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	Lejaren Hiller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lejaren Hiller was born in New York City on February 23, 1924.
		Hiller received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton in 1947 at the age of 23, after receiving both a B.A. and a M.A. in chemistry from the same institution.
		Hiller became interested in the music of Ives, and later taught a course in Ives at the University of New York at Buffalo.
	ems.music.uiuc.edu /history/hiller.html (720 words)

	Lejaren A. Hiller Jr.(1924-1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After working for DuPont, and as a faculty member in the chemsitry departement at the University of Illinois, he decided to leave chemistry for music, as he felt that his music would not be taken seriously as long as he was not a "professional" musician.
		Hiller is primarily known for his work in computer-assisted composition.
		Hiller served as director of EMS until he left the University of Illinois in 1968 to accept a position at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	www-camil.music.uiuc.edu:16080 /projects/eam/hiller.html (500 words)

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		Hiller claims that he was not interested in the mathematical model of human musical cognition.
		Hiller claims that he was not interested in the aesthetic result of his "experiments," but if you read between his lines you can detect the clear disappointment he felt in not producing more human-sounding music (or, to put it another way, the ease with which listeners could tell that the music went nowhere).
		Unlike John Cage, Lejaren Hiller understood and respected the meaning of the term "experimental." Unlike John Cage, Hiller recognized that science demands hard numbers in order for an experiment to be meaningfully called an experiment.
	www.microtonal.freeservers.com /mclaren/post180.html (1219 words)

	Hiller: details
		The narrator of Hiller's melodrama speaks all these roles, donning different hats to differentiate them, while for each of the villainous English a motto (also drawn from Rogers' play) is displayed on a placard or flashed on a screen.
		This knuckle-busting, 23' piano suite is Hiller's "masterpiece" in the original sense of the term: the work by which an artist, demonstrating an original style and total command of craft, asserts the right to be considered the professional equal of those already established in the field.
		For Hiller, whose résumé in 1948 was entirely that of a chemist, this ancient ritual surely held more than usual importance, and perhaps that is why the resulting piece is a masterpiece in the ordinary sense as well.
	pw1.netcom.com /~kallisti/LAHblurbs.html (2126 words)

	Lejaren Hiller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lejaren (luh-JARE-en) Hiller has become legendary as the first person to compose music with a computer, but there is much more to him~~and to his music~~than that.
		Furthermore, a majority of Hiller's works after 1957, including many of his best, do not involve computers at all, but partake of all the musical currents of his day with an inclusiveness that sounds increasingly apt to contemporary ears.
		Hiller may be famous for his computer work, but he was also the foremost exponent of both sonata form and fugue in his generation.
	pw1.netcom.com /~kallisti/Hiller.html (416 words)

	JCE 1996 (73) 601 [Jul] Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr.: A Memorial Tribute to a Chemist-Composer
		Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr.: A Memorial Tribute to a Chemist-Composer
		Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) was trained in chemistry but maintained a lifelong love of music.
		Hiller remained a pioneer in the field of copmuter composition during his distinguished career at the University of Illinois and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	jchemed.chem.wisc.edu /Journal/issues/1996/jul/abs601.html (319 words)

	Lejaren A. Hiller Sr. SUTURES IN ANCIENT SURGERY
		Hiller Sr., Lejaren A. New York 1927-1939, 50 relief halftone photogravures.
		This collection of dramatic, complex, and compelling photographs depicting scenes of surgeons with patients from antiquity through the early 19th century was created by Lejaren A. Hiller.
		Hiller (1880-1969) was born in Milwaukee and began his career in photography in 1902.
	www.trocadero.com /MuseXX/items/495431/item495431store.html (337 words)

	Lejaren A. Hiller Sr. Tribute by Jeffrey Sward
		Lejaren A. Hiller Sr.(1880 - 1969) was a remarkable photographer known particularly for theatrically staged tableaus.
		Do not confuse Lejaren A. Hiller Sr., the photographer, with his son, Lejaren A. Hiller Jr., the composer.
		An atypical portrait by Lejaren A. Hiller Sr.
	www.jeffreysward.com /tributes/hiller.htm (246 words)

	Threads - A short history of computer aided composition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The composer is Lejaren Hiller, who had some help from his assistant Isaacson.
		Lejaren Hiller was the man who single-handedly advanced computer-aided composition into a real field of research and development.
		Suddenly, it was proven from Hiller's efforts that a computer could mimic any form of composition, be it cannon, rondo, minuet, or anything else.
	library.thinkquest.org /3343/web-docs/history.html (393 words)

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		Reporter Volume 25, No.15 February 3, 1994 Music pioneer Lejaren Hiller dies Lejaren A. Hiller, 69, pioneering theorist and composer of electronic and computer music and retired UB professor of music composition, died Jan.
		Hiller, who held the George K. Birge and Allithea Birge Cary Chair of Music from 1980 to his retirement in 1990, composed more than 70 works, including symphonies, chamber works, concertos, and incidental music for theater, film and television.
		Hiller was the author of three books, Experimental Music with Leonard Isaacson; Principles of Chemistry, with Rolfe H. Herber; and InformationsQtheorie und Musik, along with numerous articles on chemistry, music, computers, acoustics and electronics.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol25/vol25n15/10b.txt (908 words)

	2-Bohn abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hiller used both approaches to computer-assisted composition throughout his career, often within the same piece of music.
		The most prevalent technique utilized in Hiller's computer music is the application of stochastic distributions, also called Markov chains, transition tables, or controlled random walks.
		Hiller was first exposed to this approach in his chemistry research involving statistical computation of the dimensions of idealized polymer molecules in solution.
	chem.pdx.edu /~wamserc/Hiller/2Bohn.htm (182 words)

	EMF Institute: Illiac Suite
		In 1955, Lejaren Hiller, working with Leonard Isaacson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, began a series of experiments in computer-automated musical composition.
		Hiller commented: "I observed that if we could program a computer to simulate a 'walk' through, say, ordinary space, we could also simulate a 'walk' through a grid defined to represent musical elements such as pitch, rhythmic durations, and timbre choices..."
		The photo at the left shows Lejaren Hiller at the control console of the Experimental Music Studio in the 1960s.
	emfinstitute.emf.org /exhibits/illiacsuite.html (104 words)

	BMOP :: Lejaren Hiller
		Composer and computer music pioneer Lejaren Hiller passed away on January 26, in Buffalo after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease.
		Hiller, the son of a successful photographer (a graduate of the School of the Art Institute), grew up in New York and began studying piano and theory at an early age.
		As a child, he experimented with punching out patterns on piano rollsâ”an interest that was to remain with him throughout his career.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=252 (755 words)

	Music 7 Demo Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The second, computer-realized music, involves conversion into electronic sound of a score that may or may not have been composed with the aid of a computer." Hiller goes on to point out that by 1989 "Computer-assisted composition is difficult to define, difficult to limit, and difficult to systematize.
		Hiller describes his work as based on Monte Carlo, or Markov, processes similar to the ones used to statistically compute the dimensions of idealized polymer molecules in suspension
		Unlike Hiller, whose basic intention was to explore ways to allow a computer to compose music, Xenakis uses computers as a tool to work with the mathematical--in particular stochastic--ideas on which his music is based.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /dept.music/courses/7/demo.html (2578 words)

	Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios : University at Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1957, Hiller collaborated with Leonard Isaacson on the Illiac Suite, the first significant use of a computer in composition.
		Hiller was able to tap the power of the Illiac for the generation and selection of large quantities of random values in a fundamental type of stochastic modeling known as "the Monte Carlo Method."
		Lejaren Hiller's importance to the field of computer music cannot be overemphasized.
	www.music.buffalo.edu /hiller/history.shtml (191 words)

	Lejaren Hiller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The musical establishment was so hostile to this interloper scientist that both Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians refused to include him until shortly before his death.
		A majority of Hiller's works after 1957, do not involve computers at all, but might include statistical music, indeterminacy, serialism, Brahmsian traditionalism, jazz, performance art, folksong and counterpoint mixed together.
		He also collaborated with John Cage for HPSCHD and taught James Tenney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lejaren_Hiller (323 words)

	The Illiac I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The history of Computer Music at the University of Illinois begins in 1955, with Lejaren Hiller and a machine called the ILLIAC I. Hiller, with help from Leonard Isaacson, used this machine to compose the "Illiac Suite," which was one of the first pieces of music to be written with the aid of a computer.
		The history of the ILLIAC I goes back to January 1948, when the University of Illinois Board of trustees appropriated $150,000 for the construction of a computer by New York's Reeves instrument Company.
		The experimental spirit, which is allied with the concept of "cutting edge" technology, contiues to set the tone for much of the work done in computer music at the University of Illinois.
	ems.music.uiuc.edu /history/illiac.html (1116 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lejaren Hiller": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mathews: No. There were some people, Lejaren Hiller in particular, who had done a bit with com- posing music-compositional algorithms-but as far as I know there were no...
		Perhaps the most extensive use of such scales is in John Cage and Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD,...
		In 1955, Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) and Leonard Isaacson co-composed the ILLIAC Suite for String Quartet (his fourth string quartet) using the ILLIAC I computer...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lejaren-Hiller (463 words)

	Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios : University at Buffalo
		The facilities of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios include a number of interconnected studios and labs, with equipment ranging from entry-level hardware and software for beginning students to state-of-the-art recording, sound-production, and compositional equipment.
		Slee 110 : Primary Studio Equipped with cutting-edge hardware and software for real-time interactive computer music, electroacoustic works, algorithmic composition, and editing; the main studio has a nine speaker (plus subwoofer) Genelec system that can quickly be reconfigured via software (5:1, octaphonic, quadraphonic, etc.).
		For details and specifications of hardware and software for each of these facilities, see the equipment listings.
	www.music.buffalo.edu /hiller/facilities.shtml (253 words)

	Re: Lejaren Hiller has died (Pierre Divenyi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Subject: Re: Lejaren Hiller has died From: Pierre Divenyi Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:21:40 PST
		I met Jerry Hiller in 1974, having read his pioneering book on computer composition (there was no computer synthesis yet, at that time).
		His broad knowledge of just about everything (he started out as a chemist), his enthusasm, and his humor have made me an instant fan of his.
	www.auditory.org /postings/1994/14.html (203 words)

	Lejaren Hiller has died (David Wessel ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Subject: Lejaren Hiller has died From: David Wessel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 12:26:08 PST
		Computer music pioneer Lajaren Hiller passed away yesterday afternoon, 26 January 1994.
		There will not be a funeral but a memorial concert is being planned in Buffalo.
	www.auditory.org /postings/1994/12.html (43 words)

	Lejaren a. Hiller Coming Events (1914) > Rare Vtg LIFE Dance > FreeS&H>US&Canada - lah-14
		Hiller Coming Events (1914) > Rare Vtg LIFE Dance > FreeS&H>US&Canada
		(1880 - 1969), the photographer, with his son, Lejaren A. Hiller Jr., the composer/chemist (1924-94).
		Before he achieved worldwide fame with a camera, Hiller Sr.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/dacker/item/lah-14 (200 words)

	James Tenney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, Lejaren Hiller, John Cage, Harry Partch, and Edgard Varèse.
		He also studied information theory under Lejaren Hiller, and composed stochastic early computer music before turning almost completely to writing for instruments with the occasional tape delay, often using just intonation and alternative tunings.
		Tenney's notable students include John Luther Adams, Larry Polansky, Peter Garland, and Raven Chacon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Tenney (527 words)

	Hiller Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cover article on Hiller from the Journal of Chemical Education, July 1996
		Hiller Archives at the State University of New York at Buffalo
		These pages will be maintained by Carl Wamser.
	chem.pdx.edu /~wamserc/Hiller/default.htm (234 words)

	Lejaren Hiller MP3 Downloads - Lejaren Hiller Music Downloads - Lejaren Hiller Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lejaren Hiller MP3 Downloads - Lejaren Hiller Music Downloads - Lejaren Hiller Music Videos
		Studied with Harvey Officer, oboe with Joseph Marx, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton, composition with Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions.
		Portions of content provided by All Music Guide ©2007 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
	www.mp3.com /lejaren-hiller/artists/2498/summary.html (98 words)

	Textbooks by Lejaren Arthur Hiller - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Textbooks by Lejaren Arthur Hiller - Direct Textbook
		Report on contemporary experimental music, 1961 by Lejaren Arthur Hiller
		Computer cantata: A study in composition using the University of Illinois IBM 7090 and CSX-1 electronic digital computers (Technical report) by Lejaren Arthur Hiller
	www.directtextbook.com /author/lejaren-arthur-hiller/2 (350 words)

	EMF Media
		Joel Chadabe's interactive instrument sends transformed echoes in multiple images around the room...
		John Cage and Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD is arguably the wildest composition of the 20th century, big, brash, exuberant, raucous...
		Early electronic works, including Tautologos, Tete et queue du dragon, Visages V, Und so weiter...
	www.emfmedia.org (74 words)

	George Eastman House Brigman, Hiller, Mortensen, Scott & Series
		George Eastman House Brigman, Hiller, Mortensen, Scott & Series
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