Gene Bowen, also known as Eugene Bowen (born 1950), is a composer, guitarist, pedal steel guitarist, sound designer and vocalist. He has collaborated with and appears on recordings by a number of new music composers, including

Harold Budd Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936December 8, 2020) was an American music composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music and avant-garde scene of Southern California ...

and Daniel Lentz. Bowen was working with Harold Budd,

James Tenney James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microt ...

, Daniel Lentz, Wolfgang Stoerchle and John Baldessari while studying at

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for ...

in the 1970s, where he plays guitar, keyboards, synthesizers and sings. He has contributed to Harold Budd's recordings in one of the landmark albums of the ambient style, '' Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror'' (EG, 1980 with Brian Eno), ''The Serpent (In Quicksilver)'' (Cantil, 1981), ''Abandoned Cities'' (Cantil, 1984), etc. Recently he collaborated with John Densmore – the drummer of The Doors – at Hen House Studios.

Recordings

Solo albums

* ''Bourgeois Magnetic'' (Cantil/ Amorfon) (produced by

and Gene Bowen) * ''Vermilion Sea'' (Caroline/Gyroscope)

Collaborations

* ''Compilation (Cold Blue'' CB0008) ("Wonder's Edge" with

) * '' Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror'' (Virgin) (with

and

Brian Eno Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (, born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambien ...

) * ''Abandoned Cities'' (Opal Records 9 26025–2) (with

) * ''Hen House Studios Anthology #1'' Hen House Studios) (with

John Densmore John Paul Densmore (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the Rock music, rock band the Doors and as such is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He appeared on every recording made by the band, ...

)

External links

Gene Bowen Interview, May 2007
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