st Csound Conference Hanover 2011 — the First International Csound Conference stage

Performance · Hanover On stage in Hanover — the Csound world gathered in one room

Performance · UC Santa Barbara Thomas Hass, Takahiko Tsuchiya, Dr. Boulanger — UC Santa Barbara

Performance · UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara — another moment from the concert

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

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

Radio Baton · PowerGlove PowerGlove meets Radio Baton — dual-controller performance

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 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

Radio Baton · Live Deep focus over the plate — red and blue tips in the dark

Radio Baton · Early Career Early days — green and yellow tips, the instrument newly discovered

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

Performance · Radio Baton The Radio Baton in performance — from Bell Labs to the world stage

Radio Baton · Instrument On the table — the sensing plate at rest

Radio Baton · Instrument Against the wall — the instrument at home in the studio

Radio Baton · Instrument The sensing plate and batons — instrument as sculpture

Radio Baton · Classic The Radio Baton — the most expressive MIDI controller ever built

PowerGlove Trio · Hanover John ffitch, Takahiko Tsuchiya, Dr. Boulanger — P5 PowerGlove performance, Hanover 2011

Radio Baton · NIME · McGill Dr. Boulanger and Max Mathews at NIME, McGill University

Stanford Radio Baton sketch from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Stanford Sketch Original Stanford sketch — the Radio Baton system as Max Mathews designed it

Radio Baton transmitter from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Transmitter The Baton transmitter — from Max Mathews' own lecture slides

Mathews Lecture · Baton Photo The Baton as Max presented it — from his own lecture archive

Radio Baton system diagram from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · System Diagram The full Radio Baton system — Max Mathews' own diagram

Radio Baton circuit from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Circuit The Baton circuit — hand-drawn by Max Mathews

Simple Radio Baton system from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Simple Baton System The simple Baton system — Max's own pedagogical diagram

Simple Radio Baton electronics from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Baton Electronics Simple Baton electronics — Max Mathews' schematic for the instrument

Mathews Lecture · Conductor Program The Conductor Program — Max's software for orchestral MIDI control via Baton

Max Mathews playing Radio Baton in garden

Mathews · Garden Performance Max playing the Baton in the garden — the inventor at home with his instrument

Mathews · Radio Baton 1998 Max Mathews with the Baton in 1998 — the instrument in its mature form

Radio Baton transmitter circuit from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Transmitter Circuit Baton transmitter circuit — the engineering behind the gesture

Radio Baton computer interface from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Baton-Computer Baton to computer — how the gesture becomes sound, in Max's own words

Single channel Radio Baton circuit from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Single Circuit One channel of the Baton — Max Mathews' circuit at its most basic

Simple code Baton Computer from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Simple Code Simple code — the Baton-computer interface as Max wrote it

Simple Conductor MIDI from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Conductor MIDI Simple Conductor — MIDI orchestration via the Radio Baton

Simple improvisation example from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · Improv Example Simple improvisation — a Conductor program example from Max's lecture

Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Poster Avantgarde Tirol — the festival poster, Tirol, Austria

Avantgarde Tirol · Press Avantgarde Tirol in the press — newspaper coverage of the festival

Avantgarde Tirol · Press Coverage The full newspaper story — Avantgarde Tirol in the Austrian press

Avantgarde Tirol · Greg Thompson Greg Thompson at Avantgarde Tirol — collaborator and performer

Avantgarde Tirol · Schaefer Schaefer in performance at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Schaefer Schaefer — another moment at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Schaefer Schaefer in the moment — Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Schaefer Schaefer — Avantgarde Tirol, Austria

Schaefer and Zubuitzski at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Schaefer & Zubuitzski Schaefer and Zubuitzski — two artists in conversation at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Student A student performer at the Avantgarde Tirol workshop

Avantgarde Tirol · Student Another student at work — Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Student Student in performance — Avantgarde Tirol, Austria

Avantgarde Tirol · Student A student performer — Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · Student Another student in flight — Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · All Students The full cohort — all students together at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · All Students The student group — a second gathering at Avantgarde Tirol

Avantgarde Tirol · All Students All together — the Avantgarde Tirol student cohort

Avantgarde Tirol · All Students The full group — Avantgarde Tirol, Austria

Athens & SYNC Festival

Athens SYNC · Rehearsal Setup SYNC Festival rehearsal — the full performance rig assembled in Athens

Athens · Baton in Studio The Radio Baton in Athens — the instrument on tour in Greece

Athens · Nassos Vynios Studio Nassos Vynios' Athens studio — the workspace of Greece's leading computer music composer

Athens SYNC · Lecture Lecturing at the Athens SYNC Festival — the history and future of computer music

Athens SYNC · Program The SYNC Festival program — a landmark event in Greek computer music

Athens · OLPC The OLPC in Athens — the $100 laptop meets Greek audiences at SYNC

Boulanger & Baton — Performance & Portraits

Boulanger with Radio Baton San Francisco

Radio Baton · San Francisco Dr. Boulanger with the Radio Baton in San Francisco — performer and instrument united

Radio Baton · San Francisco Dr. Boulanger and the Radio Baton in San Francisco

Boulanger and Radio Baton San Francisco 2

Radio Baton · San Francisco Another moment — Dr. Boulanger and the Radio Baton in the Bay Area

Boulanger with Radio Baton Boston University 2023

Radio Baton · BU 2023 With the Radio Baton at Boston University, 2023 — the instrument endures

Radio Baton · Performance The Radio Baton in full flight — Dr. Boulanger in performance

Radio Baton · wiiMote Radio Baton and Wii Remote — a dual-controller performance rig

Boulanger with OLPC and Radio Baton at desk

Radio Baton · OLPC · Desk At the desk — the OLPC and Radio Baton, a complete performance system

Boulanger with Radio Baton and MaxMSP at Berklee

Radio Baton · MaxMSP · Berklee Radio Baton and MaxMSP at Berklee — the full performance ecosystem live

Boulanger with Radio Baton and MaxMSP lecture

Radio Baton · MaxMSP · Lecture Demonstrating the Radio Baton and MaxMSP — teaching as performance

Boulanger with Baton Glove MaxMSP Berklee

Radio Baton · Glove · MaxMSP · Berklee Baton · Glove · MaxMSP at Berklee — the full multi-controller system

Radio Baton · MaxMSP · Berklee Dr. Boulanger with Radio Baton and MaxMSP — the performer-educator in his element

Performance · wiiMote · Barry Threw Barry Threw performing with the Wii Remote — gesture control in concert

Performance · wiiMote · Jacob Joaquin Jacob Joaquin with the Wii Remote — gesture as musical expression

Dr. Boulanger wiiMote piece FEMF Florida

Performance · wiiMote · FEMF The wiiMote piece at the Florida Electronic Music Festival

Performance · FEMF · Florida FEMF, Florida — on stage, wide view, the full performance space

Dr. Boulanger performing FEMF Florida 10

Performance · FEMF · Florida FEMF, Florida — another perspective on the live performance

FEMF · La Fiesta Dinner La Fiesta dinner at FEMF — the community of computer music gathered at table

Dr. Boulanger Radio Baton performance Boston University

Radio Baton · Performance · BU Radio Baton in concert at Boston University — the instrument in full flight

Dr. Boulanger with Radio Baton and PowerGlove at Boston University

Radio Baton · PowerGlove · BU Radio Baton and PowerGlove at Boston University — the dual-controller rig, concert-ready

Studio & Lab

Studio · Full View The studio in full — both MIT Press books in the foreground, Doepfer racks towering above

Studio · Long Shot The studio from end to end — every instrument in frame

Studio · Panorama The full panorama — wall-to-wall Eurorack, vintage synthesis, mixers, and monitors

Studio · Long Shot Another angle — the full studio in one sweep

Studio · Long Shot From another vantage — the racks and instruments fill the room

Studio · Long Shot The full room — decades of synthesis history packed wall to wall

Studio · Modular The Doepfer A-100 — modules, cables, and the logic of synthesis

Performance · Solo Modular Solo performance on the modular — the patch and the player unified

Performance · Eurorack Jam Eurorack jam at F12 — the modular in full flight

Performance · Eurorack Jam Another moment — the synthesis always in motion

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

Studio · Teaching Area The teaching space — guitars, Csound, biosensors, and 40 years of accumulated magic

Studio · Collaboration Dr. Boulanger and Davidson — a collaboration in the studio

Collaboration · Ireland Dr. Boulanger and Philip B in Ireland — the music travels

Studio · View A Studio A — instruments, electronics, and decades of discovery

Studio · View B Studio B — synthesis systems lining the walls

Studio · 555 Synth The 555 timer as oscillator — the simplest synthesis building block

Behringer ARP 2600 clone The Blue Marvin

Studio · Blue Marvin The Blue Marvin — Behringer's ARP 2600 clone, an icon reborn

Studio · RCA MK3 · Columbia The RCA MK3 Synthesizer at Columbia — a monument in electronic music history

Studio · OLPC · Radio Baton OLPC XO meets Radio Baton — the $100 laptop as a performance controller

Studio · OLPC · Radio Baton OLPC paired with the Radio Baton — global music education meets gesture control

Studio · OLPC · Baton The OLPC rig — performance-ready with the Radio Baton

Studio · OLPC · Baton OLPC and the Baton — a compact performance ecosystem

Studio · OLPC · P5 · Baton Three controllers — OLPC, P5 Glove, and the Radio Baton

OLPC wiiMote P5Glove Radio Baton full rig

Studio · Full Controller Rig The full rig — OLPC, Wii Remote, P5 Glove, and Radio Baton together

Studio · Gesture Controllers PowerGlove · Wii Remote · OLPC · Radio Baton — the gestural instrument ensemble

Studio · Bohlen-Pierce Bohlen-Pierce — the tritave divided into 13 steps, a world beyond 12-tone

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

Studio · Workbench The workbench — Doepfer A-100, open circuit boards, and the Radio Baton sensor

Studio · SoundEmotion SoundEmotion — the visual language of sound

Mentors & Collaborators

Computer Music Pioneers John Chowning · Max Mathews · Richard Boulanger · Jean-Claude Risset

Mentors · Max Mathews With Max Mathews at Dartmouth — 25 years of Radio Baton and friendship

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

Collaborators · BT With BT (Brian Transeau) — where computer music meets contemporary production

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

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

Mentors · Symposium The 440 Symposium — the field's luminaries gathered

Mentors · Berklee 491 Max Mathews with Berklee 491 students — the founding father in the classroom

Mentors · The Four Now The Four — the lineage of computer music in one frame

Mentors · Archive The Four — an early gathering

Mentors · The Now The Now — a more recent gathering

Mentors · Mathews & Vercoe Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe — the two architects of the field, together

Mentors · Max Mathews Max Mathews with Greg Thompson

Mentors · Max Mathews · Family Max and Marjorie Mathews at Marion Ave — a personal portrait

Mentors · Computer Museum Max Mathews at the Computer Museum — the founder of computer music in its archive

Mentors · Max · 1998 Max Mathews with the Radio Baton, 1998

Mentors · Max · 1984 Max Mathews with the Radio Violin, 1984 — Bell Labs

Mentors · Max · Baton Max Mathews with the Radio Baton

Mentors · Max · Baton Another performance portrait — Max and the Radio Baton

Mentors · Max · Violin Max Mathews with the Radio Violin — acoustic meets electronic

Mentors · Max · Portrait Max Mathews at Peter Coutts — a candid portrait

Mentors · Max · Garden Max Mathews in the garden — intimate and at ease

Mentors · Max Mathews Max Mathews — a portrait

Mentors · John Pierce John Pierce — Bell Labs, the patron of computer music

Mentors · John Pierce John Pierce — the Bell Labs patron who made it all possible

Mentors · Max · San Francisco Studio Max Mathews in his San Francisco studio — still composing, always experimenting

Mentors · Max · San Francisco Max Mathews in San Francisco — a candid portrait

Mentors · Max · IRCAM Max Mathews at IRCAM — Bell Labs meets the Pompidou Centre

Max Mathews Computer Museum lecture Palo Alto

Mentors · Max · Computer Museum Lecturing at the Computer Museum, Palo Alto — history told from the inside

Max Mathews phaser filter demo San Francisco

Mentors · Max · Phaser Filters Max demoing phaser filters in San Francisco — always the scientist-musician

Mentors · Max · Berklee Max Mathews at Berklee — the father of computer music on campus

Max Mathews teaching Radio Baton at Berklee

Mentors · Max · Teaching Baton Max Mathews teaching the Radio Baton at Berklee — inventor as educator

Mentors · Max & Barry Threw Max Mathews and Barry Threw at Berklee

Mentors · Max & Diane Douglas Max Mathews and Diane Douglas at Berklee

Mentors · Max & Jonathan Bailey Max Mathews and Jonathan Bailey at Berklee

Mentors · Max & Philip Boulanger Max Mathews with Philip Boulanger — generations at the intersection of music and technology

Mentors · Max & Tim Lukins Max Mathews and Tim Lukins — collaboration in the studio

Mentors · Max & Johannes Bochmann Max Mathews and Johannes Bochmann — a cross-disciplinary conversation

Max Mathews at Berklee with Boulanger 491 students

Mentors · Max · Berklee 491 Max Mathews with the 491 thesis students — the founder of computer music in the classroom

Max Mathews, Diane Douglass, Dr. Boulanger at Berklee

Mentors · Berklee Trio Max Mathews, Diane Douglass, and Dr. Boulanger at Berklee

Mentors · Max Mathews Award The Max Mathews Award at Berklee — Max Mathews, Jacob Joaquin, and Dr. Boulanger

Mentors · Max · 491 Students Max Mathews with the 491 students — the founding father meets the next generation

Mathews Lecture · 1957 Max Mathews in 1957 — the very beginning of computer music at Bell Labs

Mathews Lecture · 1960 1960 — Bell Labs, the first computer music programs taking shape

Max Mathews Radio Violin 1984 lecture slide

Mathews Lecture · 1984 Violin Max with the Radio Violin in 1984 — from his own lecture archive

GROOVE system at Bell Labs from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · GROOVE System The GROOVE system at Bell Labs — Max's real-time hybrid music system

IBM 7094 at Bell Labs 1975 from Mathews lecture

Mathews Lecture · IBM 7094 The IBM 7094 at Bell Labs, 1975 — the machine that first synthesized music

Mathews Lecture · AT&T 1979 Max Mathews at AT&T Bell Labs, 1979 — peak years of computer music research

Risset Pierce Mathews Chowning at IRCAM 1979

Mentors · IRCAM 1979 · Pioneers Risset · Pierce · Mathews · Chowning with the PDP-10 at IRCAM, 1979 — four pillars, one moment

Mentors · Jean-Claude Risset Jean-Claude Risset — composer and researcher, one of the great voices of computer music

Mentors · John Chowning John Chowning — inventor of FM synthesis and founder of Stanford CCRMA

Chowning Mathews Boulanger Risset at Mathews 80th birthday San Francisco

Mentors · Mathews 80th · San Francisco Chowning · Mathews · Boulanger · Risset — Max Mathews' 80th birthday in San Francisco

Mentors · Barry Vercoe Barry Vercoe — creator of Csound and founding figure of the MIT Media Lab

Mentors · Barry Threw Barry Threw — artist, engineer, and Boulanger collaborator

Mentors · David Zicarelli David Zicarelli — creator of MaxMSP, a transformation of real-time computer music

John ffitch and Rick in the glass London

Mentors · John ffitch · London John ffitch and Rick in the glass — a London recording session

Mentors · ffitch & Lazzarini · Maynooth John ffitch and Victor Lazzarini at Maynooth — two leading Csound developers

Philip Boulanger and Richard Boulanger Maynooth

Mentors · Philip & Richard · Maynooth Philip Boulanger and Richard Boulanger at Maynooth — the music runs in the family

Mentors · F. Richard Moore & Andy Schloss F. Richard Moore and Andy Schloss — computer music researchers and collaborators

Max Mathews Miller Puckett Barry Vercoe MIT Media Lab 2011

Mentors · MIT Media Lab · Feb 2011 Max Mathews · Miller Puckett · Barry Vercoe — MIT Media Lab, February 2011

Luigi Castelli Lee Ray Max Mathews phaser filters San Francisco studio

Mentors · Phaser Filters · San Francisco Luigi Castelli · Lee Ray · Max Mathews — phaser filter research in the San Francisco studio

Luigi Castelli Lee Ray Max Mathews phaser filters demo

Mentors · Phaser Filters Demo The demo — Luigi Castelli, Lee Ray, and Max Mathews, phaser filters live

Mentors · Negyesy & McMillen Janos Negyesy and Keith McMillen — violin virtuoso meets hardware innovator

Mentors · Negyesy · UCSD Janos Negyesy · Richard Boulanger · Päivikki Nykter — UC San Diego

Mentors · Janos Negyesy Janos Negyesy — Hungarian violinist and champion of new music

Mentors · Lee Ray & Negyesy · UCSD Lee Ray and Janos Negyesy at UCSD — student and master in conversation

Mentors · Eric Singer · Guitar Bots Eric Singer with the Guitar Bots — robotic instruments in performance

Eric Singer and Greg Thompson GuitarBots

Mentors · Singer & Thompson · GuitarBots Eric Singer and Greg Thompson with the GuitarBots — a robotic ensemble

Mentors · Singer & Thompson Eric Singer and Greg Thompson — innovators in robotic and electronic music

Collaborators · Devine & O'Reilly Richard Devine and Colman O'Reilly — modular synthesis pioneers in conversation

Collaborators · Devine & Centrella Richard Devine and Matthew Centrella — electronic music collaboration

Collaborators · Devine & Hines Richard Devine and Matthew Hines — sound design and modular synthesis

Jim Sain and Richard Boulanger University of Florida Gainesville

Mentors · Jim Sain · Florida Jim Sain and Richard Boulanger at the University of Florida, Gainesville

Jim Sain Richard Boulanger Joo Won Park FEMF Florida

Mentors · FEMF · Florida Jim Sain · Richard Boulanger · Joo Won Park — Florida Electronic Music Festival

Mentors · FEMF · Florida Garavaglia · Boulanger · Owen · Joo Won Park — Florida Electronic Music Festival

Mentors · Jacob Joaquin & Barry Threw Jacob Joaquin · Dr. Boulanger · Barry Threw — Berklee's computer music community

Nassos Vynios and Richard Boulanger Athens SYNC soundcheck

Mentors · Nassos · Athens SYNC Nassos Vynios and Richard Boulanger — soundcheck at the Athens SYNC Festival

Nassos Vynios and Richard Boulanger Athens 2

Mentors · Nassos · Athens Nassos Vynios and Richard Boulanger in Athens — collaboration in the birthplace of music theory

Mentors · Nassos Vynios Nassos Vynios — composer and champion of computer music in Athens

Mentors · Nassos · Athens Rehearsal Nassos Vynios in rehearsal — the Athens SYNC Festival

Mentors · Nassos · Blue Grotto Nassos Vynios at the Blue Grotto — music and the Greek landscape

Mentors · Nassos · Radio Baton · Athens Nassos Vynios with the Radio Baton in Athens — the instrument travels to Greece

Richard Boulanger and Lee Ray La Jolla CA

Mentors · Lee Ray · La Jolla Richard Boulanger and Lee Ray in La Jolla — mentor and student by the Pacific

Boulanger with original Mathews-Boie Radio Drum donated to CUBA

Mentors · Radio Drum · CUBA The original Mathews-Boie Radio Drum — donated to CUBA, a historic instrument finds a new home

Mentors · Berklee Graduation Richard Boulanger and Kristi Knupp — Berklee graduation, celebrating the next generation

Max Mathews explaining Conductor Program code to Greg Thompson in Boulanger's studio

Mentors · Max · Conductor Program Max Mathews explaining the Conductor Program to Greg Thompson — a teaching moment in the studio

Max Mathews napping in Dr. Boulanger's studio

Mentors · Max · At Rest Max Mathews napping in the studio — a tender, unguarded moment between sessions

Students & Collaborators

Students · Open Path Music Thomas Hass · Lee Ray · Takahiko Tsuchiya — Open Path Music

Students · Open Path Another session — Hass, Ray, Tsuchiya at Open Path

Students · Lee Ray Lee Ray at Open Path — producing and collaborating

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

Students · Takahiko · Violin & Glove Takahiko's violin and PowerGlove — acoustic meets gestural

Students · Thomas Hass · csGrain Thomas Hass with csGrain — iOS Csound in the Heartbeats ensemble

Students · Heartbeats · BT Heartbeats — BT with the Blind Guys, the full ensemble on stage

Students · BT · Heartbeats BT in Heartbeats — producer and live performer

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

Students · csGrain · Nona Hendrix csGrain in the hands of Nona Hendrix — Csound meets rock legend

Students · csGrain · iOS csGrain main screen — Csound granular synthesis on iOS

Students · csGrain · Random csGrain in random mode — granular synthesis, fully unleashed

CsoundForLive · Interface CsoundForLive in Ableton Live — 120+ plugins, Csound as the engine

CsoundForLive · Hanover 2011 Hanover premiere — the First International Csound Conference concert flyer

Students · Jacob Joaquin & Barry Threw Jacob Joaquin · Dr. Boulanger · Barry Threw — Berklee's next generation

Circuit Bending & Teaching Lab

Teaching · Circuit Bending Workshop night — students gathered for hardware hacking and sound design

Teaching · Lab Bench The lab bench — components, breadboards, and soldering irons

Teaching · CB Menu Workshop module menu — the range of circuit bending projects

Teaching · CB Menu Circuit Bending workshop — another module selection

Teaching · CB Menu Workshop menu — circuit bending modules and student projects

Teaching · CB Menu Building a sonic vocabulary from hardware

Teaching · Arduino Arduino at the center — microcontroller-driven sound design

Teaching · Furby Furby + Arduino — a toy becomes an instrument

Teaching · Csound on Chip Csound on a chip — embedded synthesis at the hardware level

Teaching · FM Synthesis FM synthesis on a breadboard — Chowning's theory in hardware

Teaching · Circuits & Modular Circuits and modular synthesis — design meets performance

Teaching · Maker Space Berklee Maker Space — students building custom hardware instruments

Teaching · Maker Space More students at work — the Berklee hardware lab in session

Teaching · Light Sensor Light sensor control — photosensors as synthesis controllers

Teaching · Custom DSP Jamming with custom DSP — students performing their own hardware

Teaching · Daisy Pod · Trill Daisy Pod with Trill Sensors — touch control meets embedded Csound

Teaching · Breadboard Breadboard fun — building circuits from scratch

Teaching · Bent Elenco A bent Elenco — educational kit becomes electronic instrument

Teaching · Bela · Trill HW Bela + Trill — embedded audio and touch sensing in one board

Publications & Archive

Publications · The Csound Book The Csound Book — the MIT Press landmark, edited by Richard Boulanger

Archive · OLPC · $100 Laptop The $100 OLPC laptop — bringing music and computation to every child

Archive · OLPC · Green Machine The green-and-white machine — the iconic OLPC XO design

Archive · OLPC · Specs OLPC XO specs and dimensions — the technical blueprint of the $100 laptop

Basic physics slide from Mathews lecture

Archive · Mathews Lecture · Physics Basic physics of sound — as Max Mathews taught it

Portraits

Portrait · Formal Formal portrait — Doepfer modular systems behind

Portrait · Headshot Professional headshot

Portrait · Headphones Headphones on — the color companion to the B&W classic

Portrait · Headshot Warm smile — ready to teach

Portrait · Event Dressed for the occasion — bow tie and pocket square

Portrait · Studio A warm smile — the studio is home

Portrait · Modular Cables looped — the modular studio as portrait backdrop

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

Portrait Arms crossed — confidence and the collection behind

Portrait · Studio At the desk — the studio workspace in full frame

Portrait In the studio — a moment of reflection

Portrait Leaning in — the studio close behind

Portrait Playful — the instruments always close by

Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger

Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger

Portrait · Outdoor Arms crossed, glasses off — a moment outside the studio

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

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

Portrait · Studio At the studio desk — Radio Baton batons, Csound running

Portrait · Eurorack Cables draped like a garland — laughing in the modular racks

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

Portrait · Studio In the studio — surrounded by the instrument collection

Portrait · Studio In the studio — decades of synthesis history on the walls

Portrait · Studio In the studio — the full instrument collection behind

Portrait · Studio The full studio — synthesizers, monitors, and a lifetime of sound

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

Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger

Portrait · Performance In the act — gesture and electronics unified

Portrait · Performance Deep focus — the performance as meditation

Radio Baton With the Max Mathews Radio Baton

Portrait · Csound Book The Csound Book author photo — headshot for the MIT Press edition

Boulanger holding Radio Baton for Csound Book

Portrait · Csound Book Holding the Radio Baton — author photo, The Csound Book

Boulanger playing Radio Baton for Csound Book

Portrait · Csound Book In play — the author photo that defined the Radio Baton era

Portrait Dr. Richard Boulanger

Portrait · Key Largo Diving at Key Largo — with DJ Aliya (@alicepilot), music beneath the surface

A Life in Sound & Vision

Gallery — Updated with New Photos