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c.t. anderson

a vase of flowers on a piano.

About Me




c.t. anderson (Casey Anderson) is a composer, electronic musician, improviser, and experimental musician. anderson’s predominant interests lie in repetitive and/or static music and the psycho-acoustic properties therein. His electronic work investigates live interactive processes, with or without performers, and predominantly deals with physical acoustics and the possible compositional exploration of acoustics, reverberation, and resonance. anderson is currently pursuing his MFA in Music Composition at California Institute of the Arts, where he primarily studies with Mark Trayle, Ulrich Krieger, Michael Pisaro, and Art Jarvinen.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/5/2005
Band Website: ctandersonmusic.com (under construction).
Band Members: co-conspirators:

randy pingrey (trombone).
tom wincek (laptop, rhodes).
eric lee (drums, objects).
shawn lau (guitar).

brad cook (electronics/bass).
joe westerland (drums).
phil cook (piano).
justin vernon (guitar, effects).
mike contezac (guitar).
john dehaven (trumpet).

etc.
Influences: coffee. whiskey.

john luther adams, louis andriessen, art ensemble of chicago, robert ashley, albert ayler, bach, bjork, john bischoff, john cage, cornelius cardew, rhys chatham, james chance and the contortions, ornette coleman, collections of colonies of bees, tony conrad, dna, doseone, arnold dreyblatt, julius eastman, emotional joystick, brian eno, morton feldman, bill frisell, cm von hausswolff, art jarvinen, jazkamer, tom johnson, jason lescalleet, alvin lucier, meredith monk, toshimaru nakamura, NEU!, phill niblock, nmperign, charlemagne palestine, evan parker, harry partch, eliane radigue, steve reich, terry riley, david rosenboom, mikel rouse, keith rowe, erik satie, wadada leo smith, sonic youth, sunn O))), james tenney, tortoise, mark trayle, tom waits, ralf wehowsky, wilco, john zorn.

david lynch. jean luc godard. frederico fellini.

jasper johns. mark rothko. marcel duchamp. ellsworth kelly. ad reinhardt. sol lewitt.

beards.
Sounds Like: "they'll say that all you knew was family and school,
and that you learned about the world from books.
i say your books thrust you into life, because from
them you learned to unlearn," ("tout va bien," godard).

"i have nothing to say, and i am saying it" (john cage).
Record Label: none.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new music: carry the water from the bottom of the ocean

carry the water from the bottom of the ocean, for mixed ensemble, written for the bang on a can summer music festival.personnel:kate campbell, pianosean conway, didgeridoo and trumpetgreg chudzik, bas...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:03:00 PST

bill dixon

the wire recently ran an interview with the wonderful bill dixon, and posted the audio recording from said interview (streaming) onto their website.listen here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/1126/...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:01:00 PST

the beggar collective

my improv ensemble, the beggar collective (myself on saxophone, scott cazan on electronics, aakaash israni on bass, and qasim naqvi on drums), finally finished the preliminary mix on our album (which ...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:32:00 PST

safehousesafe (version 1)

new music up:"safehousesafe (version 1)." two-track no input mixing board algorithmically rewritten in supercollider. im currently trying to implement this as a live system, so newer versions are in d...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:17:00 PST

david tudor

im looking for as much information regarding david tudor's working methodologies, both technical and otherwise, as possible. though i do not think anyone reads this who i could not direct the exact sa...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:16:00 PST

upcoming things...

1. website. nothing is currently up, but things will be up here in the future: www.ctandersonmusic.com2. im writing a mixed ensemble piece for the bang on a can summer music festival. its for bass cla...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Sun, 25 May 2008 04:51:00 PST

6 guitars...out today...

"6 guitars," a piece that i did some collaborative work on (involving tuning system design and structural/formal elements) with the wonderful collections of colonies of bees, is out today as volume on...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:20:00 PST

new music

this piece is the first in a collection of text-pieces, collectively entitled "exchange symmetry as cultural model for these our withering years (fades/cross-fades)." this is "fades/cross-fades 1" (i ...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:09:00 PST

upcoming things...

1. as "this is how we inhabit space" is up and running (and has been altered/refined...and will continue to be refined as it is performed more often), im trying to book at least two more shows to do i...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

current listening

yoshi wada-lament for the rise and fall of the elephantine crocodilemorton feldman-patterns in a chromatic fieldcluster-IIthe hubjon mueller-metalsjon mueller and tim catlin-plates and wiresphill nibl...
Posted by c.t. anderson on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:42:00 PST