A. Wayne Slawson (December29, 1932August6, 2022) was a composer and professor. He was best known for Wishful Thinking About Winter, composed at MIT in 1967,Schrader, Barry (1982). Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music, p.159. . a computer-generated setting of a haiku that uses a wide range of spectral glide rates.Erickson, Robert (1975). Sound Structure in Music, p.73. .
He died in 2022, aged 89.
Bibliography "A Speech-Orientated Synthesizer for Computer Music" "Sound, Electronics, and Hearing", The Development and Practice of Electronic Music. Jon H. Appleton and Ronald Perera, eds. .
Discography Wishful Thinking About Winter. Decca DL 710180.
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Further reading Routledge (2009). "Slawson, A. Wayne", International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009, p. 765. .