Website www.strazds.com Role Composer · strazds.com | Name Armands Strazds Education Riga Technical University | |
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Born March 10, 1970 (age 54) ( 1970-03-10 ) Riga, Latvia Occupation Composer
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Armands Strazds (born March 10, 1970 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer, software developer, education researcher and political activist.
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He studied composition with Gederts Ramans at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music and with Friedhelm Dohl at the Lubeck Academy of Music, where he also studied computer music with Dirk Reith. His PhD studies with Frieder Nake at University of Bremen are on theory of signs, and with Atis Kapenieks at Riga Technical University were on new learning technologies. He and Kapenieks have published several papers in the area.
Armands Strazds is the developer of the algorithmic composition systems, Digital Winds (1995), Hymnica (2003) and Suranadira (Heaven's River, 2014). Plays with his music were performed by the National Theater of Latvia (Bezkaunigie veci, 1990 and Heda Gablere, 1991) and The New Riga Theater (Talak, 2005). Since 1990, many of his compositions for theatre drama, including Pulss (Pulse) and Es mileju vinu (I loved him) were broadcast on Latvian national radio.
Strazds (together with Modris Tenisons) is the creator of the Zime Project which was the central exhibit of the Latvia Pavilion at Expo 2000. Zimes, from the Latvian word for "sign", are coloured graphic patterns generated by the computer encryption of texts, pictures, or sounds. During the course of Expo 2000, 300,000 visitors to the Latvia Pavilion generated their personal zimes, including the (then) President of Latvia, Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
Strazds is founder of the RTFL think tank (2008), and editor of the "Latvia Renewed" economic development program, ISBN 978-9984-49-055-7, Riga 2010. His attempt to found a social-democratic party in Latvia on 15 December 2012 failed.
Strazds is author of the Golden Book sequence A248646.