Lejaren A. Hiller

Sound recordings

• AGP119: Lejaren Hiller

Publications

• "Abstracts: Some Structural Principles of Computer Music", Journal of the American Musicological Society 9:3 (1956), pp 247-248.
• with Leonard Isaacson, "Musical Composition with a High-Speed Digital Computer", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 6:3 (1958), pp 154-160.
• with Leonard M. Isaacson, Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959, 197 pp, IA.
• "Programming a Computer for Music Composition", in Computer Applications in Music, ed. G. Lefkoff, Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1967, pp 65-88.
• "Some Compositional Techniques Involving the Use of Computers", in Music by Computers, eds. H. von Foerster and J. W. Beauchamp, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1969, pp 71-83.
• "Music Composed with Computers: An Historical Survey", in The Computer and Music, ed. H.B. Lincoln, Cornell University Press, pp 42-96, 1970.
• "Stochastic Generation of Note Parameters for Music Composition", in International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, 1982, pp 623-651, PDF.

Literature

• Christian A. Wamser, Carl C. Wamser, "Lejaren A. Hiller: A Memorial Tribute to a Chemist-Composer", Journal of Chemical Education 73:7 (Jul 1996), pp 601-607, PDF.
• John Bewley (ed.), Lejaren A. Hiller: Computer Music Pioneer, 2004, PDF. Brochure.
• Preserving Lejaren A. Hiller's Flowcharts: A Case Study, 2007, PDF. Brochure.
• Christopher Ariza, "Two Pioneering Projects from the Early History of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition", Computer Music Journal 35:3 (2011), pp 40-56, PDF.

Links

• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-380-music-and-technology-algorithmic-and-generative-music-spring-2010/lecture-notes/MIT21M_380S10_lec09.pdf
• http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/file1TFll.pdf
• Hiller at Wikipedia