Live-electronic music for four musicians and tape, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation for performance with the dance work and film, Coast Zone. Choreographed by Merce Cunningham and first performed by John Cage, voice; Martin Kalve, koto; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; and David Tudor, electronics.
Includes Maroon Bells, Catalogo Voce, Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 1, and Second Fantasy on Ives' Universe Symphony.
Includes Stars, Protoforms: Fractals for Computer Band, Phoenix, 1976, and Quadrants.
A video composition, composed as part of the Cybernetic Arts Project 1984. Funded through a commission awarded by the Inter-Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. (11 minutes)
"The Composer in the Computer Age IV: Larry Austin Retrospective: 1967-94." New release highlighting Austin's work.
Also a contributor and editor in SOURCE Magazine. Please refer to SOURCE heading (in Rare Collector's Items section) for details.
Larry Austin's music is composed for diverse combinations of instruments, voices, audio and/or video tape, film, computers and live electronics. His works have been widely performed, recorded, and published. His realization and completion of Charles Ives's Universe Symphony was premiered in 1994 by the Cincinnati Philharmonia. The compact disc recording on Centaur Records was acclaimed by the New York Times. Austin is Professor of Music and Chair, Division of Composition Studies, University of North Texas. Fellow composers know, too, his editorial and leadership roles as co-founder/editor of SOURCE: Music of the Avant Garde (1966-1974) and President of both the International Computer Music Association (1989-1994) and CDCM (1986-present), producer of the CDCM Computer Music Series on Centaur Records.
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