Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author and computer programmer.
He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis.
[2] He has created software including PulsarGenerator and the Creatovox, both with Alberto de Campo.
Since 2004, he has been researching a new method of sound analysis called atomic decompositions, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[2] The first movement of his composition Clang-Tint, "Purity", uses intervals from the Bohlen–Pierce scale.