Simon Emmerson
Simon Emmerson is a British composer of electroacoustic music, born in Wolverhampton in 1950, who works mostly with live electronics. He has also written widely on the subject: he edited The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986) and wrote Living Electronic Music (2007). Emmerson founded the electroacoustic studio at City University, London, in 1975 and ran it until 2004, then became Professor of Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in Leicester, where he is now Emeritus Professor. His Time Past IV, for soprano and tape, won a first prize at the 1985 Bourges awards.
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 analyze fixed-media, mixed, and electroacoustic music written by the composers whose samples are included in the CD.