A. Wayne Slawson (December29, 1932August6, 2022) was a composer and professor. He was best known for Wishful Thinking About Winter, composed at MIT in 1967, a computer-generated setting of a haiku that uses a wide range of spectral glide rates.
He died in 2022, aged 89.
Bibliography
- "A Speech-Orientated Synthesizer for Computer Music"
- "Sound, Electronics, and Hearing", The Development and Practice of Electronic Music. Jon H. Appleton and Ronald Perera, eds. .
Discography
- Wishful Thinking About Winter. Decca DL 710180.
Sources
Further reading
- Routledge (2009). "Slawson, A. Wayne", International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009, p. 765. .