Contact: 6859 Hidden Cove Road Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (206) 780-8449 strange@bainbridge.net |
Involved with music technology since the middle 1960's AllenStrange has remained active as a composer, performer, author and educator. In 1972 Allen’s text, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls appeared as the first comprehensive work on analog music synthesis. After several editions the text still remains in print as a classic reference and guide for studio synthesis. In the late 1960s Allen and his wife, Patricia, founded BIOME, a pioneering live-electronic music performance. In 1976 they co-founded the Electric Weasel Ensemble with synthesizer designer Donald Buchla. Both ensembles have toured internationally and the Stranges continue to concertize as a duo composer/performer team. Their book, The Contemporary Violin; Extended Performance Techniques, has recently been published by the University of California Press. Allen Strange is Professor Emeritus from San Jose State University and is now a full-time independent composer living on Bainbridge Island in Washington. |
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Shadowboxer |
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Shadowboxer is the first of six "ear-movies" from Sideshow, a collection based on characters, real and imaginary, from the underbelly of 19th century carnival life. They may be played as a collection or individually, and/or in conjunction with the computer animations of David Van Brink. Shadowboxer - like the tree falling silently in the forest, can a sound have a shadow? 1:39 3.7 MB | |||
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2 White Lady |
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The second in the Sideshow series, White Lady, a red-eyed albino seductress or merely a cocaine dream? 2:12 5 MB | |||
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