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| 1995 ICMC - Banff, Canada |
- Mailng address:
- email:
- Music Building
1114 West Nevada St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
- s-tipei@illinois.edu
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1114 West Nevada St. Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Sever Tipei was born in Bucharest, Romania, immigrated to the
United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1978. He holds degrees
in composition from the University of Michigan and in piano performance
from the Bucharest Conservatory (now National University of Music at
Bucharest). Sever Tipei taught between 1978 and 2021
at the
University of Illinois
School of Music
He continues to teach at the
School of Information Sciences (Ischool) where he directs the
Computer Music Project ;
he is also a NCSA Center Affiliate.
Tipei's program for computer-assisted composition MP1,
in use between 1973 and 1998, was the first such program to be
implemented on a supercomputer
( NCSA 's CRAY X-MP), in 1986.
Between 1994 and 2003
Sever Tipei also had a Faculty Appointment (Visiting Scientist) at the
Argonne National Laboratory.
In collaboration with Hans
Kaper, Senior Mathematician (now retired), at Argonne Tipei worked on
developing an
Environment for Music Composition (EMC), that included software for
composition, sound synthesis, automatic music notation, and visualization
of music in a virtual environment. Tipei and Kaper have also pursued the
sonification of complex scientific data. A more recent project,
DISSCO,
a Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition, available on
Github.com represents a
unified approach to composition and sound synthesis.
Tipei regards the computer as a collaborator whose skills and abilities
complement those of the human artist. He sees the composition of music
both as an experimental and a speculative endeavor that delivers a particular
world view.
To find out more about Sever Tipei use one of the following links: