His discography of multiple albums and works of sound art includes Forms of Paper, which was commissioned by the Los Angeles Public Library.
In 2010, a mid-career survey of Roden's work was presented at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, curated by Howard Fox.
His work was included in exhibitions at the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery; the Las Vegas Art Museum; the Mercosur Biennial in Porto Allegre, Brazil; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Serpentine Gallery, London; the Drawing Room, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla; the Sculpture Center, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum, Paris; the UCLA Hammer Museum; Miami MOCA; and the Drawing Center, New York.
[1] Roden married Sari Takahashi in 1993; the couple lived in the Park La Brea section of Los Angeles.
[2] Roden was diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2017, and died at his home on September 6, 2023, at the age of 59.