Major in Music Industry Technology (PRE-recording arts students are NOT eligible)
Continuing or transfer sophomore, junior or senior.
Recipient must demonstrate scholastic excellence, creativity, a passion for recording arts and must work well with others.
Music and Theatre Department requires a Recording Arts & Music Industry interview.
Raymond Barker earned a BA in Music at CSU, Chico and at the University of Oregon he was awarded the Color of Musical Arts in Composition degree. He has studied electronic computer music composition with Robert Moog, Donald Buchia, Jon Appleton, Barry Vercoe, Herbert Howe, and John Rogers. He composes both traditional and electronic media. Major works include Martha (a quadraphonic electronic composition), Improvisations for Orchestra, Lassen Idyll (a chamber symphony), Toccata & Passacaglia for Organ, and Moodscape, a composition for orchestra and quadraphonic electronic sound. Professor Barker taught at Chico State for 37 years. His teaching duties included Theory, American Music, Introduction to Non-Western Music, 20th Century Music, Audio Recording, Fundamentals of Digital Audio, Composition With Electronic Media, as well as Graduate Theory Seminars in Schenkerian and Color Analysis. He chaired the Department of Music from 1982 to 1987. He is the founder of CSU, Chico’s Electronic Music Studio and Recording Arts Program. He also served a faculty member and recording engineer at the Aspen Music Festival and Recording Arts Institute, recording Quartet, American Brass Quintet, Maxim Shostakovich, Jorge Mester, James DePreist, and Luciano Berio. In 2010, the Music Department’s recording studio was name the “Raymond Barker Recording Arts Studio”.
