Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes.
[1] He is credited with developing the first ever implementation of real-time granular synthesis in 1986, with being the first composer to explore the range between synchronic and asynchronic granular synthesis in Riverrun (1986), and being the first to use a sample as the source of a granular[2] composition in Wings of Nike (1987).
[3] Truax is Professor Emeritus of Simon Fraser University, where he taught both electroacoustic music and acoustic communication.
He was one of the original members of the World Soundscape Project.
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