Philip Werren

Philip Werren (born April 6, 1942 ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Werren studied at Yale University (Bachelor) and Princeton University (Master of Fine Arts) with Quincy Porter , Donald Martino , Milton Babbitt , Roger Sessions and Earl Kim . He also attended the Darmstadt summer courses , where Günter Bialas shaped him. Between 1968 and 1971 he taught at the Center for Communications and the Arts at Simon Fraser University . From 1977 until his retirement he taught electroacoustic music at the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University .

As a composer he occasionally experimented with synthesizers , tape loops and natural sounds. His works from the 1970s, like those of David Pritchard and Mort Garson, are typical of the psychedelic avant-garde music of the time. Later, he was convinced the movement and energy in dance that can easily be combined with the electronic music, and much of his work in the 1980s, has investigated this relationship, as Tellurian (1981), which he for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens drafted and that was performed with a choreography by Linda Rabin . In 1984 Werren began exploring the possibilities of expanding the Sound Chaser Music System , which led to twenty studies for samplers entitled Absolute Music (1987).

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• Deutschlandfunk: The most expensive record rarities - Avantgarde - Phillip Werren's 4-LP box (1971)
• Entry (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
• York University - School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design - Philip Werren, Professor Emeritus