His works have been selected at numerous international competitions such as the Gaudeamus Competition of composition, the ISCM World Music Days, the International Computer Music Conference, etc. He also won the premier prizes at the 13th and 17th International Electroacoustic Music Competition Bourges in France, the Irino Composition Prize in Japan, and 1st prize at the Newcomp International Computer Music Competition in U.S.A. In 1991 he received the ICMA Commission Award.
Currently he is teaching computer music at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.
He has followed composition and analysis seminars with various composers including: Boulez, Donatoni, K.Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis, and has written for all major ensemble formations. His works have received various international composition prizes and have been premiered at major festivals in North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. His music is recorded by ADDA, Apollon, CBS-Sony, Centaur, SEAMUS, MIT Press, Harmonia Mundi, and Neuma.
His piece "stream" was chosen in ICMF (International Computer Music Festival) in 1998.
Takayuki RAI was born in Tokyo in 1954. He studied composition with Yoshiro Irino and Helmut Lachenmann, and computer music with Paul Berg at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He had been working at the Institute of Sonology as a guest composer between 1982 and 1990.
Cort Lippe (1953~ )
Cort Lippe studied composition with Larry Austin in the USA. He spent a year in Florence, Italy, studying Renaissance music and three years in Utrecht, The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie working with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized music. He lived eleven years in Paris, where he worked three years at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), directed by I. Xenakis, while following Xenakis' course on formalized music at the University of Paris, and eight years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by P. Boulez, where he developed real-time musical applications and gave courses on new technology in composition. Presently, he teaches composition and directs the Hiller Computer Music Studios at the Univerty at Buffalo-SUNY.
Shintaro Imai (1974~ )
Shintaro Imai, was born in Nagano, Japan in 1974. He is studying computer music with Takayuki Rai and Erik Ona at the Sonology Department, post graduate course of Kunitachi College of Music. His works have been performed at the Louisiana Museum, Denmark in 1995, "U.S.A./Japan InterCollege Computer Music Concert" in Tokyo in 1997, and so on. In 1998 He was invited to the "June in Buffalo" Festival in U.S.A., and presented his work. One of his works was selected at "5th Computer Music Festival in Seoul" in Korea in 1998.
Eiji Murata (1974~ )
Eiji Murata was born in 1974 in Japan. He studied computer music with Takayuki Rai and Erik Ona at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi Collage of Music. At present, he is working at YAMAHA corporation in electronic musical instruments division.
Shu Matsuda (1974~ )
Shu Matsuda (b. 1974 Japan). Currently he is a student of Takayuki Rai and Erik Ona at the Sonology Department, master course of Kunitachi College of Music, and studying computer music and computer programming. One software, he has developed for the interactive computer music system, was selected and presented in the ICMC '95 at Banff, Canada. His works have been performed at the Louisiana Museum, Denmark in 1995, "U.S.A./Japan InterCollege Computer Music Concert" in Tokyo in 1997, and so on. In 1998 He was invited to the "June in Buffalo" Festival in U.S.A., and presented his work.
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