Jon Gibson

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Jon Charles Gibson (born March 11, 1940 in Los Angeles ) is a clarinetist , saxophonist , flautist and composer , who has mainly emerged in the field of minimal music .

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Gibson studied at Sacramento State University and with Henry Onderdonk and Wayne Peterson at San Francisco State University , where he graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree. He then worked in the New Music Ensemble at the University of California, Davis with Larry Austin .

As a musician, he was at the premiere of Terry Riley's In C involved. The composition Reed Phase (1967) was written by the composer Steve Reich for Gibson, who had been concerned with circular breathing since 1963 (it was written before the phase shift pieces for piano and violin). He also took part in the world premiere and first recording of Reich's pieces Four Log Drums (1969), Phase Patterns (1970) and Drumming (1971). In the early 1970s he belonged to the improvisation ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva , where he performed works by Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski . Later he was part of the Philip Glass ensemble . He has also interpreted compositions by Christian Wolff , David Behrman , Harold Budd and Terry Jennings (with La Monte Young ).

Gibon also wrote his own, often semi- aleatoric compositions, some of which he interpreted himself and published on phonograms; but the SEM Ensemble under Petr Kotík and Thomas Buckner also recorded his acoustic works.

Discographic notes

  • Criss X Cross ( Tzadik 1979)
  • In Good Company (Point Music 1992)
  • The Dance (Orange Mountain Music 2009)

literature

  • Edward Strickland (2001) Gibson, Jon (Charles) . The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd edition. London: Macmillan Publishers.

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personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibson, Jon Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clarinetist, saxophonist, flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles