Composer, musician, video designer, and interdisciplinary artist Curtis Peel received his BM in Composition from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Curtis’s distinctive compositional style explores the ways in which sound can be reconceived, manipulated, and imaginatively presented with the help of computers while retaining its organic, human element. In August of 2007, Curtis released his self-produced album “wings on Thursday,” an innovative blending of acoustic music with computer effects and programming.

Curtis has also produced several digital, experimental films that strike a delicate balance between technology and unaltered digital imagery. A segment of his short film, “tightrope with tongue (2007),” was shown at the 2007 New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization Festival. In October his film for "Grand Canyon Hymns", a collaborative project with composer Dan Kellogg, was premiered at the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington D.C. with the 21st Century Consort.

In addition to pursuing his individual artistic endeavors, Curtis is very active in the Boulder community as a collaborator with local musicians, artists, video designers, and performers.
His most recent collaborative project, livingRoom, is an interdisciplinary rock band comprising nine musicians, a video artist, and a team of interdisciplinary performers and programmers.

During its first public performance, to be held in early 2008 at the Fox Theater in Boulder, livingRoom will premier a progressive technology known as the Random Event Generator (REG), which will allow audience consciousness directly effect musical and visual aspects of the performance.

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