Johannes Goebel

Between 1990 and 2002, Goebel was the Founding Director of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Associated with the Computer Music Center of Stanford University since 1977, he co-directed the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in 1996. He joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Founding Director of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in July 2002. In cooperation with the German avant-garde record label Wergo, Goebel initialised the first Audio-CD series utilising this new digital medium for Digital Music Digital in 1986. As producer, coordinator, digital audio editor and editor-in-chief, he published in collaboration with Max Mathews and CCRMA Computer Music Currents, a 13-volume CD series focused mainly on computer music of the 1980s.