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Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10, 1975 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American composer, video artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.

DuBois holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University (studying primarily with Fred Lerdahl), and is a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center. He has taught interactive music and video performance at a number of institutions, most recently Columbia, the School of Visual Arts, and the music technology and interactive telecommunications programs at New York University. As a graduate student at Columbia he was a contributor to Real-Time Cmix and currently works for Cycling'74 on Max/MSP/Jitter.

DuBois has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians, including Elliott Sharp, Paul D. Miller, Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eric Singer, and Leroy Jenkins. He is a founding member of the Freight Elevator Quartet, and has produced records for Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon on the Nonesuch label. His music integrates real-time performer-computer interaction with algorithmic methodologies repurposed from other fields, most notably formal grammars such as L-systems. His current research into issues of musical time revolve around a technique called time-lapse phonography, as used in his piece .

Prior to becoming a well-known laptop musician, DuBois did most of his improvisation and performance on Buchla and Serge modular synthesizers.

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