Robert Coburn

Robert Coburn is a composer and sound artist. His creative work includes concert music, both acoustic and electroacoustic; live, interactive computer music; temporary sound environment installations; and permanent soundworks as public art. His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe. Recent compositions include In Stillness for violin, computer, and video, premiered at the Brubeck Festival 2005 and PatternsLuminous for shakuhachi and computer. His permanent soundworks are installed across the landscape of the Oregon Convention Center (Portland, Oregon) and along the Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Documentation of his soundworks was exhibited as part of “nada — an experience in sound” at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India. In 2006 he attended Sound-Axis, Architecture-Music-Acoustics, in Toronto, Canada where he presented “Music in Architectural Time”.

Dr. Coburn is Chair of the Music Studies Department and Program Director of Music Composition and Theory at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific where he also directs the Conservatory Computer Studio for Music Composition, Ensemble 20/21, and SoundImageSound.

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