Douglas McCausland
Biog
Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer who is fascinated with new aesthetic and technological domains, and whose chaotic and dense works explore the extremes of sound and the digital medium. Through his work, he investigates the various intersections of real-time electronic music performance with handmade interfaces / instruments, spatial audio, dynamic / interactive systems, the musical applications of machine-learning, and experimental sound design.
His works have been performed internationally at numerous festivals and symposiums including: SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, NYCEMF, etc. Recent honors include winning the 1st-Prize for the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition and an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica.
Douglas is currently a DMA candidate at Stanford University, working towards his doctorate in Composition while studying with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum.
