Name Denis Smalley | Role Composer | |
Education University of Canterbury, Conservatoire de Paris Awards Prix Ars Electronica - Digital Musics Similar People Jonty Harrison, Simon Emmerson, Francis Dhomont, Trevor Wishart, Pierre Schaeffer | ||
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Denis Arthur Smalley (born 1946 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a composer of electroacoustic music, with a special interest in acousmatic music.
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Biography
Denis Smalley studied at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University in his native New Zealand, and later at the Paris Conservatoire with Olivier Messiaen, with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), and at the University of York.
He initially composed onto tape, but as early as the 1980s realised his works using computer software. His composition Pentes (1974) is regarded as one of the classics of electroacoustic music. Source sounds for his works may come from the environment—and are often the starting point for his pieces—but he may also develop highly sophisticated timbres from scratch using computer software. He describes his approach as "spectromorphological", featuring the development of sounds in time.
A lecturer at the University of East Anglia, England, from 1976 to 1994, he has been professor of music at City University, London since 1994.
His music has been performed around the world and most of his major works appear on commercially released CDs.