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TOM ERBE was born in Milwaukee in
1960 and spent his childhood surrounded by radio engineers and
marching bands. He studied computer science and music at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, receiving his BSCS
in 1984.
For three years he was the Technical Manager at CARL at the
University
of California, San Diego. There he was involved in development
of a
electronic violin, a DSP based sound processor and a
generalized
computer music workstation. In 1987 Tom became the Technical
Director
at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. At CCM
he has
worked with composers Robert Ashley, David Rosenboom, Larry
Polansky,
James Tenney, as computer music and recording engineer. His
technical
work at CCM includes writing the program SoundHack, which
brings
spectral sound processing to the Macintosh and the design of a
DSP
based sound processor for use with the language HMSL. He has
recently
developed a 4-channel binaural audio processor for the NASA
Ames
Research Center. In 1993, Tom has joined the faculty of the
California
Institute of the Arts as Technical Director of the computer
music
studios.
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