Origin Turkish Name Ilhan Mimaroglu Parents Mimar Kemaleddin | Occupation(s) Composer Role Musician Grandparents Ali Bey, Sadberk Hanim | |
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Genres Contemporary, Electronic Similar People Freddie Hubbard, Mimar Kemaleddin, Tod Dockstader, Bernardino Zapponi, Arif Mardin | ||
Ilhan mimaro lu wings of the delirious demon
İlhan Mimaroğlu ([ˈilhan mimaɾˈoːɫu], March 11, 1926 – July 17, 2012) was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore.
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- Ilhan mimaro lu wings of the delirious demon
- Ilhan mimaro lu to kill a sunrise 1974
- Magnetic Tape
- Acoustic plus Electronic Sounds Tape
- Songs
- References
During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky and on occasions worked with Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. His notable students included Ingram Marshall.
He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971. In the same year he collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus’ Changes One and Changes Two, and contributed to the soundtrack of Federico Fellini's Fellini Satyricon.
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971.
İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.
Ilhan mimaro lu to kill a sunrise 1974
Magnetic Tape
Most of these works utilize concrete sounds, but there are also occasional electronic elements.
Acoustic plus Electronic Sounds (Tape)
Songs
Threnody for Sharon Tate
This Is Combat - I Know
And Yet - There Could Be Love