Larry Austin

Larry Austin (born 12 September 1930) is an American composer from Oklahoma City, emeritus professor of music at the University Of North Texas. He studied with Canadian composer Violet Archer at UNT and French composer Darius Milhaud at Mills College, following by graduate studies under American composer Andrew Imbrie at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955–58. Austin learned electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Center (1965–66) and computer music at Stanford University (1969), and was closely associated with composers John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and David Tudor in California.