Joel Chadabe, Explorer of Electronic Musicâs Frontier, Dies at 82
As both a composer and an advocate, Mr. Chadabe devoted himself to what one music critic called the âmarriage between humans and their computers.â
The composer Joel Chadabe during his tenure at the State University of New York at Albany, where he had been hired at 27 to run the university’s electronic music studio. “I took to it, I think, because for me it was the frontier,” he said.Credit.Luther Smith
May 25, 2021Updated 5:56 p.m. ET
Joel Chadabe, a composer who helped pioneer electronic music in the 1960s, later developing compositional software programs and founding the Electronic Music Foundation, an advocacy organization for electronic music, died on May 2 at his home in Albany, N.Y. He was 82.