© Robert Fraser  2022

Robert Fraser is a retired lecturer and violin teacher
based in Edinburgh

Violin: Robert is an established teacher of violin / viola and an experienced orchestral and fiddle player. He has taught violin in several Edinburgh schools as well as privately, and plays in the Meadows Chamber Orchestra as well as in a harp and fiddle duo.

Computer music: Robert's involvement with electro-acoustic music and sound design dates back to undergraduate studies at the University of York in the early 1970s. For many years he taught electro-acoustic composition and applied music technology at the Colchester Institute School of Music, where he was Senior Lecturer in contemporary music.

Since the 1990s he has collaborated with the Composers Desktop Project (CDP) and is now a director of CDP and the author of Soundshaper, an editor for the CDP sound-design software. Soundshaper's development was greatly influenced by the late Canadian composer Gustav Ciamaga and Robert's piece in memory of Ciamaga, "One for Gustav", was first performed in Edinburgh in 2017.

Rhythmic research: for his PhD, Robert developed a theoretical framework for the perception of rhythmic structure, which was subsequently partially implemented in a computer program. For the time being, this research remains largely unpublished.