Wayne Slawson Explained

A. Wayne Slawson (born December 29, 1932) is a composer and professor. Best known for Wishful Thinking About Winter, composed at MIT in 1967,^[1] a computer-generated setting of a haiku that uses a wide range of spectral glide rates.^[2]

Bibliography

• "A Speech-Orientated Synthesizer for Computer Music"
• "Sound, Electronics, and Hearing", The Development and Practice of Electronic Music. Jon H. Appleton and Ronald Perera, eds. .

Discography

• Wishful Thinking About Winter. Decca DL 710180.

Further reading

• Routledge (2009). "Slawson, A. Wayne", International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009, p. 765. .

Notes and References

1. Schrader, Barry (1982). Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music, p.159. .
2. Erickson, Robert (1975). Sound Structure in Music, p.73. .