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Bülent Arel (April 23, 1919 – November 24, 1990) was a Turkish-American composer known for his contributions to contemporary classical and electronic music. Born in Istanbul, he studied composition at the Ankara Conservatory and sound engineering in Paris. In 1959, he joined the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where he collaborated on the electronic sections of Edgard Varèse's "Deserts" in 1962. Arel designed and installed the electronic music laboratory at Yale University and established the electronic music program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, teaching there from 1971 until his retirement in 1989. He was an inventor of the 'splicing tape dispenser' and other tape handling devices, and he was a pioneer of looping techniques.

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