About

Christopher Douthitt is a composer, vocalist, electronic musician, and theorist from Spokane, Washington.

Douthitt composes environments and interactions for mixed electroacoustic groups, song-like text and music for voices and non-voices, and concert pieces for traditional acoustic ensembles. His research focuses on developing new digital instruments and investigating various boundary states of song experience.

Douthitt is Lecturer in Electronic Music at Washington University in St Louis, where he teaches classes in synthesis, sound art, digital music composition, and songwriting. He was Interim Director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) for 2020-21. He co-directed Underwolf Records from 2017-2020. He has presented his research at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the Society for Music Theory (SMT), the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), and the Princeton Council on Science and Technology (CST). An avid performer and collaborator, Douthitt fronts the bands the Anaglyphs (in New Jersey) and the Glyphs (in Texas).

Douthitt is currently finishing his PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University. He holds degrees in Music Composition from Mills College and Music Theory from Northwestern University.

CV

Academic portfolio here and current CV here.

Contact

chris.douthitt (at) gmail.com

Portrait and deer photos by James Lam Scheuren.