Carl Stone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East. A composer is a person who writes music. ... == == // Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ...

Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. In addition to his composition and performance schedule, he is a faculty member in the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, and located in Valencia, California, grants degrees in visual and performing arts. ... Morton Subotnick (born 1933) is an American composer of minimal electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch, and composed on the Buchla modular synthesizer which he helped to design. ... James Tenney (August 10, 1934 in Silver City, NM) is an American composer and influential music theorist. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Chukyo University is a university in Japan, with campuses in Nagoya and Toyota. ...

Stone utilizes a laptop computer as his primary instrument and his works often feature very slowly developing manipulations of samples of acoustic music, speech, or other sounds. Because of this, as well as his preference for tonal melodic and harmonic materials similar to those used in popular musics, Stone's work has been associated with the movement known as minimalism. He has collaborated frequently with Asian performers, particularly the pipa player Min Xiao-Fen. Minimalist music is a genre of classical music and experimental music named in the 1960s which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells, with subtle, gradual, and/or... The pipa 琵琶 (pinyin pípá) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. ... MIN XIAO-FEN Pipa player / vocalist Min Xiao-Fen, internationally known for her virtuosity and fluid style, is a prototype artist in this tradition. ...

Beginning in the early years of the 21st century, Stone began to compose more frequently for acoustic instruments and ensembles, completing a new work for the San Francisco Bay Area-based American Baroque.

Stone served as president of the American Music Center from 1992 to 1995, and was director of Meet the Composer/California from 1981 to 1997. He also served as music director of KPFK-FM in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1981. The American Music Center (AMC), founded in 1939 by a consortium led by the American composer Aaron Copland, is a national information, service, and support center for new U.S. music. ... KPFK (90. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...

For many years, Stone has divided his time between San Francisco and Japan. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

External link

Carl Stone official site