Gordon Mumma

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Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935 in Framingham , Massachusetts ) is a contemporary American composer .

Life

Gordon Mumma studied piano and horn in Chicago and Detroit. He began his career as a horn player.

Together with Robert Ashley he founded the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music in Ann Arbor . From 1966 to 1974 he worked with John Cage and David Tudor as a composer and musician for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union in 1966 with Ashley, Alvin Lucier and David Behrman , a group that toured the USA and Europe with experimental music. For the Expo '70 in Osaka he and David Tudor developed a system for the live performance of electronic music, and in 1972 he enjoyed great success at the Shiraz arts festival in Iran together with John Cage and Merce Cunningham .

He taught a. a. at the University of Illinois and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music , from 1975 to 1994 he was Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

Gordon Mumma is best known for his compositions in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music , from 2000 onwards he wrote primarily music for solo instruments and chamber music.

In 2000 he received the John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and in 2019 he received the SEAMUS Award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) .

Movies

  • 1975 - Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television . Tape 4: Gordon Mumma. Produced and directed by Robert Ashley. New York: Lovely Music.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography
  2. ↑ Richard S. James, David Revill:  Mumma, Gordon. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Supper:  Mumma, Gordon. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ^ Robert Gluck: The Shiraz Arts Festival: Western Avant-Garde Arts in 1970s Iran . Leonardo, 2007, ISSN  0024-094X (English, mitpressjournals.org [PDF; accessed July 23, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Gordon Mumma Named 2019 SEAMUS Award Winner on seamusonline.org from January 3, 2019
  6. ↑ Music with Roots in the Aether (1975) on UbuWeb
personal data
SURNAME Mumma, Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Framingham , Massachusetts