
At Mills, he worked as computer music and recording engineer with composers Robert Ashley, David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, James Tenney and Alvin Curran. In 1987, Erbe became the Technical Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College. In addition, Erbe has engineered the LMJ CD Series-a total of 19 CDs-since 1991, when the first LMJ CD was produced. Erbe studied computer science and music at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and got his initial audio engineering experiences at WEFT, WPGU, and Faithful Sound Studios. In addition to his pioneering and widely used program SoundHack, he has become one of the most sought after and respected sound engineers for contemporary music. Tom Erbe has played an important role in American experimental and electronic music for the last 20 years. Echophon won the Electronic Musician Editors Choice award in 2013, and Erbe-Verb won the Electronic Musician Editors Choice award in 2015.LMJ welcomes Tom Erbe to the LMJ Editorial Board. These include: Echophon, Telharmonic, Erbe-Verb and Morphagene.

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SoundHack is used extensively for the sound design for The Matrix, which wins the Academy Award in sound design. This software is still widely used today. Created SoundHack, a spectral sound processing application for the Macintosh, one of the first freeware computer music programs, and winner of first prize at the first Concours de Logiciels Musicaux at the IMEB Festival in Bourges.Performed electronics and “rhythm orchestra” on Robert Ashley’s ground-breaking opera Improvement. (1989).Developed the first CD quality (16-bit) audio interface for the Macintosh with Micro Technology Unlimited.Developed (with Andy Voelkel) a real-time pitch detector and performance system for Max Mathews’ electronic violin for János Négysey (1986).

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As a recording engineer, Tom Erbe has produced over 100 CDs of contemporary music, including the restoration of James Tenney’s early computer music, recording of Bridge Records’ Morton Feldman series, compilation of the Lyrachord series of contemporary Indonesian music, and production of over 20 years of the Leonardo Music Journal ‘s annual compilation of experimental music. Tom Erbe has performed, and collaborated on, electronic music pieces by Alvin Lucier, John Cage, James Tenney, Maryanne Amacher, Larry Polansky, Alvin Curran, Robert Ashley, Clipping, and others. He creates computer music software and hardware, most notably the sound processing application SoundHack, the many soundhack plugins, and several ground-breaking synthesis modules developed with Make Noise Music. Tom Erbe is deeply involved and dedicated to electronic and computer music research, and creation.
