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Lejaren Hiller
12+ albums
contemporary classicalacousmatiqueamericanexperimentalcomputer music
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Lejaren Hiller (b. February 23, 1924, New York City, d. January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) was an American composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. This was his fourth string quartet. He originally trained as a chemist, and worked as a research chemist for DuPont in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1947 to 1952. He developed the first reliable process for dyeing Orlon and coauthored a popular textbook. [1] He played piano, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone as a child. He also studied composition with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt while earning his chemistry degree at Princeton University. His father, Lejaren Hiller, Sr., was a well-known art photographer who specialized in lurid historical tableaux. He wrote an article on the Illiac Suite for Scientific American, which led a lot of attention from the press, and a storm of controversy. The musical establishment was so hostile to this interloper scientist that both Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians refused to include him until shortly before his death. A majority of Hiller's works after 1957, do not involve computers at all, but might include statistical music, indeterminacy, serialism, Brahmsian traditionalism, jazz, performance art, folksong and counterpoint mixed together. He also coll
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Machine Music
802An Apotheosis of Archaeopteryx
683Computer Cantata: Prolog to Strophe I - Strophe I
514Computer Cantata: Prolog To Strophe I; Strophe I
485Illiac Suite for String Quartet
446Computer Cantata: Prolog to Strophe III - Strophe III
437Computer Cantata: Strophe IV - Epilog to Strophe IV
378Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Circus Piece
359Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Toy Harmonium
3410Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Transition
33albums
Computer Music Retrospective
Hiller, Baker, Melby: Computer Music
Lejaren Hiller: A Total Matrix Of Possibilities
Computer Music Retrospective (1957-1985)
Trott, Laurence: Piccolo
Avalanche / Nightmare Music / Suite for Two Pianos and Tape / Computer Music for Tape and Percussion
Lejaren Hiller: Sonatas
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
Hiller: Computer music retrospective (1957-1985)
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American String Quartets 1950-1970 (Concord String Quartet)
Electronic Music from the University of Illinois
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American String Quartets 1950-1970