Scott Wilson (born November 26, 1969, in Vancouver) is a Canadian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. He studied music and composition in Canada, the U.S., and Germany, and his teachers include

Barry Truax Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. He is credited with developing the first ever implementation of real-time granular s ...

, Wolfgang Rihm,

Christos Hatzis Christos Hatzis ( el, Χρήστος Χατζής; born 1953) is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Early ...

, Gary Kulesha,

Ron Kuivila Ron Kuivila (born December 19, 1955) is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, performances, and recorded materials that make use of computers, and for his contributions to the SuperCollider ...

Alvin Lucier Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Mi ...

, Owen Underhill,

Neely Bruce (Frank) Neely Bruce (born January 21, 1944) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and scholar of American music. He is the composer of over 800 works including three full-length operas. Currently, he is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music a ...

and David Gordon Duke. Since 2004 he has lived in Birmingham, UK, where he is Reader in Electronic Music and Director of

Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, or as it is more commonly known, BEAST, is a sound diffusion system specifically designed for the performance of electroacoustic music. It is a long-running project of the Electroacoustic Music Studios at ...

and the Electroacoustic Studios at the University of Birmingham. His works include pieces both for instrumental and electroacoustic forces. He is the Director of

, for which he has developed custom software, and an active developer of the

SuperCollider A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them in well-defined beams. Large accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle ...

computer music language. He was the lead editor of ''The SuperCollider Book'' published by MIT Press, was a co-author of ''Electronic Music'' with

Nick Collins (composer) Nick Collins (born 1975) is a British academic and computer music composer. From 2006–2013 he lived in Brighton, UK, and ran the music informatics degrees at the University of Sussex. In 2013 he became Reader at the University of Durham. He ...

and Margaret Schedel published by Cambridge University Press, and has published in journals including Organised Sound and the

Computer Music Journal ''Computer Music Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The journal is accompa ...

. His music has been performed internationally, with performances at the Huddersfield Festival, the Mouvement Festival, the Trash Festival, Open Ears, the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, and the Cool Drummings Festival, and broadcast on

CBC Radio 2 CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards a ...

, Radio France, Netherlands Concertzender, and

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. Works have been performed by

Darragh Morgan Darragh Morgan (Belfast, 1974) is an Irish violinist. Darragh has established himself as a soloist of new music giving numerous recitals aSonorities Festival, as well as in Prague, Malta, Nicosia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Italy, Switzerl ...

Esprit Orchestra The Esprit Orchestra is an orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that is dedicated to the performance of new orchestral works. It was established in 1983 by music director and conductor Alex Pauk, and is Canada's only full-sized orchestra d ...

, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and others, and has been recorded on labels including Edition RZ Diatribe Records and 326 music. Notable former students include Sergio Luque, Norah Lorway, Richard Bullen, Shelly Knotts, and Sam Pluta.

External links

Official site

University of Birmingham Staff PageCanadian Music Centre Page

University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Studios

References

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