- Year of birth, place
- 1945, Kalkutta, India
- lives and works in
- Köln, Germany
- Biography
- Born in Calcutta, Barlow studied both Indian art music as well as composers at the Cologne Academy of Music under Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He began composing electro-acoustic pieces as early as the 1970s, and lectured at Darmstadt Holiday Courses from 1982 to 1994. He taught computer music at the Cologne Academy of Music until 2006. In addition, Barlow held a Guest Professorship for composition and radio plays at Folkwang University Essen, and was Artistic Director at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He is currently Professor and Director of Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Last update: 2006]
