The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams

Contributors

Contributors robert carl is chair of the composition department at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, and the author of Terry Riley’s In C. scott deal has appeared at performance venues, festivals and conferences in North America and Europe. He has premiered dozens of solo, chamber and mixed media works, and can be heard on the Albany, Centaur, Cold Blue and SCI labels. Continually inspired by new and emerging artistic technologies, Deal is the founder of the Telematic Collective, an Internet performance group comprised of artists and computer specialists. Deal currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana where he is a professor of music and director of the Donald Tavel Arts Technology Research Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He is a research affiliate for the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he was a professor of music from 1995–2007. He also serves as artist-faculty on the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (Sick Puppy) at the New England Conservatory. Deal holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami, a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cameron University. robert esler is a percussionist and educator currently living in Arizona. He serves on the faculty at Arizona State University, Polytechnic and in the Maricopa Community College District. Esler performs regularly with the local Phoenix ensemble Crossing 32nd Street, which has been hailed as one of Phoenix’s best new classical music ensembles . Esler was also a long-time member of the critically acclaimed percussion group red fish blue fish. As a soloist Esler is a lone pioneer in the field of percussion and interactive computer media. He is currently producing a series of performed sound installations called “Performing Data,” which are inspired by meaningful global data sets. Esler is also actively commissioning new works for computer media and percussion. He has performed on six albums for the Cantaloupe, CIEM, Mode, and Tzadik labels. Esler will be featured in a full-length documentary to be released in the next year. The film documents one of Esler’s renegade performances of Strange and Sacred Noise on the Alaskan tundra. Esler has written articles for the ICMA (International Computer Music Association) and contributes regularly to the website doctorrhythm .com. Dr. Esler holds degrees from the University of California San Diego, Yale University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. sabine feisst holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Free University of Berlin and is associate professor of Music History and Literature at Arizona State University. Her research interests focus on the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including experimental music, improvisation, eco-criticism, film music and the music of Arnold Schoenberg. Her publications include the monographs Schoenberg’s New 302 * contributors World: The American Years (2011) and Der Begriff “Improvisation in der neuen Musik” (The Idea of Improvisation in New Music, 1997) and chapters in Schoenberg and His World (1999), Edgard Varèse. Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary (1883-1965) (2006), and Geschichte der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, 1925-1945 (2006). She also contributed numerous articles to such journals as Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, The Musical Quarterly , Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center, and MusikTexte. kyle gann is a composer and teaches music theory and history at Bard College in upstate New York. From 1986 to 2005 he was the new-music critic for the Village Voice, and he is the author of several books on American music, including The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, American Music in the Twentieth Century, Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4'33", and (upcoming) Robert Ashley. His music is available on the New Albion, New World, Lovely Music, Cold Blue, Mode (upcoming), Meyer Media, and Monroe Street labels. peter garland, composer, has been a friend and colleague of John Luther Adams for over thirty-five years, since their student days at the brand new Cal Arts in the early 1970s. Like Adams, he was a student of James Tenney and a good friend of Lou Harrison . From 1971 to 1991 he edited and published SOUNDINGS Press, which printed scores and essays by multiple generations of composers, and which played a major role in the rediscovery and re-evaluation of the so-called American Experimental Tradition . He has done years of research and fieldwork on Native American musics, in California, the Southwest, and Mexico...