Curtis Roads creates, teaches, and pursues research in the interdisciplinary territory spanning music and sound technology. He studied electronic music and computer music composition at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and received a Doctorate from the Université Paris 8. In 2024 he retired as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) after 28 years of service.