Gerald Bennett
Gerald Bennett is an American composer, born in New Jersey in 1942, who has worked mainly in Switzerland. He studied music at Harvard, where he took composition with Robert Moevs and attended Pierre Boulez's classes, and continued his studies at the Basel Conservatory. Bennett writes instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music, and he is known for his part in the founding years of IRCAM in Paris. Boulez asked Bennett to help build IRCAM, and from 1976 he headed the institute's Diagonal department.
Jean-Claude Risset, Horacio Vaggione, Eduardo Polonio, Barry Truax, Christian Clozier, Charles Dodge, Sten Hanson, Leo Küpper, Clarence Barlow, Gerald Bennett, Josep Manuel Berenguer, Francisco Kröpfl, Simon Emmerson, Max Mathews, Michael Obst, Nicola Sani
Analyse en musique electroacoustique / Analysis in electroacoustic music volume II (book+CD)Very hard-to-find 1997 bi-lingual book with CD published by the Académie internationale de musique électroacoustique de Bourges / Éditions Mnémosyne, a collection of academic papers, methodological discussions and case studies exploring how to analyz…