Bob Pritchard (BMus, MusM, DMA) is a Canadian composer living on Canada's West Coast in British Columbia. His works are performed and broadcast internationally and his research includes interactive performance, gesture tracking, and gesture-controlled speech synthesis. He creates video, software, and music for his interactive works, and produces short art films. In 2024 he retired from teaching music technology in the UBC School of Music, where he directed the Laptop Orchestra and coordinated the Minor in Applied Music Technology. He is an emeritus professor at UBC and a researcher with the UBC Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS).

Dr. Pritchard completed degrees at the U. of Toronto and UBC. Prior to teaching at the UBC School of Music he taught at Brock University, the UBC Dept. of Physics, and Douglas College.

RESEARCH: Tracking And Smart Textiles Environment site: TASTE
KiCASS gesture tracking release on gitHub. Click here to download.