Drake Andersen is a composer, technologist, and scholar of avant-garde music and music technologies. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Central Connecticut State University where he teaches courses in music technology and other subjects.
His creative work encompasses concert music, electroacoustic soundscapes, interactive sound installations, and software for live performance. His music has been performed and recorded by preeminent contemporary artists and ensembles including Rhythm Method, Decoda, Contemporaneous, loadbang, and Jenny Lin, and heard at venues throughout the United States and Europe including Symphony Space, (le) poisson rouge, New World Symphony Center, and the Park Avenue Armory.
His research encompasses both technical and humanistic projects that have been presented at national and international conferences including ICMC, TENOR, SEAMUS, and AMS. Drake’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Organised Sound, the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Music Theory, and Perspectives of New Music. He holds the Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Macalester College.