Denis Smalley
Denis Arthur Smalley ( born May 16, 1946 in Nelson) is a New Zealand organist, composer ( Electroacoustic Music ) and music theorist. He expanded the concept of acousmatic of Pierre Schaeffer.
Life
Smalley attended as a student, the Nelson College. From 1964 he studied at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where he graduated in 1966 with the organ Diploma and Bachelor of Music, and until 1967 composition at Victoria University of Wellington. As a result, he performed works by Olivier Messiaen and György Ligeti to New Zealand premiere. In 1960 he was a music teacher at Wellington College. With a scholarship, he went to Paris in 1971 and studied composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and electroacoustic composition ( one of the first students) with Guy Reibel and François Bayle at the Groupe de recherches musicales ( GRM). After he received his PhD Trevor Wishart at the University of York.
He taught from 1976 to 1994 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and was head of the Electroacoustic Music Studio. Since 1994 he has been Professor and Head of the Music Faculty of the City University London. In 1976 he developed the first " sound diffusion system " in England. Smalley sat very much for the dissemination of multi-channel sound projections and worked with the composer Tim Souster, John Tilbury, Sarah Walker and John Wallace. He was, inter alia, responsible for sound production at the London Electric Weekend on the South Bank ( 1987) and the BBC Proms (1989).
Smalley dealt with musicological issues and led in 1986 the term " Spektromorphologie " (English: Spectromorphology ) that examines the auditory perception of Electroacoustic Music. His work Spectromorphology: Explaining sound - shapes was also translated into French and Italian. He has expanded the concept of musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer. With Lelio Camilleri, he published the first English-language analysis of Electroacoustic Music. The term electroacoustic music has been recorded on Simon Emmersons and his initiative in the renowned music encyclopedia New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
His music has been played all over the world and recorded on numerous CDs.
Prizes and awards
- Fylkingen Prize (1975 )
- Bourges Electroacoustic Awards (1977, 1983, 1992)
- Price of ICEM (1983 )
- Newcomp (1984 )
- Prix Ars Electronica (1988 )