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Larry Austin

Larry Austin (1939-2018 )wass an American composer born in Duncan, Oklahoma, most widely recognized for his work involving electronics and computer music. Austin was also a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant-Garde. Austin learned electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Center (1965–66) and computer music at Stanford University (1969), and was closely associated with composers John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and David Tudor in California.

Larry Austin (1939-2018 )wass an American composer born in Duncan, Oklahoma, most widely recognized for his work involving electronics and computer music. Austin was also a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant-Garde. Austin learned electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Center (1965–66) and computer music at Stanford University (1969), and was closely associated with composers John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and David Tudor in California.

Hybrid Musics
Larry Austin (1930–2018), thirteen years Hunt’s senior, was a key interlocutor for the composer. The two met during Austin’s term as editorial director of the magazine Source: Music of the Avant Garde and both had studied music at the University of North Texas. Following stints at the University of California, Davis, and the University of South Florida, Austin returned to UNT as professor in 1976 and took over its electronic music studio, the Center for Electronic Music and Intermedia. When Hunt…
Source Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973 (Book)
*2023 stock* The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, Source documented crucial changes in performance practice an…
Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986
An incredible set of vinyl reissues explores the unfolding sonic fiction of Texan composer Jerry Hunt and others affiliated with his Irida label.
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