He was unquestionably an example to us all. Whether a good or bad one (or both, or neither) it falls to each of us to decide…
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On 19 Feb 2015, at 17:04, Julian Rohrhuber <julian.rohrhuber_at_musikundmedien.net> wrote:
> This is so sad to hear - despite being in hist best year, his suffering was long and severe indeed. My heartfelt condolences to those few who always stayed close to him.
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>> On 18.02.2015, at 01:13, Nick Collins <clicksonnil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Some of you on this list knew of Click Nilson, and a few met him, and one of you lent him a jumper.
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>> I'm sorry to report that after a long battle with terminal identity crisis, the lesser known composer Click Nilson died late last night; He passed at precisely 12:12am, his second favourite time. His last words were reported to be 'append epitaph later'.
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>> Click Nilson was an infuriating and elusive presence in the nascent live coding scene, in which artists argue about the nature and very definition of algorithmic art through public spectacle (they also argue with themselves in private about the same). He was the author of a number of text music instruction works which often involve a live coding protagonist as agent provocateur of musical discourse. He appeared in public rarely, usually to berate his audience and speak deliberately bad Swedish; he sometimes employed actors to the same purpose. Whilst he authored at least one tract about his work, the criminally overrated anti-novella 'Rewrite me', the authorship of certain academic outputs such as his manifesto on practice skills for live coding has been disputed.
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>> Born and passed in Stockholm, living most of his life in Sweden but for a few isolated visits to Germany and Mongolia, his contribution to the Swedish economy was minimal, and his influence on world events unremarkable. Coming to protuberance in the late 1960s European avant garde, he retreated after a crisis of confluence, only to return briefly and regrettably in the mid 1970s and with similar mistaken views at a few subsequent later occasions.
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>> He does not merit the amount of attention this obituary has already given him, and were he alive to complain, would no doubt have the words presented here be erased from history and replaced with something else entirely.
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>> His later works languished in obscurity, including the ascii symphony for 256 live coders (each with the ability to type one character only), a theatre piece for an anguished scholar of poetry reading ('re-cite me'), and the improvisation structure 'landspeed live coding record attempt'. Occasional code boxer, curator, bon vivant, mal vivant and hen party special guest, he is survived by his great grandfather Jane.
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>> He would have appreciated the irony of dying four days short of his 64th birthday, twice, after eight sixteenths of a thirty second.
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