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Scott Wilson (composer)

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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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  1. ^ "Canadian Music Centre Page". Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  2. ^ "About |". scottwilson.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  3. ^ "About". BEAST. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Scott Wilson". Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  5. ^ "Loudspeaker Orchestras". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  6. ^ Wilson, Scott; Collins, Nick; Cottle, David, eds. (2011). The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262232692.
  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. doi:10.1017/S1355771812000271. S2CID 61688112. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  8. ^ Phillips, Dave (2011-08-29). "The SuperCollider Book: A Review". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  9. ^ Collins, Nick; Schedel, Margaret; Wilson, Scott (2013). Electronic Music. Cambridge Introductions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511820540. ISBN 9780511820540. OCLC 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. doi:10.1017/S1355771815000151. S2CID 61414523. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  11. ^ Wilson, Scott; Harrison, Jonty (2010). "Rethinking the BEAST: Recent developments in multichannel composition at Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre". Organised Sound. 15 (3): 239–250. doi:10.1017/S1355771810000312. S2CID 62738199. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  12. ^ Wilson, Scott; Lorway, Norah; Coull, Rosalyn; Vasilakos, Konstantinos; Moyers, Tim (2014). "Free as in BEER: Some Explorations into Structured Improvisation Using Networked Live-Coding Systems". Computer Music Journal. 38: 54–64. doi:10.1162/COMJ_a_00229. S2CID 13233271. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  13. ^ "Inventionen Festival 2010". Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  14. ^ "INVENTIONEN VII: 30 jahre inventionen 1982 - 2012". Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  15. ^ "Flame". Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  16. ^ "Biography". Sergio Luque. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  17. ^ "N CONVERSATION: NORAH LORWAY ON LIVE CODING AND ALGORAVES". Medium. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  18. ^ "About". Richard Bullen. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  19. ^ "Shelly Knotts". Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  20. ^ "Biography". Sam Pluta. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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