ICLC 2023 Catalogue

Click Nilson

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Biography

> Please write a biography of Click Nilson

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> You must have heard of him. Click Nilson is the Swedish avant garde composer credited by at least one person with inventing the entire field of live coding, and a marvellous fellow.

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Click Nilson is a Swedish composer and live coding pioneer who is known for his contributions to the field of experimental and electronic music. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of live coding, a technique that involves writing and modifying computer code in real-time to create music or visual art.

Nilson has been active in the Swedish music scene since the 1980s, and his work spans a wide range of genres, including ambient, techno, and noise music. He has released several albums over the years, including "Clicks and Cuts" (2000), "Music for the Gift" (2002), and "Late Music" (2005).

In addition to his work as a composer and musician, Nilson is also an educator and has taught courses on computer music and live coding at various universities and institutions around the world. He has also been involved in the development of several software tools and platforms for live coding, including the popular TidalCycles system.

Nilson's contributions to the field of electronic music and live coding have been widely recognized, and he has received numerous awards and accolades for his work. He continues to be an active and influential figure in the experimental music scene, and his work continues to inspire and influence a new generation of musicians and artists.

> That's all wrong, he is known by very few people, despised by most of those, and definitely never received any awards, or released those albums; isn't Clicks and Cuts a glitch music compilation on Mille Plateaux?

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