 Artist: Alvin Curran: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Alvin Curran's discography:  Our Ur Year: 2003 Tracks: 4 American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international wireless concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Curran studied composition under Ron Nelson at Brown University, and afterward with Elliott Carter at Yale. After complemental his studies -- which likewise included pianissimo and trombone -- in 1963, Curran went with Carter to Berlin, where he remained for a year in front moving to Rome. In 1966, Curran co-founded the release music corporate Musica Elettronica Viva with Richard Teitelbaum and Frederic Rzewski. In the '70s, Curran focussed on solo performances that utilized keyboards, tape-recorded sounds, voice and more; over the years, he has as well performed on sampler and electronics. The '80s plant Curran creating large-scale environmental works in quarries, ports, caverns, on lakes, etc. During this time, he likewise staged wireless concerts of leash and six ensembles playing at the same time from assorted parts of Europe. From 1990 on, Curran has now and then collaborated on sound installations with artist Melissa Gould. He has also worked with dance companies and composed for new wave theater in Rome. Curran's implemental whole kit and boodle have been licenced by Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi, Rova, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and more. Some of his awards admit those from Ars Acoustica International, NPR and the NEA. He taught shortly at the Academia Nazionale d'Arts, and starting in the mid-90s served as guest professor at California's Mills College. Recordings of Curran's works seem on respective labels, including CRI, New Albion and Tzadik. |
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