Victor Lazzarini (born 1969) is a Brazilian-Irish composer and computer music researcher. Born in

Londrina Londrina (, literally "Little London") is a city located in the north of the state of Paraná (state), Paraná, South Region, Brazil, and is 388 km (241 miles) away from the state capital, Curitiba. It is the second largest city in the state and f ...

, Brazil, he studied music in the local conservatory and completed his B.Mus. (Composition) at the

State University of Campinas The University of Campinas (), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated Research institute, researc ...

(UNICAMP). He received a doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 1996. Since 1998, he has been working at

Maynooth University Maynooth University (MU) (), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Maynooth University was formerly known as National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ). It was Ireland ...

, where he is currently a Professor of Music and Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. Lazzarini is one of the leading developers of

Csound Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is named Csound because it is written in the language C, in contrast to some of its predecessors. It is free and open-source software, released under the GNU Les ...

along with

John ffitch John Peter Fitch (also known as John ffitch) is a computer scientist, mathematician and composer, who has worked on relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and Lisp. Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader ...

and Steven Yi, and the author of the Sound Object (SndObj) Library. Lazzarini has contributed a number of new

sound synthesis A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis an ...

techniques such as Modified FM Synthesis, Vector Phase Shaping, Feedback AM, and Adaptive Frequency Modulation. He is the co-editor, with

Richard Boulanger Richard Charles Boulanger (born November 10, 1956) is a composer, author, and electronic musician. He is a key figure in the development of the audio programming language Csound, and is associated with computer music pioneers Max Mathews and Barr ...

, of the Audio Programming Book. Lazzarini has composed music for films, as well as electronic and instrumental works. He was the winner of the AIC/IMRO Mostly Modern International Composer's Competition in Ireland and the Hallward Composition Prize in the UK.

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Victor Lazzarini at the Contemporary Music Centre IrelandThe Audio Programming BlogCross-Adaptive Processing project blogs
Academics of Maynooth University Brazilian composers Brazilian computer scientists Brazilian expatriates in Ireland Living people 1969 births {{Brazil-composer-stub