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CDP has Individual Members in:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, South Korea, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, & (former) Yugoslavia

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Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the USA

Composers, Institutions and Music

Here we have links to various people and organisations that have been involved with CDP in one way or another, mostly as users of the CDP software. Where information is available, musical compositions written at least in part with the help of CDP software are listed in this document.

Please send in your details if you would like them listed here.
My apologies if any of the links below are out of date.


Richard Azim Composer
  • The Flute Ascending – 5 tracks comprising a cycle of improvisations using the Indian bansuri (bamboo flute), spectral treatments on Track 5 – 2002

Natasha Barratt Composer
  • Rocks & Wraiths – including "Red Snow"

Anthony Bonello Composer

Warren Burt Composer

Rodolpho Caesar Composer & performer
  • Introduction to the Stone – CDP prizewinner

Dragan Capor Composer

Paul Coleman Composer

Columbia University Computer Music Center

Conservatorio di Musica G.B. Martini (Bologna, Lelio Camilleri) – Electroacoustic music courses

Richard Dobson CDP Core Programmer

Douglas Doherty (DACS Ltd.) Can supply and install complete CDP systems with computer, plus numerous other high quality, award winning audio items made by DACS Ltd.

Archer Endrich (archer[a]trans4um.demon.co.uk) Composer
  • Crossing the Dark Rift – Soundscape to accompany exhibition of Pat Warrington's sculptural textiles, 'Mystery of the Maya' – 2003

Ambrose Field (ambrose[a]bliss.york.ac.uk) Composer
  • Geosphere – major Ambisonic soundscape
  • Grey Sky Traffic – CDP Commission, with funding from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts
  • Till – exploring electroacoustic cliché and context
  • Expanse Hotel – Ambisonic piece commissioned by ICMC for first performance at the ICMC in China, 1999

Rajmil Fischman Composer & lecturer in music technology at Keele University
  • Los Dados Eternos – oboe & tape, with emphasis on spectral transformations

John Fitch Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and an active programmer maintaining Csound, which is available from his Website.

Alex Graham Composer

Peter Green Composer: Film scoring, radio & TV drama, composition commissions
  • Grrearra Réson – a 3rd prize winner at Bourges (1997)
  • Epnom Bynom – with drummer Mike Dred, pvoc transformations of drum tracks
  • Dehs – a music and video piece, video by Amanda Terrington
  • Virtual Farmer – wide variety of styles & treatments

Mark Grimshaw Composer; Divisional Leader Digital Media, University of Wolverhampton. Mark made contributions to the conceptual development of several of the CDP spectral modules. This cross-fertilization took place during discussions with Trevor Wishart while Mark was writing a set of his own spectral manipulation programs at York University.

Chris Halliwell Composer

Florian Hecker (hecker[a]editionsmeg.com) Composer

Frank Ekeberg Henriksen Composer

Peter Howard Composer

Tim Howle (t.j.howle[a]hull.ac.uk) Composer
  • Subplot – 20'19" entrancing electroacoustic textures

Hugh Huddy Composer

Celeste Hutchins Composer / Programmer

Peter Karkut (p.karkut[a]chelsea.arts.ac.uk) Composer
  • Heavy Like Saturn (1999)

Katharina Klement Composer
  • Textur – für klavier & lautsprecher
  • BrandungI and II – produced with support from Werkstadt Graz (CD 02)

Simon Kunath and James A. Smith Composer
  • Shiny Blackness (1998) Burn 1.0023) – 11 tracks, vocal, instrumental, and treatments

Leeds Metropolitan University
  • Offering a range of Sound, Music and Performance courses using CDP software.

Bernhard Lang (hipfl.lang[a]chello.at) Musician, Composer
  • Compositions made partly with CDP:
    • 1996: Hommage à Martin Arnold 1 für Tonband (10', U.A. Allentsteig 1996)

    • 2000: Differenz/Wiederholung 5 für 14 Instrumente und Bandzuspielung (14')

    • 2002: loops from the 4th district für Kontrabass und CD-Zuspielung (16')

    • 2004: Klanginstallation 'I speak in riddles' nach einem Text von Nora Gomringer
      Bamberg, Villa Concordia Passage

    • 2004: RETRO Rauminstallation für Wagner-Loops und einen Tänzer

    • 2004: TRIKE summer
      Tanzperformance Christine Gaigg Wien
      ImPulsTanz04

    • 2004: OP. 6.1 für Elektronik (13')
      U.A. Mittersill 2004

    • 2004: the scythe remix Christoph Dientz (7')

    • 2005: Schwarze Bänder.Hartmann-Studien
      Klanginstallation Musica Viva München 2005

    • 2006: ODIO MOZART / I HATE MOZART
      Musiktheater in zwei Akten
      Libretto: Michael Sturminger,
      WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006

    • 2007: Der Alte vom Berge Musiktheater für 6 Stimmen und verstärktes Ensemble (~90')
      U.A. Schwetzingen 2007

  • CDs made exclusively with CDP:

    • 2001: A ROOMFULL OF SHOES

    • 2001: A ROOMFULL OF SHOES II
      CD "The Lublin Concert", Extraplatte 2001


John Maddocks Composer

Dennis Miller Composer, Graphic Artist, and professor of music technology at Northeastern University

Odilon Marcenaro Composer
  • Seven Light Pieces – written for contemporary dance
  • Mi Sveglio Cantando – 1993

Bertrand Merlier Composer
  • Uni-Verre-Son – visual & sonic environment
  • (with B Froment & P Gallais)

Matt Mitchell Composer

Tony Myatt Composer
  • Mechanicae – uses Csound extensively

Carey Nutman Composer  Also: music and video
  • Contrasts – various contrasting styles, including TGV (performed and broadcast in Canada, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Australia), Icicles/Reflect, and Facing the Infinite II
  • Contrasts 2 – contains a lengthy piece called Oloroso, which uses a variety of (CDP) transformation techniques

Richard Orton Composer & programmer: Tabula Vigilans, Form-Builder, Score-Builder
  • 3 Monoliths: No. 1 The Hemlock Stone – evolving textures based on rock/stone source material – 2004

Pablo Palacio (sofmusic[a]newinstance.net) Composer
  • Silem – constructed entirely from transformations of three utterances of Miles Davis, using only CDP software. Won the 'Circuitos de Müsica 2006 Injuve' award. Available on the Tunyi CD, Autoplástico.

Dale Perkins (D.Perkins[a]lcm.ac.uk) Composer
  • Submarine – motivated by the catastrophic suffering of the Kursk submarine crew – 2000-01
  • Excursions – moving from one sonic landscape to another through the process of sonic modulation – 2002
  • Holiday Snap 2002: A Sonic Document – sounds emanating from the small seaside town of Whitby – 2002
  • Fundamental Manoeuvre – a 3-part form that makes use of a fundamental melodic motif found hidden within the source material – 2003
  • Rubicon Drift – Caesar's Rubicon: boundaries and the (sometimes disastrous) consequences of crossing them – 2004


Marc Piera Composer

Melvyn Poore Composer and professional tuba player specialising in contemporary music

Peter Ridsdale Composer

Klaus Roder Composer
  • Kristallisation 4 – 1991

Harry-Ed Roland (ddslash[a]her-krypticvisions.com) Composer
  • Selbstverstümmelung (Self-Mutilation) – premiered in Berlin, Dec 1993
  • Emmaculate Darkness – first panel of The First Legend: Raindance 1994
  • Traversing Distant Interiors: BR 1-6 – composed Spring of 1999 [16'30"]
  • N.A.M.A: "booty" don't walk – composed Autumn 1999 [8'30"]
  • Circadian Rhythms: WT – composed Winter/Spring of 2001 [10']
  • Silenced Dreams: TMA – composed Winter/Spring of 2002 [10'48"]
  • The Warrior Weeps: Sparks and fumes – completed in November 2004 [13']
  • Shamanic Whispers – one movement of a larger composite composition that includes movements by 3 more composers, premiered in Spain in June 2005 [Harry-Ed's contribution is 4' in duration]

Michel Sanchez Composer

Luke Selden Composer

Douglas Shearer Composer

Adam Stansbie (a.stansbie[a]leedsmet.ac.uk OR matterhornhead[a]hotmail.com) Composer
  • Isthmus (2006) – 'Residency Prize' at the 33rd Bourges International Competition 2006
  • Early Morning (2005) – First Prize in the Metamorphoses Competition 2006
  • Donau (2003) – The David Thompson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Production, Leeds College of Music, 2003

Fred Szymanski (fredsz[a]earthlink.net) Composer & works with film
  • Nozzle, a laminar project 2003 (ASP 2017), containing:
    • repulsion 8:17
    • trap 5:42
    • shear 6:46
    • burst 5:43
    • boil 8:28
    • nozzle 8:17
    • surge 6:13

Jukka Tiensuu (jtiensuu[a]siba.fi) Composer
  • Tokko – winner of Radio France Prize

Eitan Teomi Composer

University of Birmingham Electroacoustic music courses - BEAST sound diffusion

University of Plymouth Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research

University of Salford Electroacoustic music courses

University of York Ambisonics – Ambisonic research (David Malham)

Mike Vaughan Composer
  • CrossTalk – an exciting and dynamic reconstruction of harpsichord source material (CDP prizewinner)

Markku Veijonsuo Composer, Trombonist

Vedran Vucic Composer and educator in Yugolavia. Also works with visual artists.
  • Aristid
  • Voices

Rob Waring Composer living and working in Norway
  • Baby Carriage Fantasy – an imaginative perception of the world from the baby's point of view inside the carriage

Trevor Wishart Composer and author of the CDP Spectral sound transformation package, as well as most of the Time Domain program modules. See his Website for information about ordering his books and CDs.
  • Tongues of Fire – Linz Ars Electronica first prize 1995
  • Fabulous Paris – dense electroacoustic work featuring time-varying frequency handling
  • Imago – amazing evolution from a single source
  • Globalalia – a world view with every manner of speech processing (now available in CDP Release 5.0)

Gerhard Wolfstieg Composer and progammer, Germany
  • diosmose – radio play, 54', 1994. Written in collaboration with Thomas Schulze and realised in the ZKM Studio Karlsruhe and in the Studio Des Komponisten. Available on CD: email: gw[a]wolfstieg.com

James Wyness Composer

Louisa Yong – ComeXos Project – Project to provide access to a selection of CDP software via the Internet

Jeremy Zuckerman Composer

The Sonic Arts Network's Soundbytes contains information about CD's http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/ that include pieces by the following CDP members (click on the 'sounds' link):

  • Natasha Barrett - Rocks & Wraiths
  • Michael Clarke - Uppvaknande, Malarsang, Refractions, Epicycle
  • Rajmil Fischman - Dreams of Being
  • Agustín Fernández - Wounded Angel
  • Peter Green (with Mike Dred) - Epnom Bynom
  • Jonty Harrison - Klang
  • Carey Nutman - Contrasts
  • Mike Vaughan - Ensphered
  • Trevor Wishart - The Vox Cycle

Last updated: 5 January 2007

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