Library Person

Barry Vercoe

New Zealand-born composer and computer scientist, creator of Csound.

Type
Person
Subjects
Computation Sound

Barry Vercoe (1937–2025) taught at MIT from 1971 and became a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab in 1984, creating the widely used Csound language in 1985 and later contributing to the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard.

Works in the Library

  • Barry Vercoe SOFTWARE

    Csound

    Barry Vercoe's 1985 sound synthesis programming language, descended from the MUSIC-N lineage.

    COMPUTATION SOUND