Richard Lerman (Dec 5, 1944 in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, CA) is a
composer and
sound art
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...
ist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made
contact microphone
A contact microphone, also known as a piezo microphone, is a form of microphone that senses audio vibrations through contact with solid objects. Unlike normal air microphones, contact microphones are almost completely insensitive to air vibra ...
s of unusually small size,"
[Layne, Joslyn (2011).]
Richard Lerman
, ''AllMusic.com''; and Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, eds. (2001). ''All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music'', p.1103. . including, "
piezo disks and other
transducers
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another.
Transducers are often employed at the boundaries of automation, measurement, and control ...
".
[Richard Lerman]
, ''NewCollege.ASU.edu''. He studied with
Alvin Lucier,
Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He is known most for his work with electronics, many devices of which he builds himself, and for his performances on horn.
Biography
Mumma entered the Univer ...
, and
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 W ...
.
He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in Sound Art (
Video & Audio) for 1987-88. He also works in
film, having had a show at
MOMA,
and is currently working on advanced programming in DVD creation.
Lerman's work is often
site-specific. Pieces include ''Travelon Gamelon'', for amplified bicycles; ''A Seasonal Mapping of the Sonoran Desert'', which includes cactus needles plucked by rainfall; and the collaboration (with
Mona Higuchi) ''Threading History'', for which he recorded prison camp barbed wire.
In the 80s he lived in Boston and taught at
the Museum School
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusett ...
and the
Center for Advanced Visual Studies at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
.
[Hugh Marlais Davies and Apollohuis (1986). ''Echo: The Images of Sound'', p.92.]
Sources
External links
Richard Lerman's Site, ''West.ASU.edu''.
1944 births
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
21st-century American male musicians
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