Chris Rolfe is a software developer specializing in sound design, audio analysis and synthesis, and multi-channel sound.

The founder of Third Monk Software, a Vancouver software and media company since 1996, Chris Rolfe was educated at Princeton (BA Politics, 1992) and Simon Fraser University (MFA Electroacoustic Music, 1996), and has worked as a composer, programmer and sound engineer. Third Monk's projects in recent years have included speech programming for a best-selling video game, theatrical sound design software (ABControl) with funding from the National Research Council and independent sources, real-time granular synthesis software (MacPOD, 1999 Mention, Bourges Software Competition), and numerous workshops, talks, and concerts utilizing multi-channel diffusion software developed by Third Monk.

An overview of some of Chris Rolfe's recent work in multi-channel music diffusion can be found in "A Practical Guide to Diffusion", available online at: http://www.interlog.com/~darcope/difpract.html .

A French language version of the guide will be available in an upcoming issue of eContact! (Canadian Electroacoustic Community's online magazine) at:

http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/cec/econtact/econtact.html .

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