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Amar Chaudhary

I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!

About Me

AQUATIC
A CD of original music
by Amar Chaudhary
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Amar Chaudhary is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, as well as a developer of advanced software for sound synthesis and music composition. Amar studied composition first with Ruth Schonthal at the Westchester Conservatory of Music in New York from 1983 to 1991, and then at Yale University from 1991 to 1995. Amar had his music performed internationally and has received several honors for his musical work, including a 1992 premier of his clarinet quartet Conversational Impromptu at Weill Recital Hall in New York and the 1990 NGCSA Young Composers Award for Earth Songs.

Amar received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. While at Berkeley, Amar was a researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and developed advanced software for music composition and performance, including Open Sound Edit, an advanced 3D graphical editor for sound representations and Open Sound World, a programming environment for real-time music and audio applications.

Amar remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance. He is also interested in the use of folk instruments and toy instruments in electro-acoustic music. His first solo album, Aquatic, was released in 2005.

Please visit my website for more music, including full length tracks!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Website: amar-music.info
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Influences: John Cage, Xenakis, Stockhausen. Ruth Schonthal, Bela Bartok, The Beatles. Bird, Dizzy, Ornette, Coltraine, Herbie. Indian classical and folk music. Squarepusher, the Beastie Boys. The bargian CD bin at Amoeba records in Berkeley. Yale University, E-MU Systems. Robert Moog. Salvador Dalí, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miro, M.C.Escher. My family. My cat. My pain and triumph. Every concert I attend.
Sounds Like: Why not hear for yourself?
Record Label: Herman and Sherman
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour kick-off

Yesterday was the "kick-off" performance for the tour of Polly Moller and Company, at 1510 8th Street in Oakland.It was a good show, both the solo set and our group performance afterwards - as a trio ...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:16:00 PST

"Trailer" for Obama NYC Rally

Watch this "movie trailer" for Barack Obama's rally last week in New York: The rally has come again, but I think it's worth seeing, and if you want to find out more about the music (and why I...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:08:00 PST

Where's CatSynth?

We're in day five of CatSynth being down due to the fact that our ISP neglected to renew our parent domain name ptank.com. This actually messes up everything for me, not just CatSynth, but also my ma...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:29:00 PST

Dona Nobis Pacem


Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:11:00 PST

RPM 2007: Getting ready to begin...

Here's the first entry from my blog documenting my participation in the RPM Challenge to conceive and record an album within the 28 days of February:Well, it's the eve of RPM 2007. I have taken the or...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

Guess the electronics at catsynth

Hi all- I am hosting a "Guess the electronics" game at my main blog CatSynth.Simply listen to each of the challenges below and leave a comment on how you think each was one created. You can also take...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:04:00 PST

catsynth.com launched

Check out my new "real" blog at CatSynth.com.Cats, electronic music, art, opinion - what else does one need?...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:29:00 PST

Amar at iTunes!

The tracks from my CD Aquatic are now available on iTunes!  Click here to download now. Now people who like Proportional Fish or Black Boxes and Springtime don't have to bother paying for the oth...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:54:00 PST

831 plays

My music has been streamed 831 times on MusicNet-supplied internet streams (radio, etc.) during the last quarter.  Woohoo!  Not a lot to show for it at 2 cents a pop, but still...831 is our ...
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST

Buy my CD, dammit!

Available at http://www.cdbaby.com/amarmusic or direct from my website http://www.amar-music.info.
Posted by Amar Chaudhary on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:50:00 PST