Larry Austin

Composer Larry Austin writes: "I relish the experience and assimilation of all kinds of music and sound.  My pieces come into being, in fact, from a synthesis of these musics and sounds I hear and combine: hybrid musics.  Combining seemingly disparate compositional processes, sonic materials and mediums is the modeling process for much of my work.  Exploring new concepts, new materials and their interaction is essential to my work as a composer.  If my explorations take me to what turns out to be a rich vein of musical material, I experiment intensely with its creative potential.  The material derived instructs me in how the piece will form itself.  My technical explorations and experiments often develop from new and powerful music technology, not invoked for its own sake but at the service of my own musical imperatives that--it turns out--often cannot be achieved without advanced music technology to use as my modus operandi.   (More)