Sever Tipei

Professor of Music
Manager Computer Music Project of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
Composition-Theory Division
School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

 
1995 ICMC - Banff, Canada
  • 2136 Music Building

  • 1114 West Nevada St. 
    Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA 

  • phone:
    • (217) 333-6689 office 
      (217) 333-3691 CMP 
      (217) 333-2620 School of Music

Sever Tipei was born in 1943 in Bucharest, Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1978. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan and in piano performance from the Bucharest Conservatory (now National University of Music in Bucharest). Sever Tipei has been teaching since 1978 at the University of Illinois School of Music where he manages the Computer Music Project . of the UIUC Experimental Music Studios . Sever Tipei was also a visiting scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory between 1993 and 2003. MP1, his program for computer-assisted composition in use between 1973 and 1998, was the first such program to be implemented on a supercomputer ( NCSA 's CRAY X-MP), in 1986. In collaboration with Hans Kaper, Senior Mathematician at Argonne, Tipei is developing an Environment for Music Composition (EMC), which includes software for composition, sound synthesis, automatic music notation, and visualization of music in a virtual environment. DISSCO,sourceFORGE.net is part of EMC and represents a unified approach to composition and sound synthesis. Tipei and Kaper are also pursuing the idea of sonification of complex scientific data.

Tipei regards the computer as a collaborator whose skills and abilities complement those of the human artist. He sees the composition of music both as an experimental and a speculative endeavor that delivers a particular world view.

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