UPIC
- Date
- 1977 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Iannis Xenakis (1977)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Computerized music-composition tool that lets the composer draw graphic shapes directly converted into sound, developed by composer Iannis Xenakis at CEMAMu.
What it led to
- computer-assisted graphic composition
- Xenakis's work 'Mycènes Alpha' (1978)
- precedent for modern graphic sound editors
- UPISketch software for music education