Ep. 16
Larry Austin was a composer of computer musics, electronic work, and, really, a bit of everything. Larry left this world 12/30/2018, but his memory lives on in both salient and important ways. Austin edited and helped to found Source: Music Of The Avant-Garde where basically every cool western musical composition idea, a lot of cool ideas about improvisation –don’t tell daddy, they even said they were influenced by… uh,oh, JAZZ!– and a whole smattering of moments on electronic circuits, design, politics, spirituality, and relationships were laid out in the back part of the 60s. Later Mr.Austin started the CDCM label to release lots of cool computer music from the inception of the form to present day. I learned a lot of what I know and what I use to make this podcast from the series, so check it out and steal my job! Austin’s Accidents remains a favorite of mine, and, to me, is every bit as interesting and generally, dare I say, good, as Cage’s and anyone else’s similar explorations from the time.
Monkey CE MI Monkey DO MI —cemi.music.unt.edu/larry-austin