Clarence Barlow (also Klarenz, born 27 December 1945) is a
composer of
classical and
electroacoustic works.
Career
Barlow was one of the founders of Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln. In 1988 he was the director of music at the
International Computer Music Conference
The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
History
In 1986, the Inst ...
in Cologne. From 1990 to 1994, Barlow was the artistic director of the
Institute of Sonology, at the
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
The Royal Conservatoire ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Nether ...
, where he also taught in the composition department.
Barlow was the Corwin Endowed Chair and head of composition at
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...
’s Music Department from 2006 to 2019.
Compositional style and techniques
Barlow prefers traditional instrumental timbres to electronically synthesized ones because "they sound so much more alive and exciting". Although for this reason most of his works have been written for traditional instruments, he has frequently used the computer to generate the structures of his works. His comprehensive theory of tonality and metrics was first tested in the piano work ''Çoǧluotobüsişletmesi'' (1975–79). Spectral analysis and instrumental resynthesis of human speech has also played an important role in his compositions.
References
Sources
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Further reading
Clarence Barlow International Artist Database
* Clements, Dominy. 2009.
. ''MusicWeb International'' (9 February) (Accessed 22 January 2010).
* Manion, M
chael 2004.
Gimik: Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln r. V.. Cologne: Gimik e. V. (Accessed 22 January 2010).
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Toop, Richard
Richard Toop (1945 – 19 June 2017) was a British-Australian musicologist.
Toop was born in Chichester, England, in 1945. He studied at Hull University, where his teachers included Denis Arnold.
In 1973 he became Karlheinz Stockhausen's teac ...
. 2008. "Kulturelle Dissidenten: Die Stockhausen-Klasse der Jahre 1973 und 1974". ''MusikTexte: Zeitschrift für neue Musik'', no. 116 (February): 46–49.
External links
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Clarence Barlows Website at UCSB, Department of Music (archive from 17 December 2016, accessed 3 June 2020)
AUTOBUSK– Barlow's "Pitch and Rhythm Generator" software
at P-ART
by
Bob Gilmore
Bob Gilmore (6 June 1961 – 2 January 2015) was a musicologist, educator and keyboard player.
Born in Larne, Northern Ireland, he spent his early years in Carrickfergus. He studied music at York University, England, then at Queen's Univers ...
(2007) in ''Paris Transatlantic Magazine''
Interviewwith Musicweb International
feedback studio verlag (in German)
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1945 births
Living people
21st-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
University of Calcutta alumni
British classical composers
British male classical composers
British music educators
Utrecht University alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Royal Conservatory of The Hague faculty
Pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen
20th-century British composers
Musicians from Kolkata
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century British male musicians