Thor Magnusson

Thor Magnusson is a worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music and technology. He is a professor of future music in the Music Department at the University of Sussex and a research professor at the Iceland University of the Arts. In 2021 he served as an Edgard-Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin.

Research interests include musical performance, improvisation, new technologies for musical expression, live coding, musical notation and digital scores, artificial intelligence and computational creativity, programming education, and the philosophy of technology. (2022)

Publications

• Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, xiv+290 pp.
• editor, with Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, and Alex McLean, Live Coding: A User's Manual, MIT Press, 2022, 344 pp.
• more

Links

• Website
• http://www.iil.is/
• http://www.emutelab.org/
• http://www.ixi-audio.net/
• https://post.lurk.org/@thor (Mastodon)
• Twitter
• ORCID