Peter Traub is a composer/installationist/net artist currently completing his dissertation in the Composition and Computer Technologies Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He received his Master’s in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College in 1999, and has composed numerous works of electronic music and several internet-based and physical sound installations.
After Dartmouth, Peter lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for five years, moonlighting as a visiting researcher/composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University while he worked as a software developer at internet startups. He is currently working on his dissertation – a series of performances and installations (and a large paper) exploring sound in physical and imaginary space. In his spare time Peter also contributes interviews to the Networked_Music_Review. He currently lives in Charlottesville with his wife and three-year-old son.