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- Feb. 14, 1994: Died:Learen Hiller
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 14, 1994 Are Men Really That Bad?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 18
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- <p> DIED. LEJAREN HILLER, 69, pioneering composer of computer music;
- of Alzheimer's disease; in Buffalo, New York. While teaching
- chemistry at the University of Illinois in the mid-1950s, Hiller
- began exploring the musical possibilities of the university's
- computer. The result, in 1956, was the Illiac Suite for string
- quartet, the first major score generated by a computer. Among
- Hiller's many other works and collaborations: Computer Cantata
- for soprano, tape and ensemble; Machine Music for piano, percussion
- and tape; and HPSCHD for one to seven harpsichords and one to
- 51 tapes.
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