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John Chowning

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American composer and inventor of FM sound synthesis

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  • FM Theory & Applications
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Active from
1934-08-22

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As director of the Center for Computer Research and Musical Acoustics at Stanford University (CCRMA), John Chowning has long been an articulate and enthusiastic spokesman for music produced by electronic means. While still a graduate student in composition at Stanford in 1964, he became interested in electronic music. Since the school had no analog synthesis equipment but did have a large computer, he jumped directly into digital synthesis. In the '70s <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Cho

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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    · 1992 · cited 28,820x

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