Joseph Butch Rovan, Director
CEMI: Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
University of North Texas
College of Music
PO Box 311367
Denton, TX 76203-1367

email: rovan@music.unt.edu
ph:  (940)565-3762
fax: (940) 565-2002
http://www.music.unt.edu/cemi/rovan/index.html


Joseph Butch Rovan is a composer and performer on the faculty of the College of Music at the University of North Texas (UNT), where he directs CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. Prior to joining UNT he was "compositeur en recherche" at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Rovan worked at Opcode Systems before leaving for Paris, serving as Product Manager for MAX, OMS and MIDI hardware. Rovan completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where his major professors were David Wessel, Richard Felciano, Jorge Liderman and Olly Wilson.

Rovan is the recipient of several awards, including a jury selection and second prize in the 1998 and 2001 Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competitions, and first prize in the 2002 Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival. Recent performances include the premiere of his "Hopper Confessions" for cello and interactive electronics at the 2003 Festival Synthèse in Bourges, France. Rovan frequently performs his own work, including performances at the 1999 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Beijing, the 2000 SEAMUS conference at UNT, the 2000 ICMC in Berlin and the 2002 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference in Dublin. His interactive scores for dance have been programmed in Munich, Paris, Reims, Monaco, the 2001 SEAMUS conference in Baton Rouge and the 2001 ICMC in Havana.

Rovan's research into gestural control and interactivity has been featured in IRCAM's journal "Resonance," "Electronic Musician", the Computer Music Journal, the Japanese magazine "SoundArts" and is featured on the CDROM "Trends in Gestural Control of Music", published by IRCAM (2000). His dramatic work "Vis-à-vis", for voice, interactive computer music and interactive video, will be released on DVD this year by the EMF label.