Tate Carson

Carson leads the Digital Sound Design specialization at DSU. He has presented internationally at conferences including New Interfaces for Musical Expression and the International Computer Music Conference, his compositions and installations have been shown at venues and festivals such as the Network Music Festival and the Web Audio Conference, and his writing has appeared in The Journal of Digital Media & Interaction. His recent project, Resonant Landscapes, uses ambisonic field recordings and GPS to overlay soundscapes from South Dakota’s state parks onto physical locations at DSU; it was supported by a Faculty Research Initiative Grant and presented at Audio Mostly 2024 in Milan.

A native New Orleanian, he came to electroacoustic composition and interactive sound design from jazz bass, and has written for ensembles, for acousmatic fixed media, and for interactive installations. He holds a PhD in Experimental Music and Digital Media from Louisiana State University, where he wrote the dissertation Using Distributed Technology to Make Music in the Time of the Attention Economy, and an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, where his thesis Musical Sonification of Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath produced And the water receded. He also holds an MM in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans and a BM in Music Industry Studies from Loyola University New Orleans.