Paul Lansky

"Music succeeds when its machinery is less interesting than its tunes."

Paul Lansky is a prolific composer of computer and instrumental music, an educator, and a software designer.

Paul Lansky has been composer-in-residence at the N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music (Australia), California Institute of the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, and Renssaelaer Polytechnic Institute. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, ISCM Electronic Music Award, American Academy/Institute of Arts and Letters, and National Endowment for the Arts. His commissions include the Koussevitsky Foundation, Fromm Foundation, and Sonic Arts Network Commission. His essays have been published in Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Music Theory, and Computer Music Journal. As a software designer, he wrote MIX, Cmix, and RT. He is currently a professor at Princeton University.

Lansky is professor and chair of the Music department at Princeton University.