Robert Constable

Since 1993, Robert Constable has been the director of the Slavin Electronic Studio at New College of USF.

He received a B.A. from University of South Florida, Masters and Ph.D. work at the Eastman School of Music, where he held the position of Co-administrator of the Electronic/Computer Music Studio. He studied with Samuel Adler, Hilton Jones, David Liptak, Robert Morris, and Joseph Schwantner.

In 1986, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study with György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany. He is a co-founder of the IN YOUR EAR New Music Festival in Rochester NY, and a Vice-president of the BONK Festival of New Music.

His compositions employ recursive and iterative algorithms and mappings of extra-musical systems into unique instrumentations, with an emphasis on computer generated/processed music. Robert has experimented with models of cellular and chemical interaction, as well as the mechanics of global and evolutionary change, and has described himself as "trying to compose music that will cause genetic changes in the listener."

He also composes small (anti-)theater pieces which have been described as "twisted commentaries on music, life, love and bodily functions. . ." His rock/pop band, Handshake Squad, was voted the year 1999 "best experimental band" by Tampa Bay's Weekly Planet magazine, and is currently working on their debut 10-CD boxed set.