Lejaren Hiller

• Born: February 23, 1924, New York, NY
• Died: January 26, 1994, Buffalo, NY
• Active: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s
• Genres: Electronica
• Instrument: Composer

Biography

Studied with Harvey Officer, oboe with Joseph Marx, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton, composition with Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions. Founded Experimental Music Studio at Univ. of Illinois in late '50s. Slee Professor of Composition at State University of NY at Buffalo. Collaborated on first significant computer music composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson. Later employed techniques of indeterminancy, serialism, tonality. Collaborated with John Cage on HPSCHD for one to seven Harpsichords and 51 tapes (1968). Also Computer Cantata for soprano, tape and chamber ensemble (1963), Midnight Carnival (1976) for principal tape and indeterminate number of subsidiary tapes and other events. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide