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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Allen Strange
Leonardo Book Series committee member
| Allen Strange 6859 Hidden Cove Road Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Email: astrange@bainbridge.net |
Involved with music technology since the middle 1960s, Allen Strange
has remained active as a composer, performer, author and educator. In
1972 his text, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controlsappeared as the first comprehensive work on analog music synthesis.
After several editions the text still remains a classic reference and guide
for studio synthesis. A student of Pauline Oliveros and Harry Partch,
Strange has worked in a variety media ranging from purely electronic
works, music for live-electronic performance, multi-media, chamber,
orchestral, choral and opera to music for the films and theater. With
his wife, Patricia, he co- founded two electronic music ensembles:
BIOME, a pioneering live-electronic music ensemble with Frank
McCarty in 1969 and The Electric Weasel Ensemble with synthesizer
designer Donald Buchla in 1976. Both ensembles have toured
internationally and the Stranges have also concertized as a duo
composer/performer team. Allen Strange has been Visiting Scholar at
the Computer Center for Research in Music Acoustics (CCRMA) at
Stanford University and guest composer at California Institute for
the Arts, the Hochschüller für Musik, Stuttgart,
Germany, the Tempo Reale studios, Florence, Italy and the Labortorio
Informatica in Guanajuato, Mexico. From 1994 through 1997 Strange
served as the president of the International Computer Music Association,
an organization co-hosting the annual International Computer Music
Conferences. Strange's music has been recorded
and performed in Europe, Canada, South Africa, South America, Korea,
China, Japan and throughout the United States. Allen Strange was
the 1996 Colin McMillan Collegiate Scholar at Eastern New Mexico
University, and visiting composer at the University of Oregon in Eugene
and Bowling Green University in Ohio and guest composer at the LIPM
Studios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In November of 1996 he was guest
composer at the EMF96 Festival in Bratislava and Visiting Composer at
the Prague Conservatory of Music. In the fall of 2000 he and his wife
Patricia were visiting Artists at the University of Arizona.
Professor Emeritus from San Jose State University, Strange founded the electro-acoustic music program and has served as coordinator of both the Composition and Electro-Acoustic Music Programs. His academic honors include the SJSU 1989 Presidential Scholar Award, Performance and Service awards for Exceptional Professional Attainment and Exemplary Service, a 1996 Special Presidential Recognition Award and a 2000 Institute of Teaching and Leaning Fellowship. With his wife he has co-written The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques (Scarecrow Press, 2001). Strange now lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington’s Puget Sound working as an independent composer. Other biographical information may be found in recent editions of Groves Encyclopedia of American Composers and the Harvard Encyclopedia of Music. | |
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