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Lejaren Hiller (23 Feb 1924 - 26 Jan 1994)

Male Person - United States American composer

Releases (2)

Official

Album

  1. Avalanche / Nightmare Music / Suite for Two Pianos and Tape / Computer Music for Tape and Percussion 1970
  2. Computer Music Retrospective 1989

Relationships (2)

Students

  1. Bernadette Speach
  2. Charles Ames

Recordings by (12)

  1. Estudio n° 7 5:30 (Oct 1966)
  2. Vocalise ?:?? (1966)
  3. Nightmare Music, for tape alone (from "The Time of the Heathen") 9:51 (1970)
  4. Expo '85 for Multiple Synthesizers: I. Circus Piece - A Cadential Process 4:11 (1989)
  5. Mix or Match / Cleaning Up the Mess 5:14 (01 Aug 1992)
  6. Algorithms I, Version I: 1. The Decay of Information 2:04 (18 Aug 2023)
  7. Algorithms I, Version I: 2. Icosahedron 3:07 (18 Aug 2023)
  8. Algorithms I, Version I: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints 4:12 (18 Aug 2023)
  9. Algorithms I, Version IV: 1. The Decays of Information 2:06 (18 Aug 2023)
  10. Algorithms I, Version IV: 2. Icosahedron 3:09 (18 Aug 2023)
  11. Algorithms I, Version IV: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints 4:17 (18 Aug 2023)
  12. Cosahedron 3:06 (2023)

On Recordings (6)

Conducted

  1. Algorithms I, Version IV: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints 4:17 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)
  2. Algorithms I, Version I: 1. The Decay of Information 2:04 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)
  3. Algorithms I, Version IV: 1. The Decays of Information 2:06 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)
  4. Algorithms I, Version I: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints 4:12 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)
  5. Algorithms I, Version I: 2. Icosahedron 3:07 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)
  6. Algorithms I, Version IV: 2. Icosahedron 3:09 Lejaren Hiller (18 Aug 2023)

Credited as (10)

  1. Lejaren Hiller
  2. John Cage & Lejaren Arthur Hiller
  3. John Cage & Lejaren Hiller, Ben Johnston
  4. Cage, Hiller
  5. John Cage, Lejaren Hiller
  6. Lejaren Hiller, Charles Ames
  7. Lejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson
  8. Lejaren Hiller, G. Allan O'Connor
  9. Bernd Asmus, Lejaren Hiller, Giuseppe Gavazza, Luigi Nono; Sven Thomas Kiebler
  10. Lejaren A. Hiller

Works (37)

Composed

  1. String Quartet no. 4 "Illiac Suite": II. Experiment Two. Adagio, ma non troppo lento (1957)
  2. String Quartet no. 4 "Illiac Suite": III. Experiment Three. Allegro con brio (1957)
  3. String Quartet no. 4 "Illiac Suite": IV. Experiment Four. Tanto presto che possible (1957)
  4. String Quartet no. 4 "Illiac Suite" (1957)
  5. String Quartet no. 4 "Illiac Suite": I. Experiment One. Presto - Andante - Allegro (1957)
  6. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones) (1962)
  7. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): III. Theme II (1962)
  8. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): IV. Variations (1962)
  9. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): VII. Theme IV (1962)
  10. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): V. Theme III (1962)
  11. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): VI. Variations (1962)
  12. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): I.Theme I (1962)
  13. String Quartet no. 5 (In Quarter-Tones): II. Variations (1962)
  14. HPSCHD (1967 - 1969)
  15. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape (1968)
  16. An Avalanche (1968)
  17. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: I. Decisively (1968)
  18. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: II. Briskly (1968)
  19. Computer Music for Percussion and Tape: III. Lyrically (1968)
  20. An Avalanche: I. Getting Ready for It (1968)
  21. An Avalanche: II. The Avalanche (1968)
  22. An Avalanche: III. Cleaning up the Mess (1968)
  23. Persiflage for Flute, Oboe & Percussion (1977)
  24. Quadrilateral (1981)
  25. Expo '85 for Multiple Synthesizers (1985)
  26. Expo '85 for Multiple Synthesizers: I. Circus Piece - A Cadential Process (1985)
  27. Expo '85 for Multiple Synthesizers: IV. Mix or Match - A Tune Generating Process (1985)
  28. Algorithms I, Version I: 1. The Decay of Information
  29. Algorithms I, Version I: 2. Icosahedron
  30. Algorithms I, Version I: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints
  31. Algorithms I, Version IV: 1. The Decays of Information
  32. Algorithms I, Version IV: 2. Icosahedron
  33. Algorithms I, Version IV: 3. The Incorporation of Constraints
  34. Vocalise
  35. Nightmare Music
  36. Suite for Two Pianos and Tape
  37. Estudio n° 7

Links (6)

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/lejaren-hiller
  2. http://brahms.ircam.fr/lejaren-hiller

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/600884

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/34643418

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q899159

Biographies

  1. http://www.musicainformatica.org/topics/lejaren-hiller.php