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Bob Pritchard (BMus, MusM, DMA) is a Canadian composer living on Canada's West Coast in British Columbia. His works are performed and broadcast internationally and his research includes interactive performance, gesture tracking, and gesture-controlled speech synthesis. He creates video, software, and music for his interactive works, and produces short art films. In 2024 he retired from teaching music technology in the UBC School of Music, where he directed the Laptop Orchestra and coordinated the Minor in Applied Music Technology. He is an emeritus professor at UBC and a researcher with the UBC Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). Dr. Pritchard completed degrees at the U. of Toronto and UBC. Prior to teaching at the UBC School of Music he taught at Brock University, the UBC Dept. of Physics, and Douglas College. RESEARCH: Tracking And Smart Textiles Environment site: TASTE |
| Acknowledgement: I gratefully acknowledge that I live and practice my activities on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, including the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. I am thankful for the continuing dialogs (both political and artistic) as we work to achieve reconciliation that includes and supports each of us. |
| Latest News: |
| May 1, 2026: Presentation at Thompson Gallery, Vernon, B.C. |
| April, 2026: New piece (The Presence of) Pressure accepted for New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2026 Conference, London, UK June 23 - 26. For Woodwind Sensor Interactive Environment (WooSIE) flute and Max/MSP, performed by Paolo Bortolussi. |
| March 16, 2025: Presentation at UBC-Okanagan for Dr. A. Dulic's class Research Methods in Digital Arts and Humanities |
| Dec. 3, 2025: Research talk for Nerd Nite, Brackendale Art Gallery, Squamish. 6:30 p.m. |
| Sept. 30, 2025: Online presentation of compositions and research for Carnegie Mellon Music and Technology Seminar. |
| August 27, 2025: New paper: Regional variation in English in British Columbia. Cardoso A, Babel M, Pritchard R. Journal of Linguistic Geography. Published online 2025:1-31. doi:10.1017/jlg.2025.10004. This paper deals with the differences in the pronunciation of four words between B.C.'s Okanagan Valley and the Lower Mainland, and is part of an ongoing investigation into the "Okanagan Accent". |
| July 21, 2025: Groundswell Podcast on CHUA, hosted by David Litke. This podcast covers some of the new music activities by my sister Barbara and me. |
| May, 2025: Assisting artist Heidi Thompson with the creation of an A.I. version of artist Sveva Caetani's voice for Thompson's Rome exhibition in October. |
| May 8, 2025: invited to be part of the Vancouver Art Gallery advisory committee for the planning of a new interactive/immersive environment. |
| Apr 28, 2025: invited to join the Capilano University Music Diploma Advisory Committee |