Born on 30th August 1933 in Stockholm, died 22nd November 2002 in Stockholm. He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1953-1961, where he first passed the Music Teacher Examination in 1958 and thereafter studied composition with Erland von Koch, Lars-Erik Larsson, Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Bo Wallner. Mellnäs then studied music theory until…

His 1977 book The Tuning of the World, which summarizes his ideas about the role of sound in our environment, has been translated into many languages and has been extremely influential around the world. A pioneer of soundscapes and graphic notation, Schafer has composed works in all media that engage with the environment on a…

Self-taught in composition and piano. During 1957-60, he composed music by total serialism. From 1961, he has interested in the music indeterminacy music. Since 1967, he began to compose new quatation music. From 1976, his music inclined to modal and furthermore developed to the pitch interval technique. Selected for the festival of ISCM in 10…