Benjamin Thigpen, nomad, born in the United States, with degrees in English Literature, Comparative Literature and “Esthetics, Technologies and Artistic Creations,” immigrated to Paris at the age of 31. Since then, he has composed at GRM (Paris), at EMS (Stockholm), at STEIM (Amsterdam), at VICC (Sweden), at l'Espace Totem (Montreal), at Musiques et Recherches (Belgium), at SCRIME (Bordeaux), at Djerassi (California), in his bedroom and in the train.

He makes music for loudspeakers: purely electroacoustic; live computer performance; interactive music for computer and acoustic instrument(s). His music is concerned with issues of energy, density, complexity, movement, simultaneity and violence, and he often works extensively with space as a primary compositional parameter. He thinks that music does not exist in time but rather creates it, and considers that music is not the art of sound but the art of the transcendence of sound.

After six years at Ircam (Paris), and seven at the Conservatory of Cuneo (Italy), he currently teaches computer music at the the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium), in addition to working as a free-lance programmer and musician.