Tim Souster

Tim Souster (29 January 1943 – 1 March 1994) was a British composer and writer on music, best known for his electronic music output (Jack 1994).

Born Timothy Andrew James Souster in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire (Jack 1994), Souster was educated at Bedford Modern School (from 1952 through 1961) (Anon. 2005) and New College, Oxford (from 1961 through 1964). His teachers included Bernard Rose, Sir David Lumsden and Egon Wellesz. In 1964, he attended summer courses at Darmstadt taught by , and took composition lessons with Richard Rodney Bennett the following year (Griffiths 2001; Anon. 2005).

Before the end of 1965, Souster was a producer with the BBC Third Programme, and put on many performances of contemporary music by composers such as Boulez, Berio, Barraqué, Cardew, Feldman, Henze and Stockhausen (Griffiths 2001; Jack 1994) After leaving the BBC in 1967, he began to devote more time to composing and songwriting (Jack 1994).

In the late 1960s Souster began experimenting with electronics. His first acknowledged composition involving electronic techniques was Titus Groan Music (1969) for wind quintet, ring modulator, amplifiers and tape. In August of the same year he moved to King's College, Cambridge and formed a live-electronic group with Roger Smalley, Andrew Powell and Robin Thompson called Intermodulation (Griffiths 2001). As well as compositions by Souster and Smalley, the group performed contemporary music by Cardew, Riley, Rzewski, Stockhausen and Wolff(Anon. 2005).

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