迟到的海报
今天晚上的海报现在才贴，真不好意思。虽然迟了，但是该知道的都已经知道了，不知道的，请继续保持更紧密的联系。
贴出来主要是想说，谢谢西西不辞劳苦不断为壹家系列活动设计海报！希望大家多多找她合作。
阿尔温·科兰
世界当代音乐最有影响的泰斗之一。早期电子乐研究创作的先驱。1965年起，就做为激进音乐团体MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA的创办人之一活跃。无数当代音乐巨匠都受到过他的启发。他在D-22的演出，将是2006年发生在中国的最重要的演出之一。
Democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental, Curran travels in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, and makes music for every occasion with any sounding phenomena — a volatile mix of lyricism and chaos, structure and indeterminacy, fog horns, fiddles and fiddle heads. He is dedicated to the restoration of dignity to the profession of making non-commercial music as part of a personal search for future social, political and spiritual forms.
Curran’s music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvised, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal…) in a serene dialectical encounter. His more than 100 works feature taped/sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordion and chorus. Whether in the intimate form of his well-known solo performances, or pure chamber music, experimental radio works or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, all forge a very personal language from all the languages through dedicated research and recombinant invention.
With a fortuitous bang, he begins his musical journey (1965 in Rome) as co-founder of the radical music collective MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA, as a solo performer, and as a composer for Rome’s avantgarde theater scene. In the 70’s, he creates a poetic series of solo works for synthesizer, voice, taped sounds and found objects. Seeking to develop new musical spaces, and now considered one of the leading figures in making music outside of the concert halls — he develops a series of concerts for lakes, ports, parks, buildings, quarries and caves — his natural laboratories. In the 1980’s, he extends the ideas of musical geography by creating simultaneous radio concerts for three, then six large ensembles performing together from many European Capitals. By connecting digital samplers to MIDI Grands (Diskklavier) and computers, since 1987, he produces an enriched body of work — an ideal synthesis between the concert hall and all sounding phenomena in the world. In 1990, he begins a visually striking series of sound installations, in collaboration with Melissa Gould. Throughout these years he continues to write a significant amount of music for acoustic instruments.
From 1975-80 taught vocal improvisation at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica (Rome) and since 1991 has been the Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Born December 13, 1938, Providence, Rhode Island. From five years: piano lessons, trombone, marching bands, Synagogue chants, Jazz, and his father’s dance bands. Becomes an artist at age 13 in an apple tree at the house of his lifelong friend, poet Clark Coolidge. Hears Spike Jones, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Satchmo, The Boston Symphony Orcherstra, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, The Band of America, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Bartok and Christian Wolff.
Studies composition with Ron Nelson (B.A. Brown University 1960) and with Elliott Carter and Mel Powell( M.Mus., Yale School of Music l963). During summer vacations, plays European crossings with the “Brunotes” on the Holland American Line, in a Greek Dance Band in the Catskills, and in the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas.
Continues studies and friendship with Carter in Berlin (1964 Ford Foundation Grant), meets Stravinsky, Xenakis, Berio, Yuji Takahashi, Andriessen, Remo Remotti, and above all Rzewski. Goes to Darmstadt, hangs with Babbitt and Earl Brown, hears Stockhausen and Ligeti. Goes to Rome with Joel Chadabe and plays piano in bars on via Veneto, meets Franco Evangelisti and Cornelius Cardew.
In the MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA years (1966 -1971 in Rome), performs in over 200 concerts in Europe and the USA with Teitelbaum and Rzewski, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, Alan Bryant and Jon Phetteplace; and makes significant artistic encounters with: Giuseppe Chiari, Edith Schloss, AMM, Cardew, Steve Lacy, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Steve ben Israel, Anthony Braxton, Simone Forti, Steve Reich, Joan La Barbara, Michael Nyman, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Ashley, Behrman, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Larry Austin, Bill Smith, Ketoff, Robert Moog, Nuova Consonanza, MEV2, Meme Perlini, Mario Ricci, Maria Monti, Prima Materia, Ron Bunzl, Phil Glass, Charlemagne Palestine, Terry Riley, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Gregory Reeves, Serge Tcherepnin, Kosugi, Pulsa, Maryanne Amacher, John Cage, David Tudor, Morton Feldman. Scelsi becomes his friend and mentor.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Bearns Prize, BMI award 1963, National Endowment for the Arts (twice), DAAD (Berlin residencies 1963-4 and 1986-7), WDR Ars Acustica International 1988 (”For Julian”), Prix Italia 1985 (Gian Franco Zaffrani Prize, for “1985 - A Piece for Peace”), the city of Pisa Premio Novecento, Fromm Foundation (Harvard University), Hass Family Award (San Francisco), Meet the Composer (assistance to many concerts), Leonardo Award for Excellence 1995, interviewed by the Yale Oral History American Music project (category: “Major Figures in American Music”), Guggenheim Foundation 2004, Ars Electronica 2004, Phonurgia Nova 2005 (”I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling in the Zurich Hauptbahnhof”). Finalist Izzy Award 2001-2002 (”May I Now?”).
PRINCIPAL MUSIC COLLABORATIONS
The Abel-Steinberg Winant Trio
Alter Ego
Ars Ludi
Bang on a Can Allstars
Nicola Bernardini
The Bomarzo town Band
Bruce Brubaker
John Cage
The Cassatt Quartet
Mike Cooper
Jed Distler
Chris Dobrian
The EAR Unit
Eve Egoyan
Luc Ferrari
Frankie Hi NRG
Fred Frith
Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Group 180 (Budapest)
Shelley Hirsch
The Hub
Joan Jeanrenaud
The Kronos Quartet
Joan La Barbara
Steve Lacy
Garrett List
Maarten Altena Ensemble
Yvar Mikhashoff
Ali Momemi
Pauline Oliveros
Ursula Oppens
The Paul Dresher Ensemble
The Relache Ensemble
Jon Rose
The Rova Saxophone Quartet
Frederic Rzewski
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Scanner
Domenico Sciajno
John Sebastian, Sr.
The Soldier Quartet
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Denis Russel- Davies, Cond.)
The Suddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra (Alex Winterson, Cond.)
SWR Vokalensemble
Aki Takahashi
Richard Teitelbaum
Stefan Tiedje
Frances Uitti
Daan Vandewalle
Reinier Van Houdt
William Winant
Stefano Zorzanello (Playground, Bologna)
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