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University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios

Founded 1958 by Lejaren Hiller, arguably the first electronic/computer music studio in the Western Hemisphere.

Charles Hamm, Lejaren Hiller, Salvatore Martirano, Herbert Brün, and Kenneth Gaburo in the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, 1960s
Charles Hamm, Lejaren Hiller, Salvatore Martirano, Herbert Brün, and Kenneth Gaburo (left to right) in the Experimental Music Studios.Source
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Founded in 1958 by Lejaren Hiller at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Experimental Music Studios were arguably the first electronic/computer music studio in the Western Hemisphere. Hiller had already used the university’s ILLIAC I computer with Leonard Isaacson to generate the Illiac Suite for string quartet (1957) — generally considered the first score composed by computer — before the Studios formalized that research.