Leo Küpper

Leo Küpper (real name Léo Kupper) Belgian composer and theoretician, born April 16, 1935 in Nidrum. He worked with Henri Pousseur at the first electronic music studio in Belgium, Apelac (1959-62), and  is founder and director of the "Studio de Recherches et de  Structurations Electroniques Auditives" in Brussels (1967). He created  Sound Domes in Roma, Linz, Venezia and Avignon (1977-87). In thirty  years, he composed around 35 pieces of electronic music, vocal and  instrumental music, midi and computer music and wrote about his own  research in the field of phonetic and vocal music, musical machines and  psycho-acoustics (space perception and diffusion). Leo Kupper is also a  fine performer on the Persian santur - he studied with the famour santur  player Hossein Malek in Tehran.