Matt Rogalsky
Tutor "David Tudor: Rainforest IV"

Born in 1966 in Umuahia, Nigeria. Matt Rogalsky is a settler-identifying Canadian, living in Kingston Ontario Canada, also known as Katarokwi, on territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. His academic background includes undergraduate studies in experimental music at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver from 1985–91; MA studies 1993–95 in the Department of Music at Wesleyan University; and a PhD (1999–2006) from City University London focusing on the history of David Tudor’s Rainforest.
He is a performing member of Composers Inside Electronics, with many presentations of Rainforest and other David Tudor works since 1998. He teaches at Queen’s University (Canada) 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.
Rogalsky is currently collaborating with Geographer Dr Laura Jean Cameron on installation work and an experimental monograph and radio documentary series about Canadian field recordist William WH Gunn. In 2024, he released a new double album of electronic compositions with a new release on the late Phill Niblock’s XI Records, entitled Visitations and Revisitations.
Matt Rogalsky is a guest at the Darmstadt Summer Course for the first time.