Clarence Barlow
Clarence Albertson Barlow (also " Klarenz Barlow "; born December 27, 1945 in Calcutta ) is an international composer.
Life
Of English and Portuguese descent, he belonged to the English-speaking minority in India . He wrote his first compositions at the age of 11 and graduated from Trinity College in London with a degree in natural sciences in Calcutta.
He then studied Indian classical music and simultaneously dealt with medieval and contemporary European music. From 1968 he studied composition and electronic music at the Cologne University of Music , with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen , among others .
In 1971 he started using computers for his compositions. Today he is one of the most famous representatives of computer music .
Since 1968 he lived in Cologne, since 2006 in Santa Barbara , California.
Teaching activities
- Calcutta School of Music 1966–1968
- Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 1982–1994
- Professor of Composition and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague 1994–2006
- Corwin Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara since 2006
Artistic Director
- Initiator and longtime head of the Initiative for Music and Computer Science (GIMIK) Cologne (from 1986)
- International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Cologne 1988
- Institute for Sonology at the Royal Conservatory The Hague 1990–1994
Awards
- Kranichsteiner Music Prize , Darmstadt 1980
- Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship of the City of Cologne 1981
Works
- Text music for piano (1971)
- ... until ... for melody instrument (1972)
- Sinophonie II (electronic composition, 1972)
- Ratios for melody instruments (1974)
- Çoğluotobüsişletmesi for piano (1975–79)
- CCU (audio piece, 1979-80)
- In January on the Nil for ensemble (1981-84)
- Variazioni e un piano meccanico for pianist and self-playing piano (1986)
- Fruitti d'Amore for violoncello and computer (1988)
- Orchideæ Ordinariæ or the Twelfth Root of Truth for large orchestra (1989)
- Talkmasters Choice (computer installation, 1992)
- Farting Quietly in Church - Lecture on "Haiku" for baritone self-playing piano and computer (1994)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 "Aux fins des quelques siècles" for piano, quadrophony and orchestra (1961–63 / 75 / 97-98)
- Zero Crossing (audio piece, 2000–01)
- Le loup en pierre (2003) Piece for two organs, one in a mid-tone tuning , one in a well-tempered tuning . The composition was commissioned by the University of Leiden and was composed for the two organs of the Pieterskerk in Leiden . (World premiere: Pieterskerk Leiden, 2003)
literature
- Claudia Maria Zey: Çoğluotobüsişletmesi and Autobusk [media combination]: 1. On the stochastic complex of compositions by Klarenz Barlow (1971-2000), 2. Source texts by and about Klarenz Barlow (1971-2000) , Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Clarence Barlow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Living Composers Project
- Biography from the feedback studio publishing house
grade
- ↑ about this organ: the Lemma Pieterskerk in Dutch Wikipedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barlow, Clarence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barlow, Clarence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calcutta |