Bülent Arel
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Bülent Arel (23 April 1919 – 24 November 1990) was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.
He was born in
In 1959, the Rockefeller Foundation invited him to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. There he composed and recorded two of his best-known works, "Stereo Electronic Music No.1" and "Stereo Electronic Music No.2" In 1962, he worked with Edgard Varèse on the electronic sections of Varèse's Déserts.
He also designed and installed the electronic music laboratory at
In the course of his work, he invented the 'splicing tape dispenser', as well as other devices for tape handling. He was a pioneer of looping techniques.
His notable students include Daria Semegen, Conrad Cummings, Jing Jing Luo, Joël-François Durand, John Tabacco and Frederick Bianchi. See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Bülent Arel.
In later life Arel lived in East Setauket, New York. He died of multiple myeloma in neighboring Stony Brook.
References
- Obituary. The New York Times, November 28, 1990 (section D, p. 22).
- Gluck, Robert J. "The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers" in Computer Music Journal v. 31, no. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 20–38.