Dick Raaijmakers (Sept. 1, 1930, Maastricht, The Netherlands) is a 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). He built together with Jan Boerman 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.
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.