Paul DeMarinis

Paul DeMarinis is an American sound and media artist, born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. Working with electronic media since the early 1970s, he builds installations, performances and recordings around the history of communication technology, from phonographs and telegraphy to synthetic speech. He teaches art at Stanford University. Paul DeMarinis studied with Robert Ashley and Terry Riley at Mills College (MFA 1973). In the late 1970s he took part in the League of Automatic Music Composers, and he made Sound Fountain (1982) with David Behrman.