Scott Wilson (composer) explained

Scott Wilson (born November 26, 1969, in Vancouver) is a Canadian composer.[1] He studied music and composition in Canada, the U.S., and Germany, and his teachers include Barry Truax, Wolfgang Rihm, Christos Hatzis, Gary Kulesha, Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Owen Underhill, Neely Bruce and David Gordon Duke.[2] Since 2004 he has lived in Birmingham, UK, where he is Reader in Electronic Music and Director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre[3] and the Electroacoustic Studios at the University of Birmingham.[4]

His works include pieces both for instrumental and electroacoustic forces. He is the Director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, for which he has developed custom software,[5] and an active developer of the SuperCollider computer music language. He was the lead editor of The SuperCollider Book[6] [7] [8] published by MIT Press, was a co-author of Electronic Music [9] [10] with Nick Collins (composer) and Margaret Schedel published by Cambridge University Press, and has published in journals including Organised Sound[11] and the Computer Music Journal.[12]

His music has been performed internationally, with performances at the Huddersfield Festival, the Mouvement Festival, the Trash Festival, Open Ears, the Inventionen Festival[13] in Berlin, and the Cool Drummings Festival, and broadcast on CBC Radio 2, Radio France, Netherlands Concertzender, and BBC Radio 3. Works have been performed by Darragh Morgan, Esprit Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and others, and has been recorded on labels including Edition RZ[14] Diatribe Records[15] and 326 music.

Notable former students include Sergio Luque,[16] Norah Lorway,[17] Richard Bullen,[18] Shelly Knotts,[19] and Sam Pluta.[20]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Canadian Music Centre Page. 2008-08-20.
  2. Web site: About . scottwilson.ca. en-CA. 2018-07-30.
  3. Web site: About. BEAST. 23 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Scott Wilson . 2008-08-20 .
  5. Web site: Loudspeaker Orchestras. Sound On Sound. 23 January 2018.
  6. Book: Wilson . Scott . Collins . Nick . Cottle . David . The SuperCollider Book . 2011 . MIT Press . 9780262232692 . Cambridge MA .
  7. Anderson J . 2013 . Richard Boulanger and Victor Lazzarini, eds, The Audio Programming Book. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-262-01446-5 Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins, eds, The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-262-23269-2. . Organised Sound . 18 . 1 . 92–6 . 10.1017/S1355771812000271 . 61688112 . 2018-01-23 .
  8. Phillips . Dave . 2011-08-29 . The SuperCollider Book: A Review . Linux Journal . 2018-01-23 .
  9. Book: Collins . Nick . Schedel . Margaret . Wilson . Scott . Electronic Music . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 9780511820540 . 10.1017/CBO9780511820540 . Cambridge Introductions to Music . 2013 . 822560190 .
  10. Adkins M . 2015 . Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel and Scott Wilson, Cambridge Introductions to Music: Electronic Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 981107648173 (paperback); 9781107010923 (hardback) . Organised Sound . 20 . 2 . 273–75 . 10.1017/S1355771815000151 . 61414523 . 2018-01-23 .
  11. Rethinking the BEAST: Recent developments in multichannel composition at Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre . 2010 . 10.1017/S1355771810000312 . 2018-01-23 . Wilson . Scott . Harrison . Jonty . Organised Sound . 15 . 3 . 239–250 . 62738199 .
  12. Free as in BEER: Some Explorations into Structured Improvisation Using Networked Live-Coding Systems . 2014 . 10.1162/COMJ_a_00229 . 2018-01-23 . Wilson . Scott . Lorway . Norah . Coull . Rosalyn . Vasilakos . Konstantinos . Moyers . Tim . Computer Music Journal . 38 . 54–64 . 13233271 .
  13. Web site: Inventionen Festival 2010 . 2018-01-23 .
  14. Web site: INVENTIONEN VII: 30 jahre inventionen 1982 - 2012 . 2018-01-23 .
  15. Web site: Flame . 2018-01-23 .
  16. Web site: Biography. Sergio Luque. 23 January 2018.
  17. Web site: N CONVERSATION: NORAH LORWAY ON LIVE CODING AND ALGORAVES. Medium. 7 December 2017 . 23 January 2018.
  18. Web site: About. Richard Bullen. 23 January 2018.
  19. Web site: Shelly Knotts . 2018-01-23 .
  20. Web site: Biography. Sam Pluta. 23 January 2018.

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