Lejaren Hiller
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About Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Hiller (b. February 23, 1924, New York City, d. January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) was an American composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. This was his fourth string quartet. He originally trained as a chemist, and worked as a research chemist for DuPont in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1947 to 1952.
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Machine Music
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An Apotheosis of Archaeopteryx
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Computer Cantata: Prolog to Strophe I - Strophe I
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Computer Cantata: Prolog To Strophe I; Strophe I
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Illiac Suite for String Quartet
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Computer Cantata: Prolog to Strophe III - Strophe III
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Computer Cantata: Strophe IV - Epilog to Strophe IV
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Circus Piece
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Toy Harmonium
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Transition
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Quartet No. 4 for strings 'Illiac Suite' (1957) - Experiment One
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Quartet No. 4 for strings 'Illiac Suite' (1957) - Experiment Three
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Quartet No. 4 for strings 'Illiac Suite' (1957) - Experiment Two
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Computer Cantata: Prolog to Strophe II - Strophe II
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Algorithms I (Version I): I. The Decay of Information
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968) - Decisively
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Computer Cantata: Prolog To Strophe II; Strophe II
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985) - Mix or Match
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985): Circus Piece - A Cadential Process
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An Avalanche (1968) - The Avalanche
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968) - Briskly
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968) - Lyrically
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Computer Cantata: Strophe IV; Epilogue To Strophe IV
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985): Toy Harmonium - A Statistical Process
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985): Transitions - A Hierarchical Process
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Metaphors
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Quartet No. 4 for strings 'Illiac Suite' (1957) - Experiment Four
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An Avalanche (1968) - Getting Ready For It
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An Avalanche (1968) - Cleaning up the Mess
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Quartet No. 6 For Strings: Arrabiato
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Computer Cantata: Strophe V - Epilog to Strophe V
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Algorithms I (Version I): II. Icosahedron
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Quartet No. 4 for strings "Illac Suite" (1957): Experiment One
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Nightmare Music (from 'Time of the Heathen'), for Magnetic Tape (1961)
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Computer Cantata: Prolog To Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilogue To Strophe III
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An Avalanche, for Pitchman, Prima-Donna, Player Piano, Perc. & Tape (1968)
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968): Brisly
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Quartet No. 4 for strings "Illac Suite" (1957): Experiment Three
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968): Decisively
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Computer Music for percussion and tape (1968): Lyrically
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Expo '85 for multiple synthesizers (1985): Mix or match - A Tune Generating Process (5 examples)
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Algorithms I, Version I
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Quartet No. 4 for strings "Illac Suite" (1957): Experiment Two
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Algorithms I (Version I): III. The Incorporation of Constraints
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Quartet No. 4 "Illiac Suite": Experiment Four (Tanto Presto Che Possibile)
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Quartet No. 6 For Strings: Vivace
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Persiflage for flute, oboe and percussion (1977): I. Allegro
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Quartet No. 4 for strings "Illac Suite" (1957): Experiment Four
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Algorithms I (Version IV): I. The Decay of Information
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Algorithms I (Version IV): III. The Incorporation of Constraints
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