Bio:

Joshua Parmenter completed his D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Washington in 2005, where he studied with Prof. Richard Karpen. He received his Master of Music in Composition in 2002 from the University of Washington. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Edwin Dugger and Jorge Liderman. He is currently a Research Artist at the University of Washington at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.

Parmenter's music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He specializes in both acoustic and electro-acoustic music, especially music that combines performers with real-time electronics. An important part of his research has been in the development of real-time synthesis software as part of the SuperCollider open source project. He also uses the CSound and Common Music synthesis programs.  Currently, his research is focused on extending the real-time analysis and performance tools in the SuperCollider programming language, as well as a suite of Ambisonic Unit Generators for sound spatialization.

Parmenter's piece Organon Sostenuto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and live electronics was premiered last year in Copenhagen, Denmark by the Ensemble 4+ of Copenhagen.  He is currently working on projects for viola and live electronics for violist Garth Knox and a piece for cello and amplified chamber chorus for Pia Enblom. His "Musical Changes", a set of four pieces that explore crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando and ritardando, and written for four different mediums will be completed later this year. The first piece "Cadence (III. Decrescendo) received its premiere in November 2005, and Concerto for Bass and Computer-realized Sound (II. Accelerando) was performed in March, 2006.

He currently lives in Tacoma, WA with his wife Tamiko Nimura and their daughters Celia and Mira. Josh, Tamiko and Celia enjoy good food, books and music. Mira mostly likes soy milk, practices her smiles and grows teeth.