Howard the founder and editor-in-chief of electro-music.com"electro-music.com , a site dedicated to experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music.General backgroundHoward Moscovitz has been involved in electronic music since 1967
when he started making tape music using a short wave radio as a sound
source. He received his Bachelors of Music degree with a major in
Theory and Composition in 1970 at Jacksonville University. Jacksonville
was one of the first colleges to have one of the new Moog Modular Synthesizers.
In 1969 he studied Musique Concete with Samuel Dolan at the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Howard went on to study with Robert
Ashley at The Mills College Center of Contemporary Music in Oakland,
California. There, he received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1972. He
also studied Computer Music at Stanford University with Leland Smith,
John Chowning, and Jean Claude Risset.
Never satisfied with
commercially available musical instruments, Howard began designing
his own while still a grad student at Mill College. After working with
his mentor, Stanley Lunetta, designing some of the very first digital
synthesizers, Howard worked with Donald Buchla on the infamous Electric
Symphony Orchestra which gave its one and only performance in 1974
at Berkeley, California. He has designed several unique electronic
instruments, including signal processors and sequencers. Some of these
were manufactured by Electronic Music Associates in the 1970's, and are
highly desired today among collectors.
Howard earned a Masters in
Electrical Engineering degree at the University of California at Berkeley
in 1981 and moved to Pennsylvania to work at Bell Laboratories. There, he
was on the design team which developed the first Digital Signal Processor
(DSP) chip. These chips are now found at the heart of virtually every
electronic musical instrument or signal processor in use today.
He retired from corporate America in 2002 and is now devoting his time to
composing and music performance. In 2003 he founded
electro-music.com
an interactive web site dedicated to furthering the art of electronic music. electro-music.com was received a Growing With Technology award from Cisco Systems in 2005. Howard has been the co-chair of two international electro-music conferences held in Philadelphia in June of 2005 and 2006.
His music has been performed extensively in the United States,
Canada and Europe. He has won several awards for his music, including the
Elizabeth Crowley Mills Award for Excellence in Music Composition. Aside
from synthesizers, Howard plays the Piano and the Banjo. He is a member of the electronic chamber music group Xeroid-Entity.
I rarely read and/or respond to messages here on myspace.com because most are pleas to visit someone's site. You can reach me on electro-music.com and there is where you'll find some of my music posted. I don't mean to diss myspace.com, but it's a bit too noisy for me.
