Michael Gogins

I compose computer music, take photographs, and sometimes write poetry, fiction, or essays on various things.

This Web site is about computer music, the future, photography, theology, and whatever else interests me. To some extent my blog is a journal of my work in computer music and an ongoing review of those aspects of computer music in which I am interested. I am one of the developers of the open source software synthesizer Csound, and the author of CsoundAC, Csound’s system for algorithmic composition.

I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1950, and lived there until 1972. I have lived in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Seattle, Salt Lake again, and since 1985 in New York City. My day job is writing trading system software; I taught myself to program by doing computer music. I am married to Heidi, who owns a classical sheet music store in New York City, Frank Music Company.

I am making a good chunk of what I have done, and am doing, available to the public on this Web site.  Please note that I also have music for sale on CDBaby and iTunes and other places! As I produce new music, I will make some pieces available here, and also try to sell some online. As I see what works best, I will adjust the balance.

You can email me at michael dot gogins at gmail dot com.