Thor Magnusson

Thor Magnusson is a professor in experimental humanities at the University of Iceland and a professor of future music in the Music Department at the University of Sussex. Thor recently served as an Edgard-Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. Thor's research has roots equally in practice and theory and recent books include 'Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscription' and 'Live Coding: A User's Manual', published by Bloomsbury Academic and MIT Press respectively. He is the principal Investigator of the Intelligent Instruments project that is funded by the European Research Council (ERC).