Virgil Moorefield

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Virgil Moorefield, 2014

Virgil Moorefield (born August 9, 1956 ) is an American composer, drummer, multimedia artist and book author.

Born in North Carolina, Moorefield grew up mainly in Europe and lives near Zurich in Switzerland. He studied composition at Princeton University and the Juilliard School, as well as comparative literature at Columbia University, and taught music at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan .

For a long time he lived in New York, where he played as a drummer in various rock bands and the avant-garde ensembles of Glenn Branca , Bill Laswell , Elliott Sharp and others. In his compositions, through-composed parts alternate with parts intended for free improvisation (“Comprovisation”), with the music being transformed into images in real time using computer programs in the manner of live electronics.

With his The Virgil Moorefield Bicontinental Pocket Orchestra (with Vicky Chow , piano, Ian Ding , vibraphone, Martin Lorenz , drums, Taylor Levine , electric guitar, Jürg Wickyhalder , baritone saxophone and Will Robbins , double bass) he has performed in Europe and the USA, at the Inventing America Festival in London's Barbican Hall and at the Bang on a Can Marathon in Lincoln Center . His intermedia work Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound has been performed at festivals in the USA, Canada, Ireland and Chile. His work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others . In 2005, MIT Press published his book The Producer As Composer .

Works

  • Transformations , LP. 1982
  • Bhopal , LP. 1986
  • Distractions On the Way To the King's Party , 1994
  • The Temperature in Hell is Over 3,000 Degrees , 1997
  • Chicago Union Station , 2004
  • Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven , 2007
  • Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound , 2008-11
  • No Business As Usual , CD, 2013
  • Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound , DVD, 2013

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SURNAME Moorefield, Virgil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, drummer, multimedia artist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1956