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	Alvin Curran
		Alvin Curran ist ein amerikanischer Komponist, der Musik für jeden Anlaß schreibt.
		Curran's musical invention centers around his use of architecture and geography as natural musical theatres, and of all sound phenomena as music.
		Alvin Curran has received two NEA grants and 1992 he was nominated for the Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College.
	www.kunstradio.at /BIOS/curranbio.html (362 words)

	Alvin Curran - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Composer Alvin Curran (born 13 December 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.
		Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds.
		Alvin Curran in conversation with Frank J. Oteri (http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=2388)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alvin_Curran (144 words)

	Alvin Curran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds.Since 1996, Curran has worked on a series of 12 compositions entitled Inner Cities.
		Alvin Curran in conversation with Frank J. Oteri
		Alvin Curran, Discography, External links, Listening, 1938 births, Living people, American composers, 21st century classical composers, 20th century classical composers and Experimental musicians.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Alvin_Curran (202 words)

	Alvin Curran \| CHOM
		American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international radio concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s.
		In the '70s, Curran focused on solo performances that utilized keyboards, taped sounds, voice and more; over the years, he has also performed on sampler and electronics.
		The '80s found Curran creating large-scale environmental works in quarries, ports, caverns, on lakes, etc. During this time, he also staged radio concerts of three and six ensembles performing simultaneously from various parts of Europe.
	www.chom.com /performer/2983/curran (288 words)

	Kwadratuur.be :: Alvin Curran - Inner Cities 10 (fragment)
		Alvin Curran werd geboren in 1938 in, Providence, Rhode Island, studeerde piano, trombone en was als student in de weer met allerlei vorm van populaire muziek.
		Pianist Daan Vandewalle studeerde aan het conservatorium van Gent (waar hij momenteel docent is), aan het Mills College in Californie bij Alvin Curran en debuteerde op het festival voor hedendaagse muziek Ars Musica in 1992.
		Curran spint het verloop dit keer niet zo lang uit, maar breekt het af, gaat werken met een herhaald begeleidingsmotief en last abruptere uithalen in.
	www.kwadratuur.be /audio.php?id=212 (561 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Alvin Curran: biography, discography, reviews, links
		American-born composer Alvin Curran (1938), a student of Elliott Carter (1963), relocated to Rome in 1964.
		Curran resta uno degli apostoli piu' sinceri, se non geniali, di una francescanesimo musicale che si ispirava in egual misura alla musica concreta e all'improvvisaione del jazz.
		Curran achieves a sense of urgency, that, towards the end, manifests itself in a crescendo of glorious cacophony.
	www.scaruffi.com /oldavant/curran.html (1106 words)

	Alvin Curran Biography - AOL Music
		American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international radio concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s.
		In the '70s, Curran focused on solo performances that utilized keyboards, taped sounds, voice and more; over the years, he has also performed on sampler and electronics.
		The '80s found Curran creating large-scale environmental works in quarries, ports, caverns, on lakes, etc. During this time, he also staged radio concerts of three and six ensembles performing simultaneously from various parts of Europe.
	music.aol.com /artist/alvin-curran/2983/biography (261 words)

	Ear to the Earth Alvin Curran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	www.eartotheearth.org /artists/curran.html (149 words)

	New Albion Artists: Alvin Curran
		Alvin Curran makes music, with all means, anywhere and for any occasion.
		Since 1991 Curran has created three new scores for the Trisha Brown Dance Company that were presented in the City Center season in 1993.
		Curran taught briefly at the Academia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and is presently the Milhaud Professor of Music Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/currana (349 words)

	Biography
		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.
		From 1975-80 taught vocal improvisation at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica (Rome) and from 1991 to 2006 was the Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
	www.alvincurran.com /Curran_bio.html (592 words)

	New Albion Artists: Alvin Curran
		Alvin Curran makes music, with all means, anywhere and for any occasion.
		Since 1991 Curran has created three new scores for the Trisha Brown Dance Company that were presented in the City Center season in 1993.
		Curran taught briefly at the Academia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and is presently the Milhaud Professor of Music Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California.
	newalbion.com /artists/currana (0 words)

	Bagatellen: Alvin Curran/Domenico Sciajno - Our Ur
		Curran, the MEV veteran, has done some beautiful work over the decades although, for my taste, much of it (like the compositions “For Cornelius” and “Era Ora”) was in an avant-romantic vein parallel to that mined by Rzewski.
		Curran, on his own, has a tendency toward baroque levels of overkill but here he’s kept nicely in check and the piece absolutely glides from point to point, nudged instead of pushed, implications favored over declarations.
		One suspects that Curran supplies the allusions to intoned vocals and, again, they’re a bit bothersome, feeling far more forced and spiritually hokey than one would like.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/000505.html (590 words)

	Alvin Curran
		Alvin Curran's music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvised, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal...) in a serene dialectical encounter.
		Curran was born December 13, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island.
		From 1975-80, Curran 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.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Curran.shtml (149 words)

	Alvin Curran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alvin Curran was born in 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island.
		Curran's oeuvre includes large scale, site-specific sound environments and installations.
		In Rome, 1965, Curran co-founded the radical music collective Musica Elettronica Viva, a group which has performed several hundred times in Europe and in the U.S.A. He became well-known for bringing music outside of concert halls and developed concerts for lakes, ports, parks, buildings, quarries and caves.
	www.ps1.org /cut/volume/curran.html (268 words)

	Alvin Curran
		In his 1988 piece Crystal Psalms, Alvin Curran uses the powerful spiritual nature of music to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," which was the first major attack on German Jews.
		On October 20, 1988, much of western Europe heard what was to become a legend in radio history -- a concerto for musicians in six nations, simultaneously performed, mixed and broadcast live in stereo to an audience that spanned from Palermo to Helsinki.
		In addition, Curran used pre-recorded sounds (including Yementite Jews praying at the Western "Wailing" Wall, famous Eastern European cantors taken from old sound archives, and Curran's young niece singing her Bat Mizvah) as an accompaniment to the live performance.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/alvincurran.html (324 words)

	Yvar Mikhashoff plays Alvin Curran: Piano Works
		Curran's music is enjoying increased exposure in the market lately, with recent releases on Catalyst, New Albion and Tzadik.
		The three works here are all "in memoriam" to Curran's friends and mentors: composers Morton Feldman and Cornelius Cardew and Julian Beck, cofounder of the Living Theater.
		Of this performance, Curran says: "Yvar played this piece as he did all of my music: as if it were his own -- (he) immediately understood that this music had nothing to do with the notes on the page; his playing went right to the source."
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/049curran.html (259 words)

	Alvin Curran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Der in Oakland/Kalifornien und Rom wohnhafte Alvin Curran ist ein amerikanischer Komponist, der Musik für jeden Anlaß schreibt.
		Currans Musik, die dazu neigt, viele einander widersprechende Tendenzen zu versöhnen, ist von den Werken Giacinto Scelsis genauso beeinflußt wie von Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives, John Cage oder Spike Jones.
		Currans musikalische Erfindungen haben mit seinem Verständnis von Architektur und Geographie als natürlichen Bühnen für Musik zu tun.
	www.muenster.org /cuba/haus/cultur/stadtklang/curran.html (253 words)

	Alvin Curran \| View the Music Artists Biography Online \| VH1.com
		In the '70s, Curran focused on solo performances that utilized keyboards, taped sounds, voice and more; over the years, he has also performed on sampler and electronics.
		The '80s found Curran creating large-scale environmental works in quarries, ports, caverns, on lakes, etc. During this time, he also staged radio concerts of three and six ensembles performing simultaneously from various parts of Europe.
		Curran's instrumental works have been commissioned by Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi, Rova, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and more.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/curran_alvin/bio.jhtml (298 words)

	Alvin Curran - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international radio concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s.
		After completing his studies -- which also included piano and trombone -- in 1963, Curran went with Carter to Berlin, where he remained for a year before moving to Rome.
		From 1990 on, Curran has occasionally collaborated on sound installations with artist Melissa Gould.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/016/Alvin-Curran/11258191.html (263 words)

	Slought Foundation: "American Independents / Live Concert with Composer Alvin Curran" with Curran, Noamnesia, et al.
		As a democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental composer, Alvin Curran created the "Trans-Dada Express" while traveling in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, making music for every occasion with a variety of sounding phenomena.
		Whether in the form of intimate and well-known solo performances, or in the form of pure chamber music, experimental radio works, or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, Curran's compositions have demonstrated a commitment to research and recombinant invention and the restoration of dignity to his profession through non-commercial practice.
		Alvin Curran, one of the foremost American composers practicing today, has lived in Rome since the 1960’s.
	slought.org /content/11349 (763 words)

	Alvin Curran - The Score - Music - American Composers - New York Times Blog
		The European masters of the last 500 years are clear examples of this proposition: Monteverdi, Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Wagner, Verdi, Mahler – even Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky in the early 20th century – were the most in-demand composers of their respective times and places.
		Alvin Curran playing two keyboards at a concert at RAI studio in Rome, October 2006.
		When Steve entered the “studio” and music of the mythical group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) in Rome in 1968 it was as if the entire Mississippi Delta had washed in on us.
	thescore.blogs.nytimes.com /author/acurran (1034 words)

	Alvin Curran: Beginner's Guide
		The work culminates in the slow emergence of John Cage's voice, based on fragmented samples of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1988/89).
		ALVIN CURRAN (New York City/Oakland/Rome) makes music with all means, anywhere, and for all occasions.
		From rarefied string quartets to blaring ship-horn concerts to underground sound-installations; from computerized ram's horns to MIDI grand pianos to international simulcasts -- these are his natural laboratories.
	www.somewhere.org /NAR/work_excerpts/curran/main.htm (0 words)

	Waxidermy » Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari
		This 1979 record was the fourth release of six on the Italian Ananda label, co-founded in 1976 by Alvin Curran, Roberto Laneri and Giacinto Sclesi.
		Curran explains that each piece is about 2 hours long in concert and is a blend of conventional instruments, electronics and voice with taped soundscapes.
		The musical form is 'a structured improvisation where the the tapes determine the form but the with live content varying from performance to performance'.
	waxidermy.com /2006/01/27/alvin-curran-fiori-chiari (262 words)

	Computer Instrument for Live Performance, desinged for Alvin Curran
		Composer Alvin Curran has been performing live with electronic instruments for decades.
		Alvin had also developed sophisticated sampler instruments that he was playing with AKAI samplers.
		Alvin performed with this instrument throughout the summer of 2002 while on tour in Europe.
	www.cnmat.berkeley.edu /~ali/documents/alvin-mama.html (288 words)

	CDeMUSIC: Alvin Curran
		Curran has composed nearly 100 eclectic works featuring a range between taped/sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordion and chorus.
		Curran is also author of many articles and writings.
		Alvin Curran is Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College
	www.cdemusic.org /artists/curran.html (182 words)

	Slought Foundation: "American Independents / Live Concert with Composer Alvin Curran" with Curran, Noamnesia, et al.
		As a democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental composer, Alvin Curran created the "Trans-Dada Express" while traveling in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, making music for every occasion with a variety of sounding phenomena.
		Whether in the form of intimate and well-known solo performances, or in the form of pure chamber music, experimental radio works, or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, Curran's compositions have demonstrated a commitment to research and recombinant invention and the restoration of dignity to his profession through non-commercial practice.
		Alvin Curran, one of the foremost American composers practicing today, has lived in Rome since the 1960’s.
	www.slought.org /content/11349 (749 words)

	Alvin Curran : Theme Park - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Besides the technical difficulties of reducing a piece that was intended for four players to one, Alvin Curran threw in a few other oddities, including the purchase of a six-pack of turkey drumsticks to give the low end a completely unique sound.
		Winant does an excellent job in executing this piece, which at nearly 33 minutes is a trial of endurance for the listener and most certainly a trial of endurance for the performer, given its frantic pace.
		That piece is paired with a shorter one: "Charlie's Park," which is a tribute to Charlie Parker, and, as such, achieves an appropriate level of chaos, with saxophones blurring into a wall of noise.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,377530,00.html (261 words)

	Alvin Curran : Toto Angelica - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		At the turn of the millennium, Alvin Curran developed a number of projects around the idea of sampling the recorded history of new music festivals to create large-scale tribute works.
		Toto Angelica belongs to this series, although the music included here has gone a long way from Curran's performance of it at the tenth edition of the Angelica Festival, in 2001.
		Toto Angelica is not a restful listen by any means, and it often threatens to tumble into a random hodgepodge, but it has its interesting moments.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3336079,00.html (486 words)

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