Scott Wilson (composer)

{{short description|Canadian composer (born 1969)}}

Scott Wilson (born November 26, 1969, in Vancouver) is a Canadian composer.{{cite web|url=http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37755/biography|title=Canadian Music Centre Page|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2008-08-20}} He studied music and composition in Canada, the U.S., and Germany, and his teachers include Barry Truax, Wolfgang Rihm, Christos Hatzis, Gary Kulesha, Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Owen Underhill, Neely Bruce and David Gordon Duke.{{Cite web|url=http://scottwilson.ca/about/|title=About {{!}}|website=scottwilson.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2018-07-30}} Since 2004 he has lived in Birmingham, UK, where he is Reader in Electronic Music and Director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre{{cite web|title=About|url=http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/about/the-team/|website=BEAST|access-date=23 January 2018}} and the Electroacoustic Studios at the University of Birmingham.{{cite web |title=Scott Wilson |url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/music/wilson-scott.aspx |access-date=2008-08-20 }}

His works include pieces both for instrumental and electroacoustic forces. He is the Director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, for which he has developed custom software,{{cite web|title=Loudspeaker Orchestras|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/loudspeaker-orchestras|website=Sound On Sound|access-date=23 January 2018}} and an active developer of the SuperCollider computer music language. He was the lead editor of The SuperCollider Book{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilson |editor1-first=Scott |editor2-last=Collins |editor2-first=Nick |editor3-last=Cottle |editor3-first=David |title=The SuperCollider Book |year=2011 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262232692 |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/supercollider-book |location=Cambridge MA }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Anderson J |date=2013 |title=Richard Boulanger and Victor Lazzarini, eds, The Audio Programming Book. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-262-01446-5 Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins, eds, The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-262-23269-2. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/richard-boulanger-and-victor-lazzarini-eds-the-audio-programming-book-cambridge-ma-the-mit-press-2010-isbn-9780262014465-scott-wilson-david-cottle-and-nick-collins-eds-the-supercollider-book-cambridge-ma-the-mit-press-2011-isbn-9780262232692/36BFC709C5F16B722D62F05DDFC73AE7 |journal=Organised Sound |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=92–6 |doi=10.1017/S1355771812000271 |s2cid=61688112 |access-date=2018-01-23 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Dave |date=2011-08-29 |title=The SuperCollider Book: A Review |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/supercollider-book-review |journal=Linux Journal |access-date=2018-01-23 }} published by MIT Press, was a co-author of Electronic Music {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Nick |last2=Schedel |first2=Margaret |last3=Wilson |first3=Scott |title=Electronic Music |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/822560190 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780511820540 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511820540 |series=Cambridge Introductions to Music |year=2013 |oclc=822560190 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Adkins M |date=2015 |title=Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel and Scott Wilson, Cambridge Introductions to Music: Electronic Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 981107648173 (paperback); 9781107010923 (hardback) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/nick-collins-margaret-schedel-and-scott-wilson-cambridge-introductions-to-music-electronic-music-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-2013-isbn-981107648173-paperback-9781107010923-hardback/F20BBE8046A68E3469924F803A2D1EC2 |journal=Organised Sound |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=273–75 |doi=10.1017/S1355771815000151 |s2cid=61414523 |access-date=2018-01-23 |url-access=subscription }} with Nick Collins (composer) and Margaret Schedel published by Cambridge University Press, and has published in journals including Organised Sound{{cite journal |title=Rethinking the BEAST: Recent developments in multichannel composition at Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre |year=2010 |doi=10.1017/S1355771810000312 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/rethinking-the-beast-recent-developments-in-multichannel-composition-at-birmingham-electroacoustic-sound-theatre/7FF949D306BC8E2BC1D97958B79EACD3 |access-date=2018-01-23 |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |last2=Harrison |first2=Jonty |journal=Organised Sound |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=239–250 |s2cid=62738199 }} and the Computer Music Journal.{{cite journal |title=Free as in BEER: Some Explorations into Structured Improvisation Using Networked Live-Coding Systems |year=2014 |doi=10.1162/COMJ_a_00229 |url=https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COMJ_a_00229 |access-date=2018-01-23 |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |last2=Lorway |first2=Norah |last3=Coull |first3=Rosalyn |last4=Vasilakos |first4=Konstantinos |last5=Moyers |first5=Tim |journal=Computer Music Journal |volume=38 |pages=54–64 |s2cid=13233271 }}

His music has been performed internationally, with performances at the Huddersfield Festival, the Mouvement Festival, the Trash Festival, Open Ears, the Inventionen Festival{{cite web |title=Inventionen Festival 2010 |url=http://www.inventionen.de/Inventionen_10/index.html |access-date=2018-01-23 }} in Berlin, and the Cool Drummings Festival, and broadcast on CBC Radio 2, Radio France, Netherlands Concertzender, and BBC Radio 3. Works have been performed by Darragh Morgan, Esprit Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and others, and has been recorded on labels including Edition RZ{{cite web |title=INVENTIONEN VII: 30 jahre inventionen 1982 - 2012 |url=https://www.edition-rz.de/3355-105,1,0.html |access-date=2018-01-23 }} Diatribe Records{{cite web |title=Flame |url=http://shop.diatribe.ie/track/flame |access-date=2018-01-23 }} and 326 music.

Notable former students include Sergio Luque,{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://sergioluque.com/biography/|website=Sergio Luque|access-date=23 January 2018}} Norah Lorway,{{cite web|title=N CONVERSATION: NORAH LORWAY ON LIVE CODING AND ALGORAVES|url=https://medium.com/@tmarasco125/in-conversation-norah-lorway-on-live-coding-and-algoraves-31e9258b74c0|website=Medium|date=7 December 2017 |access-date=23 January 2018}} Richard Bullen,{{cite web|title=About|url=https://www.richardbullen.co.uk/about|website=Richard Bullen|access-date=23 January 2018}} Shelly Knotts,{{cite web |title=Shelly Knotts |url=http://www.bilensemble.co.uk/about/shelly-knotts/ |access-date=2018-01-23 }} and Sam Pluta.{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.sampluta.com/biographyText.html|website=Sam Pluta|access-date=23 January 2018}}