James Dashow

James Dashow, an internationally recognized pioneer, has been making music with computers since 1968. His technical research includes the development of MUSIC30, a complete language for digital sound synthesis, and the Dyad System, which integrates pitch and electronic sound.

He composed the first computer works in Italy in the 1970s. His awards include commissions and grants from the Bourges Festival, Guggenheim Foundation, Linz Ars Electronica, Rockefeller Foundation, La Biennale di Venezia, Fromm Foundation, RAI (Italian National Radio/Television), Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, Prague Musica Nova, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Il Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, National Endowment for the Arts, and Harvard Music Association (Boston). His articles appear in Perspectives of New Music, Computer Music Journal, Interface, and La Musica. In 2000, he was awarded the Magisterium Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Festival.

James Dashow lives in Rome, Italy, where he is currently working on Archimedes, a planetarium opera based on the life of the famed ancient mathematician.