Current Professional Position
Professor of Composition
Director Electronic Music Studios
Austin, TX 78712
Professional Offices Held
Founding Member and Current President
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
Former Regional Director for the Americas
International Computer Music Association
Education
Significant Honors and Awards
Two Awards from the American Academy/Institute of Arts and Letters
(Charles Ives Scholarship and Charles Ives Fellowship)
Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Salvador, Brazil
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition
Recordings and Musical Publications
Russell Pinkston: Four Electroacoustic Dance Suites, CDCM Vol. 34, (Centaur Records, 2005)
Lizamander for Flute and Max/MSP, Music from SEAMUS Volume 14, Compact Disc, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, EAM-2005, (SEAMUS, 2005)
Gerrymander for Clarinet and Max/MSP, Music from SEAMUS Volume 13, Compact Disc, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, EAM-2004, (SEAMUS, 2004)
Gerrymander for Clarinet and Max/MSP, Third Practice: Commissions and Premieres, Compact Disc, CRC 2672, (Centaur Records, 2004)
Dervish Dancess, Music from SEAMUS Volume 11, Compact Disc, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, EAM-2002, (SEAMUS, 2002)
TaleSpin for Yamaha Disklavier and Live Electronics, Music from SEAMUS Volume 10, Compact Disc, The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, EAM-2001, (SEAMUS, 2001)
Don't Look Now for String Quartet and Tape, Computer Music from The University of Texas at Austin, Compact Disc, CDCM Vol. 20, (Centaur Records,1995)
Meditation (O Lord, Increase my Faith) for SATB Choir unaccompanied, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, (Boston: 1994)
Quartet for Four Horns with Tape, Compact Disc "Dragons in the Sky", (Summit Records: 1992)
The Very Best of Tracks, Compact Disc, (Boston Skyline: 1991)
Quartet for Four Horns with Tape, King's Crown Press, a publication of Columbia University Press (New York: 1991)
"Meditation," The New Calliope Singers, (Finnadar Records, 1987)
"Emergence" (The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer, Folkways Records, 1978)
Recent Lectures, Publications, and Technical Research
Papers
“FM Synthesis in Csound.” The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Programming. Richard Boulanger, Ed. Chapter 12, pp. 261-279. (Cambridge: MIT Press)
“Constrained Random Event Generation and Retriggering in Csound.” The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Programming. Richard Boulanger, Ed. Chapter 17, pp. 339-352. (Cambridge: MIT Press)
“Using Csound to Understand Delay Lines and Their Applications” The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Programming. Richard Boulanger, Ed. Chapter 22, pp. 451-466. (Cambridge: MIT Press)
"The University of Texas Touch-Sensitive MIDI Dance Floor." 1998 Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. (Invited Paper)
"The New Technology of Interactivity: Approaches and Implications for Music and Modern Dance." Art and Technology. Edited by Lars Gustafsson and Tor Ragnar Gerholm. pp. 69-75. Published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Rapid Instrument Prototyping System (RIPS): A New Graphical User Interface for Instrument Design in Csound." 1995 SEAMUS National Conference, Birmingham, Alabama
Pinkston, Kerkhoff, McQuilken. 1995. "A Touch-Sensitive MIDI Dance Floor." International Computer Music Conference, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Proceedings: pp. 224-225
"A Touch Sensitive Dance Floor/MIDI Controller." Proceedings of the 1994 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Texas, December 1994 (Invited Paper)
"The University of Texas Accelerando Project: An Update." International Computer Music Conference, San Jose, Proceedings: pp. 311-313
"Digital Signal Processing for Musical Applications" 1991 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Houston, Texas, November 1991 (Chaired Session)
"The Accelerando System" 1990 Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S., LSU, October 1990 (Invited Paper)
"DSP-Sound: A Software Synthesis Package for Real-time DSP-based Systems." International Computer Music Conference, Glasgow, Proceedings: pp. 199-201
Lent, Pinkston & Silsbee. 1989. "Accelerando: A Real-Time General Purpose Computer Music System." Computer Music Journal 13.4, pp. 54-64. (Cambridge: MIT Press)