OSCILLATIONS #107: Lejaren Hiller Lejaren Hiller was a chemist and a music composer. Using the ILLIAC computer, Hiller realized that was possible establish various analogies among the research methodology applied in chemistry problems and procedures adopted by composers for musical composition. So, he understood that the random procedures adopted by the computer could be reused in musical contexts. In 1957 he collaborated with Leonard Issacson on his String Quartet No.4, Illiac Suite, the first significant use of a computer to compose music. In 1958 he founded the Experimental Music Studio at the School of Music at the University of Ilinois, a laboratory where musicians and researchers could use electronic technologies for musical scopes. It was also one of the first places where the computer music research got more stability, losing an appearance of a sporadic experimental research. The experience at EMS pushed Hiller to prefer the electronic instruments, analogic or digital as the computer. This definitive conversion towards the art of sounds can be appreciated not only for the works composed but also for the divulgation activities carried out in all over the world.
Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson - Experimental Music: Composition With an Electronic Computer
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