Carl Stone

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Carl Stone (born February 10, 1953 in Los Angeles ) is an American composer .

Stone studied composition with Morton Subottnik and James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts . Since 1972 he has devoted himself to composing live electroacoustic works.

In 1984 Stone was commissioned to compose a work that premiered at the Olympic Arts Festival in San Francisco and was used in the same year by choreographer Bill T. Jones for the 1-2-3 production. In 1989 he spent six months in Japan on a grant from the Asian Cultural Council . In the same year, the composition Thonbury was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Arts as part of the Territory of Art radio production .

In 1990 he wrote the music for the one-hour ZDF broadcast Made in Hollywood . With commissioned work by Michiko Akao and Sumire Yoshihara , he received prizes at the International Electric Cinema Festival in Switzerland. In 1993 he composed Ruen Pair for the Paul Dresher Ensemble .

Mae Ploy was written for string quartet and electronics for the String Plus Festival in Kobe in 1994 . In the same year he composed Banh Mi So for Ondes Martenot and piano for Takashi Harada and Aki Takahashi . In 1995, NTT commissioned Yam Vun Sen , a work for the Internet.

In 1996 Stone composed the music for the Noh project by choreographer June Watanabe and Noh master Anshin Uchida with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation . In 1997 he composed Sa Rit Gol for Disklavier for the celebration of Henry Cowell's 100th birthday at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1998 he wrote the music for EXUSIAI , a performance by the butoh master Akira Kasai .

Stone was director of Meet the Composer / California from 1981 to 1997 and president of the American Music Center from 1992 to 1995 .

Works

  • Thonbury , 1989
  • She Gol Jib , for Japanese flute and electronics, 1991
  • Ruen Pair , 1993
  • Mae Ploy for string quartet and electronics, 1994
  • Banh Mi So for Ondes Martenot and piano, 1994
  • Yam Vun Sen , 1995
  • Sa Rit Gol for Disklavier, 1997
  • Se Jong
  • Hop Ken

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SURNAME Stone, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles