Simon Emmerson

Simon Emmerson is a British composer of electroacoustic music, born in Wolverhampton in 1950, who works mostly with live electronics. He has also written widely on the subject: he edited The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986) and wrote Living Electronic Music (2007). Emmerson founded the electroacoustic studio at City University, London, in 1975 and ran it until 2004, then became Professor of Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in Leicester, where he is now Emeritus Professor. His Time Past IV, for soprano and tape, won a first prize at the 1985 Bourges awards.