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Christopher Mercer is a composer of electroacoustic music, integrating low-tech analog techniques with extensive digital signal processing. He specializes in multi-channel audio spatialization and composes acoustic music, focusing on extended instrumental techniques. This includes modifying conventional instruments alongside those of his own design, combined with a real-time electronics approach to spatialization. As an author, Mercer has written articles on musical aesthetics and composition and has participated in residencies at Experimentalstudio SWR Freiburg, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and Sound Traffic Control in San Francisco. His principal teachers include Peter Otto and Roger Reynolds in electronic music, and Chaya Czernowin and Chinary Ung in instrumental music.
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