MAY 19 - JUNE 8, 2008Application Deadline: February 15, 2008GEORGE LEWIS, composer
* For more information on composer George Lewis, please visit www.music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html RESIDENCY STATEMENTI'm particularly interested in working in the open improvisation context with groups of electroacoustic musicians, or non-electronic musicians who are open to real-time transformations of acoustic material (either their own or those made by others). At least once weekly, we will create and record a group improvisation event, which will be discussed immediately afterwards in seminar format. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTSApplicants should submit a resume/biography (but no press reviews), up to three audio selections on CD, and a 300-word abstract outlining the nature of their practice and aesthetic, as well as their plans and hopes for the residency. |
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George E. Lewis serves as the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lewis studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis's work as composer, improvisor, performer and interpreter explores electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and notated and improvisative forms, and is documented on more than 120 recordings. His published articles on music, experimental video, visual art, and cultural studies have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes, and his book, Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, from the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2007. |