Ron Kuivila (born December 19, 1955) is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, performances, and recorded materials that make use of computers, and for his contributions to the

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audio programming language.

Biography

Kuivila studied under

Alvin Lucier Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in M ...

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the c ...

and graduated with a B.A. in Music and a B.A. in Mathematics in 1977. He went on to receive his MFA from

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, studying under

Robert Ashley Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involv ...

and

David Behrman David Behrman (born August 16, 1937) is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In the early 1960s he was the producer of Columbia Records' ''Music of Our Time'' series, which included the first recording of Terry Riley's ''In C'' ...

. Kuivila released sound pieces as part of the

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compilations as well as through Sonic Arts and Lovely Music. In the 1990s Kuivila and

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were responsible for creating the software language Formula, which has been used by

. He currently teaches classes in Experimental Music, Computers in Music, and Studio Recording at Wesleyan University, where he served as the chair of the music department. Kuivila received a 2008

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Grants to Artists Award. In May 2011, he was named University Professor of Music. He currently works with the open-source software

. His works have been installed at the

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, Diapason Gallery, the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximatel ...

, the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Media Study/Buffalo, 80 Langton Street, and

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. He has performed at

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, PASS, The Experimental Intermedia Foundation, and Bilhaud Gallery.

Discography

*''Linear Predictive Zoo'' on Tellus #22 False Phenomes, 1988 *''Blurred Genres'', Slowscan, Vol. 6, 1986 *''Cannon Y for C.N.'' on Tellus #9, 1985 *''Parodicals'' on Tellus #9, 1985 *''Fidelity,'' Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 1722, 1985 *''TI Intends... (to enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent permitted by law)'' on Tellus #2, 1984 *''Going Out with Slow Smoke'', Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 1701, 1982

References

External links

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