Douglas Scott

Douglas Scott attended Columbia University as a doctoral student during the transition from the traditional analog and tape-based studios to the digital and computer-based ones which would become the CMC under Director and Professor Brad Garton, and had the privilege of being Dr. Garton’s first teaching assistant beginning in 1987. In addition to Douglas's passion for creating electronic compositions, he developed a profound interest in software programming, and wrote a number of software tools which are still in use today. Among these is his GUI sound and data editor, MiXViews. He also became a co-author of the RTcmix software toolkit which he still actively develops and uses today. While still working on his doctorate, he was offered and accepted a staff position at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, where he set up their first software-based computer music studios. That position was followed by a similar one as Technical Director of the computer music studios at the University of California, Santa Barbara (now known as CREATE) where he set up their first computer network and developed software systems to aid graduate students and faculty in their electronic music projects. Following this, Douglas begin a 25-year journey through a number of Silicon Valley tech companies, where he continued to develop audio and music software, eventually ending up at Apple, Inc., from which he retired in 2021. He lives in Silicon Valley (California) where he has returned to composing full-time.