James Tenney
Born: 10th August 1934, Silver City, New Mexico, U.S.A
Died: 24th August 2006, Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, United States
Nationality: American
James Tenney was an American composer, music theorist, and pianist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, and microtonal tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception.
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