Leigh Landy (born 1951) is a

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and

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of Dutch and American citizenship. He holds a Research Chair at

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where he directs th
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre

Composition

Landy's compositions include several works for video, dance and theatre. He has worked extensively with the late playwright,

Heiner Müller Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd ...

, the new media artist, Michel Jaffrennou and the composer-performer, Jos Zwaanenburg. He was composer in residence for the Dutch National Theatre during its first years of existence and is currently co-director of ''Idée Fixe'' – Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre with the choreographer
Evelyn Jamieson
A complete list of his compositions, recordings, publications and other creative endeavours can be found on hi
personal website

Musicology

Landy's musicological publications focus on studies of electroacoustic music, including the notion of musical dramaturgy, contemporary music in a cross-arts context, access and the contemporary time-based arts, and devising practices in the performing arts. He is editor of the international journal of music technology

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(

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) and author of over 100 articles (see his personal website) and eight books including: * What’s the Matter with Today’s Experimental Music? (

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, 1991) * Experimental Music Notebooks (

, 1994) * Devising Dance and Music: Idée Fixe – Experimental Sound and Movement Theatre (

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, 2000, now on the author's website) * Understanding the Art of Sound Organization (

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, 2007) * La musique des sons/The Music of Sounds (Sorbonne MINT/OMF, 2007) * Making Music with Sounds (

, 2012) * ‘Compose Your Words’ eBook (Intelligent Arts, New York, 2014) * Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis Simon Emmerson, Leigh Landy, Eds. (

, 2017) He directs the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS) project and is a founding member of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS).Compose with Sounds (CwS)
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References

External links

Leigh Landy Personal website
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