Matt Rogalsky

Matt Rogalsky is a settler-identifying Canadian, living in Kingston Ontario, also known as Katarokwi, on territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.

He is a performing member of Composers Inside Electronics, with many presentations of Rainforest and other David Tudor works since 1998, and he co-created Rainforest V, which was acquired in 2017 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for its permanent collection. He teaches at Queen's University as Professor in the departments of Drama and Music, Film and Media, and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. He is Director of the Sonic Arts Studio, originally named Queen's Electroacoustic Music Studio, founded by David Keane in the 1970s and later directed by Kristi Allik. In 2024 Rogalsky released a new double album of electronic compositions on the late Phill Niblock’s XI Records label, entitled Visitations and Revisitations.

Rogalsky is currently collaborating with Sonic Geographer Dr Laura Jean Cameron on installation and performance work through their duo TYΦA (Typha), which makes musical use of the woven fibres of cattails from the marshes of Ontario. They also have an ongoing study of the life and practices of early Canadian field recordist William W.H. Gunn, which has resulted in several installation works.

Formative studies included many mentors and teachers, significantly Martin Bartlett, Barry Truax, Pauline Oliveros, George E Lewis, Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton and many others; his PhD (2006) with Simon Emmerson from City University London focuses on the history of David Tudor's Rainforest.