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Lou Cohen
Music
Note: CD 1 consists of 10 tracks, although
the packaging indicates 9 tracks. Track 10 contains
shape10.
Pogus is very pleased to announce the release of Music,
a 3 CD set of works by electronic music composer/performer Lou
Cohen.
This release is a fantastic overview of his works since
around 2003,
with over three hours of music. Most of these pieces were
composed by
means of algorithmic and stochastic processes, with emphasis
on
granular synthesis. There is a great deal of information
that Cohen
gives about his works and methods of composition. For this
information
on his methods and the pieces themselves please go to: jolc.net/musicsite/notes.
Lou Cohen uses Csound as his primary tool for realizing
compositions.
Csound is a well-known, open-source, programmable music
synthesizer.
Its antecedents (called "MUSIC", "MUSIC II", "MUSIC III",
... ) were
developed by Max Mathews at ATT Bell Labs starting
in the 1950s. "MUSIC 11" was written by Barry Vercoe
at the MIT Media Lab. Vercoe then rewrote this software and
renamed it
as Csound. Eventually Csound was given open-source status,
making it
freely available.
Cohen's compositions from 1960 to 1990 were written for a
range of
instrumental ensembles, and generally algorithmically
employed 12-tone
and serial techniques. A few of these pieces used open score
and chance
processes as well. Starting around 1990, Cohen switched to
composing
using computer-generated sounds and software-computed
structures. The
programmable synthesizer Csound
has been the primary tool for this work along with software
of his own design.
Lou Cohen has composed music since age 11. He studied
mathematics at
MIT, and has studied music privately. Composition teachers
include John
Cage, Ernst Levy and Alan Kemler. He studied harpsichord and
early
music performance practice with John Gibbons. He lives in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA.
In the early 1960s Cohen promoted new music in the Boston
area by
producing concerts in collaboration with Christian Wolff, in
which the
New York School was heavily represented. For a long time
afterwards
while working as a software engineer and product development
consultant
he composed in isolation. In April 2004 he produced his
first concert
in more than 40 years, in collaboration with the
electro-acoustic group
ONDA.
Since then he has appeared as a laptop improviser in
numerous concerts
in the Greater Boston area. The laptop software created by
Cohen
responds to movements of wiimote game controllers, and uses
Csound to
create sounds. Over the years he has performed with many
fine
musicians, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Christian
Wolff, Ken
Ueno, Tim Feeney, James Coleman, Lou Bunk, Joshua Jefferson,
Andrew
Eisenberg, Vic Rawlings, David Tudor, Jack Wright, Katt
Hernandez,
Forbes Graham, Paul Hoskin, and Andrea Pensado. His
collaborations with
video artist Bebe
Beard, and his own computer animations have been shown
in many galleries and film festivals around the world.
 Reviews
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21090
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Enzo Minarelli |
21089
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21088
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Yiorgis Sakellariou |
21087
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id m theft able |
21086
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Kasper T. Toeplitz |
21085
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Tom Hamilton |
21084
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David First |
21083
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Tomomi Adachi / Jaap Blonk / Owen F. Smith / Duane
Ingalls |
21082
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Marta Sainz &
If, Bwana |
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21080
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If, Bwana |
21079
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Ulrich Krieger |
21078
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Triple Point |
21077
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Robin Hayward |
21076
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Ron Nagorcka |
21075
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Secluded Bronte |
21074
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David Rosenboom |
21073
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Peter Batchelor |
| 21072 |
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Alvin Lucier |
| 21071 |
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Lou Cohen |
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Brian Chase |
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Jerry Hunt |
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If, Bwana |
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Jorge Antunes |
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Enzo Minarelli |
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Tensions At The Vanguard |
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Frances White |
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Noah Creshevsky |
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If,Bwana/Trio Scordatura |
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Nate Wooley |
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Leo Kupper |
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Pauline Oliveros/ Francisco López/Doug Van Nort/Jonas
Braasch |
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Philip Corner |
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Alvin Lucier |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Birds + Machines |
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Kiva |
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César Bolaños |
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Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos |
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Tom Hamilton/
Bruce Eisenbeil |
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Source Records 1-6 |
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Noah Creshevsky/ If,Bwana |
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Simon Wickham-Smith |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Annea Lockwood |
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Felix Werder |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Nick Didkovsky |
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Montreal Sound Matter |
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Anla Courtis |
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Crawling with Tarts |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Hans Otte |
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DIY Canons |
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Band/Myers |
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Chris Brown |
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Tom Johnson |
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Roger Reynolds |
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Trios - Collaboration |
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Beth Anderson |
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Hamilton, Silverton, Margolis |
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Warren Burt |
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Jorge Antunes |
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David Dunn |
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Roger Reynolds |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Pauline Oliveros |
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David Rosenboom |
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Ross Bolleter |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Leo Kupper |
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Robert Rutman |
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Matthew Ostrowski |
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various |
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Rune Linblad |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Pauline Oliveros |
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Rune Linblad |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Leo Kupper |
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various |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Trigger |
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Big City Orchestra |
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If,Bwana |
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Frog Peak Music |
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C.U.E. Records |
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Sound of Pig Cassettes |
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Ants (Italian Label) |
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Ned Rothenberg |
| HOMLER |
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Anna Homler |
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oaksmus (German Label) |
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Geoff Dugan |
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Anomalous Records |
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