Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom "digital music."
Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music that incorporates elements from nearly every era: a reel-to-reel tape machine, a selection of small "jerry-rigged" / "circuit-bent" battery-powered sound-producing boxes, an analog modular synthesizer, an early "consumer" home-computer, and at the core; a contemporary computer running a custom-built Max-MSP based modular system that both controls these elements and acts as a central conduit into which their sounds are captured/collected, processed, then diffused to up to eight separate channels/speakers/amplifiers.
He is also, at present, composing an as-of-yet untitled piece for Egyptian Oud, Serge and Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizers, and computer control/processing. It is his first through-composed long-form work.
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Keith, 33, lives in Somerville, MA, USA with Robyn "Petra-Pixm" Belair and their child; a Korat named "Dribcots."
He has been known to dabble in "virtuoso" "electronic dance music" under many stage names/pseudonyms, most notably Hrvatski (but also Gai/Jin, ASCIII, Anonymous, Assassassinator X, The Superlatives, etc...).
His current (05/06) favorite albums are ::
Jon Appleton & Don Cherry "Human Music" (Flying Dutchman FDS-121) 1970
Pierre Henry "Mise en Musique du Corticalart de Roger Lafosse" (Philips 6521 022) 1971
Ã…kos Rozmann "Images of the Dream and Death" (Phono Suecia PS 27) 1974-1977 / 1990
Dariush Dolat-Shahi "Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar" (Folkways FTS 37464) 1985
Pink Floyd "1967: The First 3 Singles" (EMI M31001) 1997
He loves to travel. He hates to cook.
recent recordings:
all of the above, plus approximately 1200 other cherry-picked electronic & experimental music titles are available directly from kfw via his mail-order record shop, mimaroglu music sales :
http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com
