Composer Clarence Barlow (see Figure 1) died in June 2023 at the age of 77, from complications of a fall in the preceding months. He is known for unique approaches to organizing pitch and rhythm, bringing mathematics, computer science, visual arts, and literature together with a variety of musical traditions. Born in 1945 in Kolkata (at the time, Calcutta, British India), Barlow moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1968, where he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmerman and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He began to use computers in composition while studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1971, when it obtained a DEC PDP-15 computer. Barlow taught composition in the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1982–1994) and at the Institute of Sonology (1990–2006), serving as its artistic director from 1990 to 1994. He held the Corwin Endowed Chair in Music Composition, in the University of California Santa Barbara Department of...

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