Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky (b. 1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. A member of the Frog Peak Music collective, he co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom. He has an album of mensuration canons, Four-Voice Canons, and he has also served as co-producer of Asmat Dream: New Music Indonesia, Vol. 1 with his wife, composer Jody Diamond. He is the brother of novelist Steven Polansky. His notable students include Jin Hi Kim.
Larry Polansky (b. 1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. A member of the Frog Peak Music collective, he co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom. He has an album of mensuration canons, Four-Voice Canons, and he has also served as co-producer of Asmat Dream: New Music Indonesia, Vol. 1 with his wife, composer Jody Diamond. He is the brother of novelist Steven Polansky. His notable students include Jin Hi Kim.
American Lament
With Folksong Distortions, Pauwels and Van der Aacreate a journey of lament through the soul of times gone by. Their radical renditions of works by Larry Polansky and Christopher Trapani do not distort the more upbeat rhythm and tradition of folk son…
6 Pieces for Gamelan Slendro
For this recording project, the fearless French musical collective ensemble 0 (pronounced “zero”) began a new kind of collaboration with the Swiss percussion ensemble Eklekto and Gamelan Oksitan — this last the traditional Javanese ensemble of gongs …
These Are the Generations
The title of this recording has multiple meanings for its composer, Larry Polansky (b 1954). These are the generations... is a translation of the Hebrew title for the second work on the program, Eleh Tol'd'ot, the first words of the thirty-fifth vers…
freeHorn
The form of both freeHorn and ii-v-i consists of a continuous modulation between three different harmonic series. freeHorn weaves together the live interaction of acoustic instruments and computer software written by Larry Polansky and Phil Burk. ii-…
Four Voice Canons
Over the past 25 years, Larry Polansky has been composing a series of fascinating mensuration canons (a formal concept dating back to the Renaissance) that run a sonic gamut from wildly boisterous (#6) to serenely introverted (#17, Guitar Canon). Thi…
Three Pieces for Two Pianos
This album exemplifies the depth to which Larry Polansky (b. 1954) explores and connects different musical ideas: In Three Pieces for Two Pianos and Old Paint, mathematical models and algorithmic processes are used to set folk songs; in k-toods, simp…
The World's Longest Melody
The World’s Longest Melody is a collection of experimental music written for the guitar by composer/guitarist Larry Polansky (b 1954). The guitar has long been an important component in Polansky’s musical explorations, and this CD has grown from the …
The theory of impossible melody
Jody Diamond, Chris Mann, voice; Phil Burk and Larry Polansky, live computers; Larry Polansky, fretless electric guitars; Robin Hayward, tubas. Among the lineages of knowledge that Larry Polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as …
Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations)
Larry Polansky, though known primarily for his work in the field of computer music, has produced a major addition to the keyboard literature, this massive theme-and-variations on Ruth Crawford Seeger’s arrangement of the folk song "Lonesome Road." In…