Robert Taylor (born 1931) is an American composer. For several years, his output has comprised works perhaps best characterized as avant-garde computer-music. Previously, he had composed music for an array of acoustic media, including solo voice, string quartet, string orchestra, voice and piano-or-computer, double-orchestra and soprano, mixed chorus, and various chamber ensembles. His works have been performed internationally, in concert and on ...
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Robert Taylor (born 1931) is an American composer. For several years, his output has comprised works perhaps best characterized as avant-garde computer-music. Previously, he had composed music for an array of acoustic media, including solo voice, string quartet, string orchestra, voice and piano-or-computer, double-orchestra and soprano, mixed chorus, and various chamber ensembles. His works have been performed internationally, in concert and on radio broadcasts. Before turning to composition, from a very young age, he played French horn in a variety of orchestras and chamber ensembles. Private study in composition was with Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt.
The computer has played a pivotal role in Taylor's work. On one hand, as noted below, it has enabled in-depth studies (since 1968) of musical systems and the elaboration of systematic results which would have been impossible by other means. Equally important, the computer has acted both as a generator of sound...
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