Title: The Contributions of Computer Music Pioneer Knut Wiggen
Abstract: Knut Wiggen (1927-2016) was active in Stockholm as director of the concert organization Fylkingen (1959-69) and as the founding director of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (1964-75). These positions gave him enormous influence in Swedish contemporary music at the time, but following his departure, the studio changed focus towards more conventional tape-based composition. Recent research has focused on the thoughts that guided his entire development of the hybrid studio and resulted in his radical composition software MusicBox. MusicBox has not previously been presented for the computer music community.
This article describes Wiggen’s achievements in an international perspective, and gives an overview of the composition method employed in MusicBox in one of his published musical studies. If this presentation helps in lifting Wiggen’s contributions from obscurity into the canon of early computer music pioneers, it has been successful.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-08-04
Language: en
Type: article
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