Elliott Schwartz
Elliott Schwartz (1936-2016) was an American composer, born in Brooklyn, who taught at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from 1964. He studied at Columbia University and wrote orchestral, chamber and electronic music, later bringing chance, improvisation and theatre into his work. In Elevator Music groups of players sit on different floors of a building while the audience rides between them. He also wrote Electronic Music: A Listener's Guide. Schwartz's papers are held by the Library of Congress.
Paradigm / Algorithms I Versions I & IV / Signals (LP)
Four fantastic experimental pieces composed in 1968 for instruments and tape/electronics, including Foss' outstanding theatrical piece for percussionist-conductor, electric guitar and three other instruments capable of sustaining a sound and Hiller's…
Extended Piano
*2024 stock* Elliott Schwartz plays four of his compositions for solo piano and pre-recorded tape, a project that remains "a continuing attempt to enhance, expand, obscure, develop or otherwise modify the piano sonority and the act of piano performan…
Ant Farm
An incredible album of music, conjoining two different sonic aspects of Maine's Strangeness. Big Blood are well known to fanciers of contemporary sub-underground sounds. The duo of Colleen Kinsella andCaleb Mulkerin have been conjuring up rural-exper…