Emmanuel Robert Ghent (May 15, 1925 in Montréal, Quebec – March 31, 2003 in New York City, USA) was a pioneering composer of electronic music and a psychiatric practitioner, researcher, and teacher.
Throughout his life, Ghent worked to expand his field of psychoanalysis beyond psychiatric practitioners.
Emmanuel Ghent was a key figure of the relational psychoanalysis movement, belonging to its first generation alongside Adrienne Harris, Stephen Mitchell, Muriel Dimen, and Ruth Stein.
With the advent of more sophisticated computer systems in the 1970s, Ghent was able to synchronize the lighting of the theater with the synthesized music.
In fact, several of his most famous compositions used this idea, most notably "Phosphones" and "Five Brass Voices for Computer-Generated Tape."