Studied with Richard Hervig, Gunther Schuller, Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-chung, Otto Luening, electronic music with Ussachevsky, computer music with Godfrey Winham. Research at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Bell Telephone Labs, University of CA at San Diego. Taught at Columbia, Princeton, Brooklyn College. Rota for orchestra (1966), Changes for computer-synthesized sound (1970), Earth's Magnetic Field for computer-synthesized sound (1970), Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental (1980) for piano and synthesized voice on tape. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny