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Curtis Roads (b. May 9, 1951, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer, sound artist, computer music theorist, and software developer, recognized as a pioneer of granular synthesis. He currently teaches "Media Arts and Technology" and co-founded the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) in 1979, serving as an associate editor from 1978 to 2000. Roads has published seven books, including "Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic" (2015). His accolades include the 2002 "Distinction Award," the 2008 ICMC "Best Paper" award for his NSF-funded research on the "dictionary-based pursuit" method of sound analysis, a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and the Giga-Hertz Prize in 2016. Roads studied composition at CalArts and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In 1974, he created the first practical implementation of granular synthesis on a computer at UCSD. He developed an Algol program called PLFKLANG that synthesized sound clouds with hundreds of thousands of grains. His work in granular synthesis continued at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he consulted on various programs, including PulsarGenerator and EmissionControl. Roads has also explored microtonality in works such as the Bohlen–Pierce scale intervals in his 1994 commission "Clang-Tint." He spent several years in Europe,

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