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'''Warren Burt''' (born 10 October 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music. Burt often employs elements of improvisation, microtonality, humor, live interaction, and lo-fi electronic techniques into his music. Warren Burt attended SUNY Albany (BA, 1971) and UC San Diego (MA, 1975) before moving to Australia in 1975. | {{Wikipedia|Warren Burt}} | ||
'''Warren Burt''' (born 10 October 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music. Burt often employs elements of improvisation, [[microtonal|microtonality]], humor, live interaction, and lo-fi electronic techniques into his music. | |||
Warren Burt attended SUNY Albany (BA, 1971) and UC San Diego (MA, 1975) before moving to Australia in 1975. | |||
In 1986 he won the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. | In 1986 he won the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. | ||
Currently, he is a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, where he recently completed a Ph.D. thesis, "Algorithms, Microtonality, Performance: Eleven Musical Compositions". | Currently, he is a research fellow at the University of Wollongong, where he recently completed a Ph.D. thesis, "''Algorithms, Microtonality, Performance: Eleven Musical Compositions''". | ||
==Further reading== | == Further reading == | ||
*Bandt, Ros. ''Sound Sculpture: Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian Artworks.'' Sydney: Fine Art Publishing, 2001. | *Bandt, Ros. ''Sound Sculpture: Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian Artworks.'' Sydney: Fine Art Publishing, 2001. | ||
*Burt, Warren. ''Aardvarks IV: A Real-time Electronic Music Performance Machine.'' MM thesis, University of California San Diego, 1975. | |||
*Burt, Warren. | *Burt, Warren. ''Algorithms, Microtonality, Performance: Eleven Musical Compositions.'' Ph.D. thesis, University of Wollongong, 2007. | ||
*Burt, Warren. ''Interactive Improvisations With Electronic Music Systems.'' Sounds Australian 32 (1992): 41-44. | |||
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*Jenkins, John. ''22 Contemporary Australian Composers.'' Melbourne: NMA Publications, 1988. | *Jenkins, John. ''22 Contemporary Australian Composers.'' Melbourne: NMA Publications, 1988. | ||
*Zurbrugg, Nicholas. ''Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory.'' Commentary by Warren Burt. Australia: G+B Arts International, 2000. | *Zurbrugg, Nicholas. ''Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory.'' Commentary by Warren Burt. Australia: G+B Arts International, 2000. | ||
==External links== | == External links == | ||
* | * [http://www.warrenburt.com/ Official website] | ||
* [https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/burt-warren Australian Music Centre: Warren Burt] | |||
* | * [http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/22CAC/burt.html Warren Burt bio] from John Jenkins, 22 Contemporary Australian Composers | ||
* [http://chcmctapes.tumblr.com/ Audio-interview with Warren Burt] on the Clifton Hill Community Centre Tapes website | |||
*[[ | == See also == | ||
* [[Software]] | |||
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