Dick Raaijmakers

Dutch electronic music pioneer and multimedia artist

Dick Raaijmakers (1 September 1930 - 5 September 2013) was a Dutch composer and teacher of electronic music. After studying piano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, he was employed by Philips in the field of electro-acoustics (1954-1960). Together with Jan Boerman he built his own studio for electronic music in The Hague (1963-66). He taught contemporary and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague 1966-1995. Although primarily a composer and a teacher, Raaijmakers has gradually embraced other mediums for his expression visual art, theatre, cinema and literature, in order to renew the ever moving relationship between art and technique.