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• Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah
  Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah
  Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rodolfo Acosta
  Rodolfo Acosta
  Rodolfo Acosta was a Mexican character actor, typically playing heavies in Hollywood westerns. Acosta was also a regular as Vaquero on The High Chaparral from 1967-69...
  
  
• Mathew Adkins
  Mathew Adkins
  Monty Adkins is a composer, performer and lecturer in electroacoustic music.Monty Adkins is a composer, performer and lecturer in electroacoustic music....
  
  
• Klaus Ager
  Klaus Ager
  Klaus Ager is an Austrian composer and conductor.Ager studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1975 to 1986 he directed the Österreichische Ensemble für Neue Musik . In 1977 he founded the ASPEKTE-FESTIVAL, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2006...
  
  
• Javier Álvarez
• Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
  Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
  Miguel Álvarez-Fernández is a sound artist, composer, theorist and curator based between Madrid and Berlin, where he has taught at the Electronic Music Studio of the Technical University of Berlin...
  
  
• Charles Amirkhanian
  Charles Amirkhanian
  Charles Amirkhanian is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian extraction. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music...
  
  
• Jorge Antunes
• Jon Appleton
  Jon Appleton
  Jon Howard Appleton is an American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d'Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music...
  
  
• Bülent Arel
  Bülent Arel
  Bülent Arel was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.He was born in Istanbul, and studied composition at the Ankara Conservatory and sound engineering in Paris...
  
  
• Patrick Ascione
  Patrick Ascione
  Patrick Ascione is a French composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music.- Biography :Patrick Ascione began composing in 1976 and shortly after joined the team of the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges which he subsequently left in 1984...
  
  
• Robert Ashley
  Robert Ashley
  Robert Ashley , is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
  
  
• Kevin Austin
  Kevin Austin
  Kevin Levi Austin is an English born Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Boston United.-Leyton Orient:...
  
  
• Larry Austin
  Larry Austin
  Larry Austin is a United States composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde...
  
  
• Nigel Ayers
  Nigel Ayers
  Nigel Ayers is a multimedia artist born in Tideswell, Derbyshire, England, in 1957.His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performances through his genre-busting group Nocturnal Emissions....
  
  

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• Milton Babbitt
  Milton Babbitt
  Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Claude Ballif
  Claude Ballif
  Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....
  
  
• Stephen Mark Barchan
  Stephen Mark Barchan
  Stephen Mark Barchan is a British composer and conductor.-Career:Barchan studied composition with Richard Steinitz and Edwin Roxburgh .Organisations who have presented his music include London Sinfonietta Collective, LSO Discovery, Park Lane...
  
  
• Clarence Barlow
  Clarence Barlow
  Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...
  
  
• Louis and Bebe Barron
  Louis and Bebe Barron
  Bebe Barron and Louis Barron were two American pioneers in the field of electronic music...
  
  
• François Bayle
  François Bayle
  François Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
  
  
• Andrew Bentley
  Andrew Bentley
  Andrew Bentley is a professional rugby league footballer. A France international representative forward, he has previously played for the Catalans Dragons of Super League...
  
  
• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
  
  
• Pierre Bernard
  Pierre Bernard
  Pierre Bernard, Jr. is a graphic designer and comedian, most notable for his work on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Conan. He had a recurring sketch called "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage", where he would complain about issues that concern him while...
  
  
• Michael von Biel
  Michael von Biel
  Michael von Biel is a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist.Von Biel studied piano, theory, and composition in Toronto , Vienna , New York , London , and Cologne...
  
  
• Boris Blacher
• Lars-Gunnar Bodin
• Konrad Boehmer
  Konrad Boehmer
  Konrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth.Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• André Boucourechliev
  André Boucourechliev
  André Boucourechliev was a French composer of Bulgarian origin.Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he later taught piano...
  
  
• Ned Bouhalassa
  Ned Bouhalassa
  Ned Bouhalassa is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been residing in Montreal since 1967....
  
  
• Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
  
  
• James Brody
  James Brody
  James Brody was an American composer, born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Frank J. Oteri of the American Music Center's New Music Box called Brody "an important figure in the development of electronic music in the Midwest"....
  
  
• Herbert Brün
  Herbert Brun
  Herbert Brün was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired, several years before his death.-Career:...
  
  
• George Brunner
• Karl Gottfried Brunotte
  Karl Gottfried Brunotte
  Karl Gottfried Brunotte is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music.-Biography:Brunotte finished school in Bad Homburg...
  
  

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• Rodrigo Cadiz
  Rodrigo Cadiz
  Rodrigo F. Cádiz is a composer and engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he studied with Alejandro Guarello, Aliosha Solovera and Pablo Aranda. He obtained his Ph.D...
  
  
• John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  
• Christian Calon
  Christian Calon
  Christian Calon is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Council, the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, and the Ministère des...
  
  
• Roberto Carnevale
  Roberto Carnevale
  Roberto Carnevale is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Biography and career :Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...
  
  
• Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music who is best known for his releases in the ambient, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company, Silent Records...
  
  
• Lawrence Chandler
  Lawrence Chandler
  Lawrence Chandler is an American-born musician, composer and sound artist living in London. He studied with La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, at The Juilliard School and Goldsmiths College. He was a founder member of Bowery Electric and has worked for Philip Glass.-References:...
  
  
• Unsuk Chin
  Unsuk Chin
  Unsuk Chin , is a South Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005.- Biography :...
  
  
• Michel Chion
  Michel Chion
  Michel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual...
  
  
• John Chowning
  John Chowning
  John M. Chowning is an American composer, musician, inventor, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University and his invention of FM synthesis while there.-Contribution:...
  
  
• Darren Copeland
  Darren Copeland
  Darren Copeland is an electroacoustic music composer born June 18, 1968 in Bramalea, Ontario, Canada, and currently living in Brampton, Ontario, Canada....
  
  
• Noah Creshevsky
  Noah Creshevsky
  -Biography:Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School, Creshevsky has lived and worked in New York since 1966. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for thirty-one years, serving as Director of the Brooklyn College Center...
  
  

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• Yves Daoust
  Yves Daoust
  Yves Daoust is a Canadian composer who is particularly known for his works of electroacoustic music. He currently resides in Montréal.-Life:...
  
  
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
  
  
• Dan Deacon
  Dan Deacon
  Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...
  
  
• Michel Decoust
  Michel Decoust
  Michel Decoust is a French composer and conductor.Decoust studied from 1956 to 1965 with Jean Rivier and Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as at the Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964–65, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
  
  
• Delia Derbyshire
  Delia Derbyshire
  Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.-Early...
  
  
• Francis Dhomont
  Francis Dhomont
  Francis Dhomont is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music.-Biography:He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger...
  
  
• Tod Dockstader
  Tod Dockstader
  Tod Dockstader is an American composer of electronic music, and particularly musique concrète. He studied painting and film while at the University of Minnesota, before moving to Hollywood in 1955, to become an apprentice film editor...
  
  
• Charles Dodge
  Charles Dodge (composer)
  Charles Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller.-Education and teaching career:...
  
  
• Paul Dolden
  Paul Dolden
  Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic music composer born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic music composer born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic...
  
  
• Kyle Bobby Dunn
  Kyle Bobby Dunn
  Kyle Bobby Dunn is a composer, arranger, and live performer of modern and neo-classical based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 2000 and has released music on various international recording labels.His work has been described...
  
  

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• John Eaton
  John Eaton (composer)
  John Charles Eaton is an American composer , MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American composer (Anon. [n.d.]; Morgan 2001), MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of...
  
  
• Herbert Eimert
  Herbert Eimert
  Herbert Eimert was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer.-Life:...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Éloy
  Jean-Claude Éloy
  Jean-Claude Éloy is a French composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music.In his work Éloy realized one of the most significant syntheses of 20th-century music: between electronic and acoustic music, between Western and non-Western traditions...
  
  
• Simon Emmerson
• Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
  
• Peter Eötvös
  Peter Eötvös
  Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...
  
  
• Robert Erickson
  Robert Erickson
  Robert Erickson was an American composer.He studied with Ernst Krenek from 1936-1947: "I had already studied—and abandoned—the twelve tone system before most other Americans had taken it up." He influenced notable students Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Paul Dresher...
  
  

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• Kenneth Gaburo
  Kenneth Gaburo
  -Life:Gaburo was born in Somerville, New Jersey. He served as a professor of music at the University of Illinois, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Iowa. His notable students include James Tenney and Allen Strange...
  
  
• Bernhard Gál
  Bernhard Gál
  Bernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.-Biography:Bernhard Gál works between the categories, creating music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of...
  
  
• Roberto Garcia
  Roberto García
  Roberto García is the bassist for the power metal band WarCry, also known for his work on Avalanch.-History:...
  
  
• Rolf Gehlhaar
  Rolf Gehlhaar
  Rolf Gehlhaar in Breslau , is an American composer.Gehlhaar is the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico...
  
  
• Roberto Gerhard
  Roberto Gerhard
  Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Robert Gerhard.-Life:...
  
  
• Jacob Gilboa
  Jacob Gilboa
  Yehuda Jacob Gilboa was born as Erwin Goldberg and was an Israeli composer.Gilboa was born in Košice, Slovakia. Some years later he lived in Vienna, where he received training in playing the piano. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine, where he initially studied in Haifa at the Institute for Technology...
  
  
• Gilles Gobeil
  Gilles Gobeil
  Gilles Gobeil is an electroacoustic music composer born September 27, 1954, in Sorel, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Canada.Gilles Gobeil is an electroacoustic music composer born September 27, 1954, in Sorel, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Canada.Gilles Gobeil is an...
  
  
• Lucien Goethals
  Lucien Goethals
  -Life:Lucien Goethals was born in Ghent, but spent his formative years in Argentina, where he studied at the Dima Conservatory of Buenos Aires. When he returned to Belgium, he continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent up to 1956, where he earned his first prize in organ, music...
  
  
• Karel Goeyvaerts
  Karel Goeyvaerts
  Karel Goeyvaerts was a Belgian composer.-Life:After studies at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, Goeyvaerts studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen...
  
  

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• Jonty Harrison
  Jonty Harrison
  Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic...
  
  
• Jonathan Harvey
  Jonathan Harvey (composer)
  Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...
  
  
• Pierre Henry
  Pierre Henry
  Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lejaren Hiller
  Lejaren Hiller
  Lejaren Arthur Hiller was an American composer. In 1957 he collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. It was his fourth string quartet. In 1958 he founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
  
  
• Brian Hodgson
  Brian Hodgson
  Brian Hodgson is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool in 1938, Hodgson joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962 where he became the original sound effects creator for the science fiction programme Doctor Who...
  
  
• York Höller
  York Höller
  York Höller is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.-Biography:Between 1963 and 1970 Höller studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohrand Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral...
  
  
• Sarah Horick
  Sarah Horick
  Sarah Horick is a composer of contemporary concert music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition from Furman University in 2006 where she studied with Mark Kilstofte. She earned a Master of Music in Composition and a Master of Arts in Music Theory at Florida...
  
  
• Nicolaus A. Huber
  Nicolaus A. Huber
  Nicolaus A. Huber is a German composer.From 1958 to 1962 Huber studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above...
  
  

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• Michał Jacaszek
  Jacaszek
  Michał Jacaszek is a Polish electroacoustic musician, often credited on albums simply as Jacaszek.-Discography:Studio Albums* Lo Fi Stories* Lem Konzept* Sequel* Kompleta* Treny...
  
  
• Alden Jenks
  Alden Jenks
  -Biography:Alden Jenks was born in Michigan and received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie and Seymour Shifrin...
  
  
• David C. Johnson
• Ben Johnston
• David Evan Jones
  David Evan Jones
  David Evan Jones is a composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music, and professor of music at UCSC. His notable compositions include Scritto, which features digitally manipulated vowel sounds. He has also written one chamber opera, Bardos, which premiered in Seoul, South Korea in 2004.-...
  
  

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• Shigeru Kan-no
  Shigeru Kan-no
  is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.-Biography:Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented musician, able to play...
  
  
• Richard Karpen
  Richard Karpen
  Richard Karpen is an American composer of electronic and acoustic music. He is also known for developing computer applications for music and composition.- Biography :...
  
  
• Georg Katzer
  Georg Katzer
  Georg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...
  
  
• Dieter Kaufmann
  Dieter Kaufmann
  Dieter Kaufmann is an Austrian composer.-Biography:Kaufmann was born in Vienna and grew up in Carinthia.He studied music, German philology, art history, violoncello, composition and electro-acoustic music Dieter Kaufmann (born April 22, 1941) is an Austrian composer.-Biography:Kaufmann was born...
  
  
• Gottfried Michael Koenig
  Gottfried Michael Koenig
  Gottfried Michael Koenig is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.-Biography:Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, piano, analysis and acoustics in Detmold, music representation techniques in Cologne and computer technique in Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the...
  
  
• Panayiotis Kokoras
  Panayiotis Kokoras
  Panayiotis Kokoras is a Greek composer, musician, teacher, writer and Vice President of HELMCA -Studies:Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi, K. Varotsi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at...
  
  
• Włodzimierz Kotoński
• Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
  
  
• Petri Kuljuntausta
  Petri Kuljuntausta
  Petri Kuljuntausta is a composer, musician, sound artist and author of three books on electronic music and sound art. Since 1990's he has belonged to a new generation of composers in Finland interested in experimental and electronic music....
  
  
• Erkki Kurenniemi
  Erkki Kurenniemi
  Erkki Kurenniemi is a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is considered one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland...
  
  

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• Paul Lansky
  Paul Lansky
  Paul Lansky is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day .-Biography:...
  
  
• Andrew Lewis
  Andrew Lewis (composer)
  Andrew Lewis is a British composer known mainly for his acousmatic music, that is, electroacoustic music heard only over loudspeakers, though he also composes some chamber and orchestral music....
  
  
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  
• Douglas Lilburn
  Douglas Lilburn
  Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ FRCM was a New Zealand composer.-Early life:Lilburn was born in Wanganui. He attended Waitaki Boys' High School from 1930 to 1933, before moving to Christchurch to study journalism and music at Canterbury University College...
  
  
• Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...
  
  
• Francisco López
  Francisco López (musician)
  Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries...
  
  
• Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...
  
  
• Otto Luening
  Otto Luening
  Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....
  
  

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• John McGuire
  John McGuire (composer)
  John McGuire is an American composer, pianist, organist, and music editor.-Biography:John McGuire initially studied composition with Robert Gross at Occidental College, where he earned a BA in 1964. He received a succession of three Alfred E...
  
  
• François-Bernard Mâche
  François-Bernard Mâche
  François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...
  
  
• Robert MacKay
  Robert Mackay
  Robert Mackay was a Canadian businessman and statesman.An 1855 emigrant to Montreal, Canada from his birthplace in Caithness, Scotland, Robert Mackay got his start working at the Henry Morgan & Company department store. He then went to work for Mackay Brothers wholesalers, owned by his uncles...
  
  
• Robin Maconie
  Robin Maconie
  Robin Maconie is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer.Robin Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a Master of Arts in the History and Literature of Music in 1964...
  
  
• Bruno Maderna
  Bruno Maderna
  Bruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer. For the last ten years of his life he lived in Germany and eventually became a citizen of that country.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mesías Maiguashca
  Mesías Maiguashca
  Mesías Maiguashca , is an Ecuadorian composer, an advocate of the new music, especially electroacoustic music.-Biography:...
  
  
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• Pierre Mariétan
  Pierre Mariétan
  Pierre Mariétan is a Swiss composer.-Biography:Mariétan studied first at the Geneva Conservatory in 1955–60 with Marescotti, and later with, amongst others, Pierre Boulez, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and his earliest works are...
  
  
• Jean-Etienne Marie
  Jean-Etienne Marie
  Jean-Etienne Marie was a French composer of contemporary music. He is an important figure in the history and exploration of Microtonal music and electroacoustic.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pierre Mariétan
  Pierre Mariétan
  Pierre Mariétan is a Swiss composer.-Biography:Mariétan studied first at the Geneva Conservatory in 1955–60 with Marescotti, and later with, amongst others, Pierre Boulez, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and his earliest works are...
  
  
• Salvatore Martirano
  Salvatore Martirano
  Salvatore Giovanni Martirano was an American composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois...
  
  
• Elio Martusciello
  Elio Martusciello
  Elio Martusciello is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self taught musician/composer and teaches "electronic music" at...
  
  
• Toshiro Mayuzumi
  Toshiro Mayuzumi
  Toshiro Mayuzumi was a Japanese composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
  
• Costin Miereanu
  Costin Miereanu
  Costin Miereanu is a French composer and musicologist of Romanian birth.-Biography:Miereanu studied from 1960 to 1966 at the Music Academy of Bucharest with Alfred Mendelsohn, Dan Constantinescu, and Lazar Octavian Cosma, and later at the École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales, at the...
  
  
• Ilhan Mimaroglu
  Ilhan Mimaroglu
  İlhan Mimaroğlu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 11, 1926, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the...
  
  
• Adrian Moore
  Adrian Moore (composer)
  Adrian Moore is an electroacoustic music composer born January 1969 in Nottingham, UK, and currently living in Sheffield, UK. He is director of the University of Sheffield .-Biography:...
  
  
• Robert Morris
  Robert Morris (composer)
  Robert Morris is an American composer and music theorist.-Work in music theory:As a music theorist, Morris' work has bridged an important gap between the rigorously academic and the highly experimental. Born in Cheltenham, England in 1943, Morris received his musical education at the Eastman...
  
  
• Nico Muhly
  Nico Muhly
  Nico Muhly is a contemporary classical music composer, who has worked and recorded with classical and pop/rock musicians. He currently lives in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan in New York City.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gordon Mumma
  Gordon Mumma
  Gordon Mumma is an American composer. He cofounded Ann Arbor's Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music with Robert Ashley, was a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was a member of the Sonic Arts Union with Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman...
  
  

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• Stephen Nachmanovitch
  Stephen Nachmanovitch
  Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator. He is an improvisational violinist, and writes and teaches about improvisation, creativity, and systems approaches in many fields of activity.-Biography:...
  
  
• Luigi Nono
  Luigi Nono
  Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...
  
  
• Arne Nordheim
  Arne Nordheim
  Arne Nordheim was a Norwegian composer who had since 1982 been living in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary...
  
  
• Robert Normandeau
  Robert Normandeau
  Robert Normandeau is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer.Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont...
  
  
• Emmanuel Nunes
  Emmanuel Nunes
  -Biography:Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University . He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , and in 1964 moved to Paris...
  
  

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• Elizabeth Parker
• Bernard Parmegiani
  Bernard Parmegiani
  Bernard Parmegiani is a composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.-Biography:Between 1957 and 1961 he studied mime with Jacques Lecoq, a period he later regarded as important to his work as a composer...
  
  
• Åke Parmerud
  Åke Parmerud
  Åke Parmerud is a Swedish composer, musician, and multimedia artist noted for his acoustic and electronic works, which have been performed mostly in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He is also noted for the design of stage and acoustics as well as interactive media and software...
  
  
• Jorge Peixinho
  Jorge Peixinho
  Jorge Peixinho was a Portuguese composer, pianist, and conductor.Peixinho studied composition and piano initially at the Conservatory of Lisbon , then studied composition with Boris Porena and Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia de Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduating in 1961...
  
  
• Michel Philippot
  Michel Philippot
  Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.-Life:...
  
  
• Larry Polansky
  Larry Polansky
  Larry Polansky is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. He is a founding member and co-director of . He co-wrote HMSL with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom....
  
  
• Zoltán Pongrácz
  Zoltán Pongrácz
  Zoltán Pongrácz was a Hungarian composer.Pongrácz studied composition from 1930 to 1935 with Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music...
  
  
• Henri Pousseur
  Henri Pousseur
  Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography:Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris...
  
  

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• Eliane Radigue
  Eliane Radigue
  Eliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape...
  
  
• Guy Reibel
  Guy Reibel
  Guy Reibel is an electronic or acousmatic composer.Made his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.Trained under Olivier Messiaen...
  
  
• Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
  Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
  
  
• Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Risset
  Jean-Claude Risset
  Jean-Claude Risset is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs....
  
  
• Curtis Roads
  Curtis Roads
  Curtis Roads is a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis, author, and computer programmer....
  
  
• Manuel Rocha Iturbide
  Manuel Rocha Iturbide
  Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a Mexican composer and sound artist.-Biography:Manuel Rocha Iturbide was born in 1963 in Mexico City, he started musical studies when he was 13 years old. In 1983, after studying musical pedagogy in Lyon France for one year, he decided to start a career as composer at the...
  
  
• Neil Rolnick
  Neil Rolnick
  Neil B. Rolnick is an American composer and educator living in New York City.Rolnick's compositions have appeared on 16 records and CDs...
  
  
• David Rosenboom
  David Rosenboom
  David Rosenboom is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback, cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms...
  
  

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• Pierre Schaeffer
  Pierre Schaeffer
  Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...
  
  
• Barry Schrader
  Barry Schrader
  Barry Schrader is an American composer specializing in electro-acoustic music. His compositions for electronics, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world...
  
  
• Ramon Sender
  Ramon Sender
  Ramon Sender Barayón is a composer, writer and the co-founder, with Morton Subotnick, of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1961. He studied with George Copeland, Elliott Carter, and Robert Erickson....
  
  
• Elzbieta Sikora
• Denis Smalley
  Denis Smalley
  Denis Arthur Smalley is a composer of electroacoustic music, with a special interest in acousmatic music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...
  
  
• Tim Souster
  Tim Souster
  Tim Souster was a British composer best known for his electronic music output.- Background :Born Timothy Andrew James Souster in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Souster was educated at Bedford Modern School and New College, Oxford...
  
  
• Georgia Spiropoulos
  Georgia Spiropoulos
  Georgia Spiropoulos is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied...
  
  
• Howard Stelzer
  Howard Stelzer
  Howard Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
  
  
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
  
• Pete Stollery
  Pete Stollery
  Pete Stollery is a British composer, specialising in electroacoustic music.Stollery studied with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham from 1979–96, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen.His work Shortstuff was awarded a Special...
  
  
• Allen Strange
  Allen Strange
  Allen Strange was an American composer. He authored two books, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls and Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism...
  
  
• Zsigmond Szathmáry
  Zsigmond Szathmáry
  Zsigmond Szathmáry is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor.-Life:Szathmáry studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963...
  
  

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• Yūji Takahashi
  Yuji Takahashi
  is a Japanese composer, performer, pianist and author.Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1960, he made his debut as a pianist by performing Bo Nilsson's Quantitaten. He lived in Europe from 1963 to 1966 where he worked with Iannis Xenakis. He gave the...
  
  
• Toru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
  
  
• Ivan Tcherepnin
  Ivan Tcherepnin
  Ivan Tcherepnin was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer. He was born into a highly musical family, his father and grandfather, Alexander and Nikolai, being distinguished Russian composers, and his mother Ming a well-known pianist...
  
  
• Serge Tcherepnin
  Serge Tcherepnin
  Serge Tcherepnin is an American composer and electronic-instrument builder of Russian-Chinese origin. He created the Serge Modular synthesizer.-Biography:...
  
  
• James Tenney
  James Tenney
  James Tenney was an American composer and influential music theorist.-Biography:Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College and the University of Illinois...
  
  
• Robert Scott Thompson
  Robert Scott Thompson
  Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and...
  
  
• Javier Torres Maldonado
  Javier Torres Maldonado
  Javier Torres Maldonado is a Mexican-Italian composer internationally recognized for mostly of his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gilles Tremblay
  Gilles Tremblay
  Gilles Tremblay, is a Canadian composer. He studied at the Conservatories of Montreal and Paris , where his teachers including Olivier Messiaen , Yvonne Loriod , and Maurice Martenot . He also attended Stockhausen's summer courses at Darmstadt, where he became interested in electro-acoustic...
  
  
• Marc Tremblay
  Marc Tremblay
  Marc Tremblay is a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft in April 2009, he was senior vice president and chief technology officer of the microelectronics business unit at Sun Microsystems. He was instrumental in the design of various microprocessors at Sun, including the...
  
  
• Barry Truax
  Barry Truax
  Barry Truax is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes...
  
  
• Stephen Truelove
  Stephen Truelove
  Stephen Nathan Truelove is an American composer, teacher, and pianist.-Life:Truelove was born in Hobart, Oklahoma, and studied composition at Tulsa University, where he received an M.M. in 1970...
  
  
• Hans Tutschku
  Hans Tutschku
  Hans Tutschku is a German composer.He has been a member of the Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber", Dresden and since 1989 has participated in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen...
  
  

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• Horacio Vaggione
  Horacio Vaggione
  Horacio Vaggione is an electro-acoustic and musique concrète composer who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and thus microsound and whose pieces often are for performer and computer-generated tape...
  
  
• Annette Vande Gorne
  Annette Vande Gorne
  Annette Vande Gorne is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium.-Biography:Annette Vande Gorne was born in Charleroi, Belgium. She initially studied music at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, and privately with Jean Absil...
  
  
• Edgar Varèse
• Alejandro Vinao
  Alejandro Viñao
  Alejandro Viñao is an Argentinian composer currently living in the United Kingdom.Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Fischer . In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City...
  
  
• Ezequiel Viñao
  Ezequiel Viñao
  Ezequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School...
  
  
• Claude Vivier
  Claude Vivier
  -Biography:Born to unknown parents in Montreal, Vivier was adopted at the age of three by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen, he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. At the age of...
  
  
• Robert Voisey
  Robert Voisey
  Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...
  
  
• Dimitri Voudouris
  Dimitri Voudouris
  Dimitri Voudouris [Δημητριος Βουδουρης] - [born 1961 in Athens, Greece] an electroacoustic composer and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI, the first electronic music festival and symposium on the African continent in 2005 that took place at University of the Witwatersrand, in...