Robert Rowe

"[In designing music software] I was trying to make a model that could embody the same musical concepts that underlie human music cognition... "

Robert Rowe is an educator, author, composer and performer of music for real-time interactive systems. His software 'Cypher' helped pioneer real-time computer musical listening and response.

Author of Interactive Music Systems and Machine Musicianship, Robert Rowe has lectured and performed at Tanglewood, Extasis Festival (Geneva), Banff Centre, IRCAM, International Computer Music Conference, and MIT Media Laboratory. He has worked at the Institute of Sonology (Utrecht) and IRCAM (Paris). He has written interactive software and toured as a solo pianist. His awards include the 1990 Bourges Prize, and he founded NYU's Interactive Arts Performance Series. He is currently Associate Director of the Music Technology Program at New York University.

Rowe is currently Associate Director of the Music Technology Program at New York University.