Re: [microsound] "Academic" computer music?

[Massimiliano Viel <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would call 'academic composer' a composer who is recognized in a 
tradition. In this respect Xenakis, as well as Ligeti Stockhausen, 
Boulez, Cage, Berio, Carter and so on are all recognized milestones 
in the history of contemporary music, as the music of the 20th 
century that consider itself as the continuation of the millenary 
european music tradition.

I would consider "computer music" as opposed to "tape music" (and in 
tape music we can found concrete music as opposed to electronic 
music), that is the music realized in laboratories (like the Bell 
Telephone one) since about 1950 up to the invention of MIDI,when the 
computer as musical device became accesible to the large public.
In this respect Xenakis, Risset, Chowning realized computer music... 
Varese, Stockhausen, Cage realized tape music.

massimiliano viel

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