Composer Portraits presents Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky makes a rare visit to the Bay Area as the featured composer for Composer Portraits, a monthly series devoted to new music hosted by Sarah Cahill. Polansky performs "34 Chords: Christian Wolff in Hanover and Royalton" for electric guitar and will premiere some recent new pieces. This intimate evening also functions as a CD release party for Polansky's two new recordings on the Cold Blue (Four Voice Canons) and Artifact (Change) labels. He'll talk about the four voice canon project and offer an invitation for others to write their own ("DIY Canon"). He will also talk with longtime friend and collaborator Sarah Cahill about recent projects, ideas, and music.
Larry Polansky is a composer, performer, theorist, teacher and writer. For over ten years he worked at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, and was an active member of the Bay Area new music scene. For the last ten years he has been on the faculty at Dartmouth College, in the graduate computer music program there, and currently chairs the music department. He is one of the three authors of the computer music language HMSL, has worked on a number of other computer music projects, and is the co-director and co-founder of Frog Peak Music (A Composers' Collective).
presented by the Berkeley Arts Festival and the Jazzschool