Peter Gena
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Peter Gena (born 1947) is an American composer, performer, editor, and teacher of experimental and new music.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
A student of Morton Feldman and Lejaren Hiller at University at Buffalo, Gena received his PhD there.[3]
Career[edit]
From 1983-2017, Gena taught electronic and computer music, music and art history, computer programming, and interdisciplinary courses at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous to teaching at SAIC, Peter Gena was Assistant Professor in music theory and composition at the School of Music of Northwestern University.[4] At Northwestern, he co-directed the Computer Music Studio. His papers and scores are currently held at the University at Buffalo.[5][6]
Gena's music has for many years been devoted to compositions that investigate musical properties of DNA structures.[7][8][9][10][11]His work has been presented throughout the world, including presentations at The Art Students League of New York, Computing Music IV (Cologne 2006), Festival d'Automne (2004), Paris; Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Mini to the Max (2002), at the Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia; the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, (2002); Arte al Centro 2001, at Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; The National Gallery of China, Beijing (2001); Ars Electronica 1999, Linz; Aspekte Salzburg 1997; L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; San Juan University and the Poncé Museum of Art, Puerto Rico; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany; the Merkin Concert Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, and elsewhere.[12]
He has written and published prolifically, and with Jonathan Brent, he edited The John Cage Reader, later republished by Cage's publisher C.F. Peters. Other prominent publications by Gena include The Waltz Project (also by C.F. Peters), A Physiological Approach to DNA Music, and Apropos Sonification: A Broad View of Data As Music And Sound.[13][14][15]
In 1982, he brought the New Music America festival to Chicago and directed it. This festival was major achievement in contemporary and experimental music in the Midwest at the time, bringing artists such as Glenn Branca, Ruth Anderson, Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Robert Ashley, and many others.[4][16]
Peter Gena was awarded the Chevalier Dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Peter Gena". Ear Taxi Festival 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Peter Gena Collection of Papers and Scores 1950-2012, 1950-2012 - Blacklight". www.empireadc.org.
- ↑ "Lovely Artist: Peter Gena". www.lovely.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gann, Kyle (April 2, 1987). "Music Notes: Peter Gena makes a scene". Chicago Reader.
- ↑ https://www.empireadc.org/search/catalog/nbuumu_ubmu0085
- ↑ "Peter Gena – ISEA Symposium Archives". isea-archives.siggraph.org.
- ↑ "Peter Gena – ISEA Symposium Archives". isea-archives.siggraph.org.
- ↑ https://www.empireadc.org/search/catalog/nbuumu_ubmu0085
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/25652395
- ↑ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~aj/archives/docs/all/652.pdf
- ↑ https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/32/1/25/43735/Life-Music-The-Sonification-of-Proteins
- ↑ https://www.empireadc.org/search/catalog/nbuumu_ubmu0085
- ↑ "www.johncage2021.com".
- ↑ Gann, Kyle (April 2, 1987). "Music Notes: Peter Gena makes a scene". Chicago Reader.
- ↑ https://www.whozoo.org/mac/Music/Sources.htm
- ↑ "New Music America, 1982: Program No. 2". July 7, 1982 – via Internet Archive.
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