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Dary John Mizelle (born June 14, 1940 in Stillwater,
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) is an American
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classical and
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music.


Life and career

Mizelle studied
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(B.A.
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) as well as
composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...
(M.A.
University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
, Ph.D.
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) and while at U.C. Davis participated in the New Music Ensemble (a pioneering free improvisation group that dispensed with scores). He was an original member of the group that founded Source: Music of the Avant Garde magazine. His mentors include:
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, Richard Swift, Jerome Rosen,
Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...
,
David Tudor David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan ...
,
Roger Reynolds Roger Lee Reynolds (born July 18, 1934) is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds with those newly enabled by t ...
,
Robert Erickson Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 – April 24, 1997) was an American composer. Education Erickson was born in Marquette, Michigan. He studied with Ernst Krenek from 1936 to 1947: "I had already studied—and abandoned—the twelve tone sy ...
,
Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
, and
Kenneth Gaburo Kenneth Louis Gaburo (July 5, 1926 – January 26, 1993) was an American composer. Life Gaburo was born in Somerville, New Jersey. He served as a professor of music at the University of Illinois, the University of California, San Diego, and the Un ...
. His music involves mastery of instrumental, electronic and vocal resources as well as his own performance on several different instruments and voice. He works in many different genres and media. His SPANDA project consists of thirteen days of music with a coherent macrostructure, which includes music theater, opera, orchestra works, choral works, electronic music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal music as well as combinations and integrations of all these. A prolific composer with works in all media, he has over 450 compositions and 40 jazz tunes. He refers to his music as "multidimensional" in scope and practices his musical art in multiple tuning systems ("macrotonality") and simultaneous tonal, modal and atonal systems ("polyatonality") as well as multiple rhythmic systems (systemic polyrhythm). His electronic music uses the techniques he refers to as "microsynthesis" (mixing of very short - less than 50 millisecond - elements of different sonic energy components) and "isomorphic synthesis" (the compression of musical macrostructure to the level of waveforms) as well as more conventional techniques such as additive synthesis, granular synthesis and transformation of acoustical sounds. He has held academic appointments at
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,
Oberlin Conservatory of Music The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of ...
where he was head of the Technology In Music And Related Arts (TIMARA) program, and
State University of New York at Purchase The State University of New York at Purchase (commonly Purchase College or SUNY Purchase) is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was fo ...
where he was Chair of the Composition Program. He makes his home in
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since 1979.


List of works

''Piano Music'' * Variations on a Tone Row (1963) * Piano Opus (1966) * In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky (1971) * TRANSFORMS for piano (1975–79) * Three Easy Pieces (1980–93) * I Was Standing Quite Close to Process (1991-2) * Autumnal Equinox (1998) * ZNV (1998) * Kitamidorigaoka (1999) * Zach’s New Blues (2001) * Fingers on Keys-New Music for Piano Students (2003) * On Gaku (2005) * Piano Concerto Number One—Winterscape * Piano Concerto Number Two—Consciousness * Fantasy I (2011) * Fantasy II (2012) * Sonatas I-IX (1964-2012)


Discography

*''Soundscape: Collected Works of Dary John Mizelle Vol. 1'' (2000). Furious Artisans FACD6801. Featuring: #''Metalsong II'' #''Soundscape'' #''Pi/Grace'' #''Samadhi'' *''Transmutations and metamorphosis'' (2004). Equilibrium EQ67. Featuring: #''Transmutations and metamorphoses'' *''Nataraja Records'' (2006). Featuring: #''SPANDA Symphonies of Sound IV : I Was Standing Quite Close to Process'' *''Transforms: Collected Works of Dary John Mizelle Vol. 2''. performed by Laurie Hudicek. Furious Artisans. Featuring: #''Transforms for Piano (14 of 34)''


Further reading

Kyle Gann. “Calm Within Chaos” (Dary John Mizelle, Robert Ashley). ''Village Voice''. November 22, 1988 (Vol. XXXIII No. 47, p. 86).


References


External links


Dary John Mizelle homepage
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