Lawrence Chandler is an American composer, musician, producer and artist living in

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. He is best known for his work as a founding member of the band Bowery Electric.

Biography

Following Bowery Electric's final tour in 2000 Chandler took a hiatus during which time he studied composition privately with La Monte Young and

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, with Conrad Cummings at

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, worked for Philip Glass and completed a Master of Music in Composition from

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. He returned in 2009 with ''Everybody Here Is Fine'', commissioned for Make Music New York and premiered at The Bell House, Brooklyn on 21 June 2009. Subsequent works include ''Music for Rock Ensemble'', commissioned for "50 Years of Minimalism", premiered by Katia and Marielle Labèque, Chandler and ensemble at

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, London on 26 November 2011 and ''The Tuning of the World'', a realisation of his evolving 24-hour, 24 part, sustained tone composition, for octet, with tuned sine wave generators, released by Untitled Recordings on 1 March 2012. In 2013 he formed Happy Families with his partner Lucia Rivero.

Other musical activities

*''Dream House'' (1994–1996, 2008), monitor, light and sound installation by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela * Experimental Audio Research (EAR) (1996), collaboration with Pete Kember,

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and others, live performance at Westbeth Theater Center, New York on 3 September 1996 *''Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass'' by Brooklyn Rider (2008), assistant engineer, The Looking Glass Studio, New York *''Philip Glass Soundtracks'' by

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(2008), assisted, The Looking Glass Studio, New York *

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''Basket Rondo'' World Premiere (2007), live sound,

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, New York *Deep Listening (2009), workshop with

, Dartington International Summer School, near Totnes
Perfect Sound Forever
(2017), guest DJ, NTS Radio, London on 18 October 2017

References

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