Education
He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, United States of America, in Music Composition.
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He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, United States of America, in Music Composition.
In 1968, Vercoe"s research in Digital Audio Processing paved the way for the subsequent evolution of digital musical composition. In 1971, he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and established the Experimental Music facility in 1973. Notable students include Susan Frykberg and Miller Puckette.
He is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers.
SAOL, the underlying language for the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, is also historically derived from Csound.
Vercoe was a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory in 1984.
