Michael Hamman
Composer, theorist, writer, software design engineer.
Composes works for instruments, tape, and computer; constructs and directs software development projects. Music performed in concerts and festivals throughout Europe, North America, and in Asia. Recordings on Neuma and Capstone labels
. Theoretical writings appear in Journal of New Music Research, Interface, Sonus, The Music of Morton Feldman, Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons, and in numerous other publications and proceedings. Lectures and presentations throughout North America and Europe. Research in computational sound synthesis and composition, composition theory, and computer interfaces for music composition. He lives in Urbana, Illinois where he composes and writes. Research Scientist at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Regarding composition, Hamman writes:
"For me, the material nature of music explicitly and unmistakably reflects the technical means by which it is produced--including its 'mistakes' and 'glitches.' Material need not slavishly follow technique's veridical successes--it can include in its own unfolding a critical assessment of its technique. By such an assessment, music sheds its mimetic history and becomes explicitly artificial--reflective of the utter particularity of its thought."
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