Richard Lerman (Dec 5, 1944 in

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, CA) is a composer and

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ist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made

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s of unusually small size,"Layne, Joslyn (2011).
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".Richard Lerman
, ''NewCollege.ASU.edu''. He studied with

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Gordon Mumma Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He is known most for his work with electronics, many devices of which he builds himself, and for his performances on horn. Biography Mumma entered the Unive ...

, and

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. He was awarded a

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in Sound Art ( Video & Audio) for 1987-88. He also works in film, having had a show at

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, and is currently working on advanced programming in DVD creation. Lerman's work is often site-specific. Pieces include ''Travelon Gamelon'', for amplified bicycles; ''A Seasonal Mapping of the Sonoran Desert'', which includes cactus needles plucked by rainfall; and the collaboration (with Mona Higuchi) ''Threading History'', for which he recorded prison camp barbed wire. In the 80s he lived in Boston and taught at

the Museum School The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusett ...

and the

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.Hugh Marlais Davies and Apollohuis (1986). ''Echo: The Images of Sound'', p.92.

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, ''West.ASU.edu''. 1944 births American male composers 21st-century American composers Living people 21st-century American male musicians {{US-composer-20thC-stub