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"Live Concert with Carl Stone"
Carl Stone, Gene Coleman
 Press Kit
Event Date: Saturday, February 18, 2006
Location: Slought Foundation
Sound Field @ Slought Series
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Gene Coleman
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Please join us on Saturday, February 18, 2006 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for the Sound Field @ Slought series, featuring a live concert with Carl Stone, solo and in duo with Gene Coleman.
Carl Stone is a pioneer of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling" and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his performance and composition schedule, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan. A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Stone is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. Recordings of Stone's music have been released on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, New Tone and various other labels. His music has been used by numerous theater directors and choreographers including Hiroshi Koike, Akira Kasai, Bill T. Jones, Setsuko Yamada, Ping Chong, June Watanabe, Kuniko Kisanuki, Rudy Perez, Hae Kyung Lee, and Blondell Cummings. Musical collaborations include Yuji Takahashi, Kazue Sawai, Aki Takahashi, Sarah Cahill, Haco, Dorit Cypis, Michiko Akao, Stelarc, z'ev, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Tosha Meisho, Otomo Yoshihide, Kathleen Rogers, Min Xiao-Fen and Mineko Grimmer.
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and artistic director. He has created over 40 works for various instrumentation, often-using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. He has been composer in residence at Spritzen Haus (Hamburg, November 1995), ASAP (Maine, August 2000 and 2001), The House of World Cultures (Berlin, 2003/2004) and the University of Lubeck (Germany, Feb. 2005). He has received commissions from Winifred Huan Dance Company, Trio Accanto, Klangforum Wien, The Renaissance Society, The International House of Japan, Trio AYA, Chicago Cultural Center, The Takefu Festival, HKW Berlin, Konzerthaus Wien, the Lucerne Festival and the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation. In the area of improvised music, he has played in concert with respected musicians including Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Roscoe Mitchell, William Parker, Taku Sugimoto, Kevin Drumm, Yuji Takahashi, Otomo Yoshihide, Theo Bleckmann and many others. He has also recorded with Jim O'Rourke and Mats Gustaffson, as well as several projects with the minimalist composer Tony Conrad.
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