Doctoral candidate in composition David Nguyen was awarded a second prize in the XIII International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition for his composition "Adumbrations."

Sponsored by Destellos Foundation of Mar del Plata, Argentina, the annual competition garners over 100 entries from across the globe, and is judged by an international panel. 

"Music is universal, but computing music—that is, composing pieces via computation rather than human input alone—is kind of an Illinois thing."

Katherine Kendig writes about the past and future of computers and music composition at Illinois on the website of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.