Tate Carson joined Dakota State University in 2021 as an Assistant Professor in Digital Sound Design. He earned his doctorate from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he studied Experimental Music and Digital Media. Before LSU, Carson received his MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in Oakland, California.
Carson is originally from New Orleans, where he studied jazz composition and performance at Loyola University and the University of New Orleans. He worked as a professional jazz bassist for several years, performing in various styles, from traditional jazz to free improvisation, before shifting his focus to electronic music composition.
Carson has written music for large open ensembles, improvisers, and non-improvisers; acousmatic fixed media; music for dance; and film and advertising. He has presented his research on participatory mobile music and electroacoustic composition, as well as his music, at conferences and festivals around the world, including at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (Brazil 2019, U.S. 2018), the International Computer Music Conference (U.S. 2019, Korea 2018), the Web Audio Conference (Norway 2019, Berlin 2018). His research has also been published in The Journal of Digital Music & Interaction (2020).