Miguel Frasconi (born May 29, 1956 in
New York City
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) is an American
composer
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who often uses improvisation, electronics, and experimental musical instruments.
Work
He has used new glass instruments,
and was a founding member of
The Glass Orchestra
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from 1977 to 1986.
He has also worked with
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...
,
Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various w ...
,
Paul Dresher
Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951, in Los Angeles) is an American composer.
Paul Dresher was born and raised in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. From an early age, he was surrounded by music, deeply influenced by the sounds of Elvis Presl ...
,
John Oswald, and, since 2004,
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition '' Silver Apples of the Moon'', the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the fo ...
.
Education
In 1979, he received his B.F.A. from
York University
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,
Toronto
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, where he studied composition with
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 ...
, electronic music with
Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020) was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. A student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono, he was known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performances. He ...
and
David Rosenboom
David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music.
Rosenboom has explored various forms of music, languages for improvisation, ...
, improvisation with
Casey Sokol, and
Carnatic music
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It is o ...
with
Jon B. Higgins and
Trichy Sankaran
Trichy Sankaran (born 27 July 1942) is an Indian percussionist, composer, scholar, and educator. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2011. As a mridangam ''vidwan'', he has been called a "doyen among the percussionist ...
.
References
External links
frasconimusic website Miguel Frasconi myspace-music pageSteeling Beauty: The inventive instruments of Mobius Operandi's Oliver DiCicco (SFGate.com)
American male classical composers
21st-century American classical composers
1956 births
Living people
York University alumni
21st-century American male musicians
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