PENG ZHUANG - THE CENTAURS 8 - LIVE AT YUNCAI CAFE SHANGHAI - DECEMBER 11 2015

// UNFORTUNATELY THE RECORDING IS NOT THE GREATEST // THE CENTAURS Episode 8: Carl Stone With Support from Peng Zhuang and SoundSpade TRACK 1 - PENG ZHUANG TRACK 2 - SOUNDSPADE TRACK 3 - CARL STONE Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan. Stone utilizes a laptop computer as his primary instrument and his works often feature very slowly developing manipulations of samples of acoustic music, speech, or other sounds. Because of this, as well as his preference for tonal melodic and harmonic materials similar to those used in popular musics, Stone's work has been associated with the movement known as minimalism. Date: Friday, December 11th, 2015 Venue: YunCai Cafe Shanghai