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Dan Harris

About Me

Dan Harris was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from The Eastman School of Music and Yale University. His principal clarinet teachers have been Jerome Stowell, Stanley Hasty, and Keith Wilson. His composition teachers include Mel Powell, Hall Overton, & Steve Reich. Mr. Harris has spent over thirty years as an orchestral clarinetist and freelance woodwind performer. For thirteen years he was the Director of the Electronic Music Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and professor in the areas of Composition and New Music performance. Since that time, in addition to his composition and performing activities, he has been employed as chief engineer at Sync Sound in New York City. Mr. Harris is the composer of over fifty works in all genres. He specializes in live electronic works and interactive theatrical systems. His large multi-media theater works, Visions, Windows,The Tropes & Ritagli, all received high critical acclaim. A television version of Visions was shown as a PBS special. In 1989 he was artist-in-residence at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale in Nice, France. While there, he developed special underwater sound systems and music instruments for Michel Redolfi's Sonic Waters in addition to fulfilling several commissions including his Symphony of Extension (1989) for bass clarinet with electronic extensions. He has continued to work with Michel Redolfi and recently (2006) gave performances of Redolfi's Liquid Cities at the Venice Biennale & Nuit Blanche in Paris.Since 1994 Mr. Harris has focused his performance activities exclusively on the bass clarinet and the bass clarinet with electronic & media extensions. He performs frequently in Europe with Vibrone, Trio Rare and in other improvisatory settings.For bookings or more information, contact: Dan Harris at [email protected].

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Member Since: 28/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.danielharrismusic.com
Band Members: Dan Harris Clarinets, Saxophones, Synth Programming, MAX/MSP/Jitter. Video interfaces, transducers. Specializes in solo performances with interactive electronics. Has worked with Michel Redolfi designing and building underwater instruments, audio mixers, etc for Michel Redolfi's underwater concerts. Has composed operas, chamber music, concertos, band and orchestra music.Plays in several acoustic improvisational ensembles, Trio Rare (piano, vibes, bass clarinet), Vibrone (vibes & bass clarinet), Tango Band, Navigation and various casual ensembles.
Influences: Performers: Stanley Hasty, Keith Wilson, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Wright, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Theolonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Gerry Mulligan,Pat MartinoComposers: Carlo Gesualdo, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Morton Feldman, Edgar Varese, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Eric Dolphy, Frank Zappa, Luc Ferrari, Mel Powel, Hall Overton, Sal Maritrano, Al FineAuthors: Homer, Dante Alighieri, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, William Gaddis, Lawrence Durrell, Italo Calvino, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Evan S. Connell, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Georges Perec, William S. BurroughsArtists: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Chuck Close, Christo, J.M.W. Turner, Alberto Giacometti, Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Chiam Sourtine, De Kooning, Dubuffet, Arshile GorkyFriends & Colleagues: Les Thimmig, Richard Stoltzman, Tom McKinley, Michel Redolfi, Patricio Villarroell, Alex Grillo, Michel Pascal, Michael Lowenstern, Henri BokAnd: Maureen Mulvihill-Beatrice mia, our pastel tiger Kid Stretch, and my father, a paragon.
Sounds Like: Avant-garde experimental improvisational music with sophisticated structures and electronic interactions
Record Label: Ben Clarone Music-Coterie Editions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Metaflam in Dormans & Reims France

September 3 & 6 I performed in a new production of Alex Grillo's oratorio, Metaflam. Based on texts by Nimrod, the pen name of Bena Djangrang, a poet and writer from Chad. Nimrod is presently in resid...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Paris Gigs 11/25-12/3/2007

Friends-I have posted a few clips from my week in Paris playing with Vibrone (Alex Grillo: vibes, Dan Harris: Bass Clarinet),Trio Rare (Dan Harris: Bass Clarinet, Alex Grillo: Vibes, Patricio Villarro...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:35:00 GMT