
	The role of the omnipresent computer in the world of music today can be traced back to its beginnings of 50 years ago, when Lejaren Hiller in collaboration with Leonard Isaacson at the University of Illinois programmed a computer for the first time in order to compose a piece of music, the "Illiac Suite" for string quartet. It was also 50 years ago when in the Bell Company's laboratories Max Mathews generated the first synthetic sounds using digital techniques. Contemporary Music, the environment fostering these first attempts, has been strongly influenced in compositional thinking by the computer in the course of the subsequent half-century. To mark the occasion, GIMIK is organising this year an extended event within its annual COMPUTING MUSIC series.

COMPUTING MUSIC IV


	Commissioned works composed especially for this event by present-day composers of Computer Music will be performed in perspective alongside historically recognised early works of the genre. Apart from concerts of string quartet music, compositions for music machines and electroacoustic works, the programme will also present sound installations and round table discussions. COMPUTING MUSIC IV is dedicated to the memory of James Tenney, celebrated composer and pioneer of Computer Music, who died very recently and tragically cannot be as planned among the guests present.