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  PERSONAL
  PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
  EMPLOYMENT
  GRANTS, COMMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES
  COLLABORATIONS
  SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
  RECORDINGS OF COMPOSITIONS/PERFORMANCES
  SELECTED PERFORMANCES
 PUBLISHED WRITINGS
  SELECTED LECTURES/MEDIA BROADCASTS
  CURATING/ADVISING
  PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS


PERSONAL
Born September 9, 1953 in Mendota, Illinois.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Composition and improvisation, interactive electronic music, algorithmic composition, musical
instrument building and new instrumental resources, twentieth century performance practice, world music.

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EMPLOYMENT
2002-04 Head of the Music Department, Mills College.

1998 Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, Mills College Music Department

1997-98 Head of the Music Department, Mills College.

1992-98 Asst. Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.

1991-92 Visiting Asst. Professor of Music and Acting Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.

1988-91 Lecturer in Music and Technical Assistant, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College.

1985-92 Asst. Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, teaching Computer Arts and Electronic Music in the New Genres Dept.

1981-86 Piano tuner and technician.

1979-81 Computer technician and programmer, Creative Leisure Corporation, San Francisco.

1976-78 Music Co-ordinator, City of Palo Alto Arts Department (administration and programming of musical performance series at Palo Alto Cultural Center.)

1975 Teaching Assistant, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz Music Dept., for Music History and Ethnomusicology programs (directed seminars on West Javanese and North Indian music, and on Intonation Systems.)

1973-78 Private piano teacher in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties.
Education:

1985 M.F.A.Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland. Studied Computer Music with David Rosenboom.

1974 A.B. University of California/Santa Cruz with Honors in Music. Studied Composition and Electronic Music with William Brooks and Gordon Mumma.

1970 Kenwood Academy High School, Chicago, Illinois

1966-69 Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt Univ., private piano study with Robt. MacDowell.

1969-70 Berlin Hochschule für Musik , scholarship piano studies.

1959 -62 private piano study, Manila, Philippines
 

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GRANTS, COMMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES

2005 Commission from Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain for the composition of a new work for the "reacTable" , a novel electronic music instrument developed by the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The piece "TeleSon" was premiered at the opening for the ICMC 2005. View quickTime video of this performance..

2003 Haas Foundation Creative Work Fund Grant, with Guillermo Galindo, to create an audience-interactive performance entitled "Transmission Mission" outdoors at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, in collaboration with young Latino artists and produced by Galerîa de la Raza, San Francisco.

2003 Commission with Guillermo Galindo for a community interactive work as part of the "Transmissions" series, Reciprocal University for the Arts Project (RUAP), California State University Monterey Bay

2002 Artist-in-Residence, Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito California.

2002 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, commission with John Bischoff of the online article " "Indigenous to the Net, and for "Eternal Network Music", two online interactive network music pieces; both for the Crossfade site: www.sfmoma.org/crossfade.

1997 "Points of Presence" Research Grant and Performance, Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. A live performance linking musicians at Mills College, California Institute for the Arts, and ISA via the internet.

1996 Honorable Mention in Computer Music for "Talking Drum" interactive installation, Ars Electronica '96, Linz, Austria.

1996 San Francisco Art Commission, Market St. Art-In-Transit Program grant for performances of "Talking Drum" in collaboration with Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth.

1994 Irvine Foundation Faculty Course Development Grant, Mills College. Attended a course in Afro-Cuban Music at the National School of the Arts (ENA) in Havana, Cuba.

1990 Gerbode Foundation Composer's Grant ($25,000) for a new work for brass, percussion, and electronics, sponsored and produced by New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Premiered Sept. 1992.

1989 Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commission of a new work for the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Premiered June 1989.

1989 National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant, with The Hub and Ramon Sender, for the production of a poetry/music radio performance using electronic networks .

1988 Artist in Residence (June-August) STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam.

1986-90 California Arts Council Touring/Presenting Roster.

1983 Berkeley Symphony Orchestra commission of "Alternating Currents" for orchestra, soloists, and original electroacoustic instruments.


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COLLABORATIONS
"Transmissions" Audience-interactive, live radio performance series with composer Guillermo Galindo, using four low-power FM radio transmitters, computer music systems, and personal radio receivers.

" Fuzzybunny" Live electroacoustic improvisation trio including Chris Brown, Tim Perkis and Scot Gresham-Lancaster.

" The Hub" An ensemble that explored a new genre called "Computer Network Music", the six composer/performers of The Hub electronically coordinated the activity of their individual systems through a central microcomputer, "the hub" itself, as well as manually through ears,eyes, and hands. The Hub sought surprise through the lively and unpredictable responses of their systems, and instead of trying to eliminate the imperfect human performer, used the electronic tools available to enhance the social aspect of music making. The Hub is John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle, and Phil Stone.

" Glenn Spearman Double Trio"
Formed in 1992 by the joining of two trios, The Glenn Spearman Trio and Room,
the Double Trio worked in the free jazz tradition pioneered by such musicians as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman. It included Glenn Spearman, saxophone; Larry Ochs, saxophone; Chris Brown, piano and electronics; Lisle Ellis, bass; William Winant, drums and percussion; Donald Robinson, drums.

" Room" This ensemble was formed in 1984 to explore compositions that include improvisation and live/interactive electronics. It included Chris Brown, piano/electronics and composition, saxophonist/composer Larry Ochs (also a member of the Rova Saxophone Quartet), percussionist William Winant (of the Abel-Steinberg-Winant trio), and Scot Gresham-Lancaster, electronics.

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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS

2005 "Cut to Ribbons", for computer network ensemble.

2005 "TeleSon", for two "reacTables", connected via the internet.

2004 "Rogue Wave", for DJ, percussion, and electronics

2004 "Shuffle", for piano and interactive computer music system.

2004 "OverUndeRumba", for string quartet and four-channel tape

2004 "Transmission Mission", with Guillermo Galindo, live computer music with poetry for quadraphonic radio transmissions.

2003 "Retrospectacles", for piano and interactive computer processing.

2003 "Transmission Main Street", with Guillermo Galindo, live computer music quadraphonic radio transmissions.

2002 "Transmission Temescal", with Guillermo Galindo, for live computer music systems and quadraphonic radio transmissions.

2002 "Marking Time", computer music soundtrack for video installation by Johanna Poethig.

2002 "Transmision Naranja", with Guillermo Galindo, for live computer music systems and quadraphonic radio transmissions.

2001 "CloudStreams" and "Bellwethers", for computer network ensembles.

2001 "Invention #7 'Branches' ", for MIDI piano and interactive computer, percussion and turntablist.

2000 "Time Bomb: Four Poems by Mina Loy", for trombone and interactive computer.

2000 "Invention#6", for computer network ensemble.

1999 "Invention#5", for computer network ensemble.

1999 "knottyspine", for solo electronic keyboard and interactive computer.

1998-99 "Invention #4", in versions for four melody instruments and interactive computer network, and for piano solo.

1998-99 "Eternal Network Music", for interactive computers networked via the internet.

1998 "Waves", shakuhachi and interactive computer.

1997 "Inventions#1-3", solo keyboard and interactive computer.

1996 "Many Streams", for quartet of melody instruments and computer.

1995 "Talking Drum", interactive computer network ensemble and acoustic instruments.

1994 "Tenebrae", interactive electronics, violin, and quadraphonic spatialization system.

1993 "Flies", for violin, piano, percussion and interactive electronics.

1992 "Lava", hour-length piece for brass and percussion octet, and a computer controlled signal processing and quadraphonic spatialization system.

1992 "Wheelies", for computer network ensemble.

1990 "Chain Reaction", for Airdrums MIDI controller, piano/MIDI keyboard, tenor saxophone and computer.

1990 "Three To Two ", for sopranino saxophone, vibraphone, and electronic percussion.

1989-90 "Quartet with Shadows", for saxophone quartet and harmonizer.

1989 "Duo", for MIDI keyboard, computer controlled signal processors, and acoustic instrument improvisor.

1988 "Role'm", for computer network ensemble.

1987 "Snakecharmer", for soloist with interactive (computer-controlled) synthesizer.

1986 "Hall of Mirrors", for tenor saxophone, percussion, and piano (also exists as a solo for keyboard), with live interactive electronics.

1985 "Obedience School" (or "His Master's Voice"), for amplified soloist with live interactive electronics.

1985 "Iceberg ", for percussion and live electronics.

1984 "Post Mortem", for piano, percussion, saxophone (also exists in a version for piano solo) and digital delay.

1983 "Conjunction", for carrillon (or piano) and amplified rods.

1983 "Alternating Currents", for orchestra and three soloists.

1982 "Cobalt Blue", for saxophone and piano.

1981 "Alchemical Mobsters", songs with words by Michael Schippling, for tenor or soprano and mixed instruments.

1980 "The Wild Boys", text by W.S. Burroughs, for piano, voice, tape, and live electronics.

1980 "Curved Space Transit", amplified rods and stereo tape.

1979 "Insect Love", amplified rods on stereo tape.
1977 "Quay", piano solo.

1976 "Sparks", piano solo.

1976 "Prepositions", for bass flute.

1975 "Rhythms", for drums.

1975 "Chorale", for mixed instrumental ensemble.

1974 "Quickening 60:63 " 53 day performance, co-composed with Carl Fravel and performed March-April 1974 Santa Cruz, California by the composers, with many collaborators.


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RECORDINGS OF COMPOSITIONS/PERFORMANCES
(Listings not specifically described as "performance" will include compositions by Chris Brown.)
 
2005  "Rogue Wave", works for instruments and electronics, Tzadik Composer Series, CD.

2005 "Talking Drum", re-issue on Pogus Records of out-of-print 2001 release on Sonore, CD.

2005 "Thousand Oaks - Natto Quartet", more piano performances w/ Natto, 482 Music, CD.

2005 " Rova::Orkestrova:Electric Ascension", laptop performance, Atavistic, CD.

2003 "Headlands - Natto Quartet", extended piano improvisations with Philip Gelb, shakuhachi; Shoko Hikage, koto; and Tim Perkis, electronics, on 482 Music, CD.

2002 "Branches", recordings of "Invention#7", and "Alternating Currents", on Ecstatic Peace, LP.

2002 "Transmission Temescal", binaural recording of installation of 20 boomboxes and clock radios on the decks of the Artship, the Artship Recordings, disc 47.

2002 "Water", live electronics with Philip Gelb, shakuhachi, on "Visions: Performances form the EMIT series compilation CD.2001 "Talking Drum", binaural recordings of live electronic installations, and location recordings of traditional music and environmental soundscapes, Sonore, CD.

2001 "Oasis", opening track of a live computer music performance titled "knottyspine", on a compilation of music by composers from Mills College, including Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, and Alvin Curran, CD.

2001 "Talking Drum", binaural recordings of live network music installation/performances interspersed with soundscape recordings from around the world, Sonore, CD.

2001 "Fuzzybunny", live electronic improvisations with the trio by the same name which also includes Tim Perkis and Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Sonore, CD.

2000 "Hsu-Feng", live electronics performance with a sextet of John Zorn’s compositions, Tzadik, CD.

1999 "New Music: Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell", piano performances by Chris Brown, New Albion Records, CD.

1999 "Waves", composition and performance with Philip Gelb, shakuhachi on "between/waves", Sparkling Beatnik, CD.

1999 Glenn Spearman's "Blues for Falasha", piano performance with the Glenn Spearman Double Trio, Tzadik, CD.

1998 "Cellule 75", piano performance with William Winant, percussion of Luc Ferrari's composition, Tzadik, CD.

1998 "Non Stop Flight", electronic performance with The Hub on this live recording by the Deep Listening Band, Music & Arts, CD.

1997 Rova's 1995 Live Recording of John Coltrane's "Ascension", piano performance in large ensemble including the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Black Saint, CD.

1996 "Duets", by Chris Brown, with Tom Nunn, William Winant, Ikue Mori, and Tom Djll, Artifact Recordings, CD.

1996 Larry Ochs "The Secret Magritte", piano performance in ensemble including the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Marilyn Crispell, Barry Guy, Lisle Ellis, and William Winant, Black Saint, CD.

1995 "Lava" by Chris Brown, for brass, percussion and live electronics, Tzadik, CD.

1995 "Conductions #11" by Butch Morris, original instruments performance, New World, CD.

1995 "In C" by Terry Riley The 25th Anniversary Performance, keyboard performance, New Albion, CD.

1994 "Music from the CCM at Mills College: CDCM Computer Music Series, vol. 17", Centaur Records, CD.

1994 The Hub: "Wreckin' Ball", Computer Network Music, Artifact Recordings, CD.

1994 Glenn Spearman Double Trio: "Smokehouse", piano performance, Black Saint, CD.

1993 Glenn Spearman Double Trio: "Mystery Project", piano and electronics performance, Black Saint, CD.

1992 Room: "Hall of Mirrors", Music and Arts. CD.

1991 "The Virtuoso in the Computer Age -- I: CDCM Computer Music Series, vol. 10", piano performance, Centaur Records, CD

1989 "The Hub: Computer Network Music" Artifact Recordings, CD.

1989 "Snakecharmer" Live Electroacoustic Music by Chris Brown, Artifact Recordings, CD.

1989 "Room", Sound Aspects, CD.

1987 "Wayne Horvitz: This New Generation", original instruments performance, Elektra/Musician CDs, records, and tapes.

1980 "Earwig" with instrument builder Tom Nunn, cassette released by Essential Recordings, 16mm film by Eric Marin.

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SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2005 November   "The Hub", European tour, including: Club Paradox, Tilburg, Netherlands; and in Germany, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Open Systems Festival, Dortmund; Akademie of Fine Arts, Muenster; and Metropolis Cinema, Hamburg.

2005 November  Performances on piano, electronics, and laptop computer at the Music Unlimited Festival, Wels, Austria.   Collaborations with OrkestRova, and Larry Ochs, saxophone; Natsuki Tamura, trumpet; Le Quan Ninh, percussion.

2005 October "Transmission Polvo", sound installation w/ Guillermo Galindo, Polvo Gallery, Chicago.

2005 October   "Natto Quartet", New Music Circle, St. Louis, Missouri.  

2005 September   Collaborative performance on piano and electronics with Juan Orozco and Luis Negron, live-video, as part of Frischezelle Festival, Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany.

2005 September   Duo performance on piano and electronics with Frank Gratkowski, woodwinds. The Loft, Cologne, Germany.

2005 September   Piano performances in trio with Biggi Vinkeloe and Donald Robinson in Kungalv and Gothenburg, Sweden.   Also a solo electronics set at "Roda Sten", Gothenburg.

2005 September "TeleSon", premiere of commissioned work for two "reacTables" connected via the internet, for the opening ICMC2005, Barcelona, Spain.   The second reacTable was located in   Linz, Austria, and was part of Ars Electronic 2005.

2005 August  "Cooler in the Shade", piano and electronics duo with Tim Perkis, New York.

2005 August  "The Hub", SF Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco. 2005 June  "The Hub", Tesla, Podewils'sches Palais, Berlin, Germany.

2005 June   Laptop duo with Sergi Jorda, Montevideo, Marseille, France.

2005 March   "Ascension", laptop performance with OrkestRova, SF Jazz Festival, San Francisco.

2004 December   Piano and live electronics solo performance, Roulette, New York City.

2004 November   "The Hub", Dutch Electronic Art Festival ("DEAF"), Rotterdam, Netherlands.

2004 September "Natto Quartet" performance, Creative Music Guild, Community Music Center Portland, Oregon.

2004   August , "Shuffle" premiere performance at the "Sismo Festival", Sala Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico City.

2003 September "Retrospectacles", 50th birthday concert, SOMARTS Theater, San Francisco, with the WigBand and Fuzzybunny.

2003 June Piano and live electronics performance   with Ikue Mori and DJ Olive, Tonic, New York City, NY.

2003 May-June "Transmission Asparagus", interactive sound installation, Reynolds Art Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

2003 April "Transmission Main Street", live quadraphonic radio performance/installation of electronic music and spoken-word, a collaboration with youth from Salinas' "Second Chance" program, produced by RUAP , the Reciprocal University for the Arts Program of                              Cal State Monterey Bay, on Main St. in downtown Salinas, California.

2003 February Piano improvisations with Kazue Sawai, koto, and others, Mills College, Oakland.

2002 November Duo performance, piano and electronics, with Lisle Ellis, electronics and bass, Spruce St. Forum, San Diego, California.

2002 September "Transmission Temescal", with Guillermo Galindo, Mills College, Oakland, California.

2002 July "Marking Time", with Johanna Poethig, radio-sound/video installation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.

2002 May "Transmission Naranja", with Guillermo Galindo, Bienal de Radio, Mexico City, Mexico.

2001 November Fuzzybunny-Sonore tour, 9 concerts in cities including: Paris, Barcelona, Marseille, Toulouse, and Bourdeax.

2001 October "Networkshop", 15. Dresdener Tage der zeitgenoessischen Musik, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden; and "Net.Night - Musikmachen im Netzwerk", produced by Freunde Guter Musik, Staatsbank, Berlin. Live computer network music performances in collaboration with participants in network music workshops.

2001 May "Fuzzybunny", live performance as part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

2001 April Piano performance of music by Amy DeNio, with band including Amy DeNio, Fred Frith, Jonathan Segel, and Ches Smith, Mills College, Oakland.

2001 March "Invention #7", premiere performance, with William Winant and DJ Eddie Def, as part of the Other Minds Festival VII, San Francisco.

2001 Feb. "Invention #4" and "Invention #5", collaborative performances as part of "Indeterminacy, Intermedia, and Improvisation" series at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.

2000 Aug. "Invention #6", workshop performance at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Berlin, Germany.

2000 Jan. "TimeBomb", premiere performance with Abbie Conant, trombone, at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), University of California, Berkeley.

2000 Sept. "Simply Ballroom", live solo computer music performance, Center for Research in Computer Music (CRMA), Stanford University, Palo Alto.

1999 Nov. "Eternal Network Music", a concert of computer network music on the internet linking 14 live performers at 6 different locations (Mills College, California Institute of the Arts, Princeton University, Renssallaer Polytechnic Institute, Stetson University, and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe Germany). Part of the "net_condition - Art in the Online Universe"exhibition produced by ZKM, Karlsruhe.

1999 Sept. "Beyond 440 Hertz", a concert of music with experimental instruments with David Poyourow, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, produced by Villa Aurora and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

1999 June "Computer Network Music", live electronic music performance with Mike Berry, The Outpost, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1999 May "Talking Drum", Installation/Performance with ensemble including DJ Eddie Def at Battery Wallace, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.

1999 Apr. Tradewinds 8, "Waves" live performance accompanying dancer Eri Majima's "Water Dream", produced by Asian American Dance Performances.SOMARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco.

1999 Mar/Apr. Computer Network Music collaborative performances, Electronic Arts and Performance Series, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, New York; University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana; Oberlin College; and Grinnell College, Iowa.

1999 Feb.-Mar. "Old and New Soundpieces from the Bay Area", solo piano performance of music by Henry Cowell, Maggi Payne, Gordon Mumma, John Bischoff, Cheryl Leonard, Glenn Spearman, and Chris Brown. Performances venues included Spruce St. Forum, San Diego, North River Music Series at Greenwich House in NYC, Albert Shahinian Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, and Mills College Songlines Series.

1999 Feb. Network Music residency and concert at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.

1999 Jan. Duo performance with Phil Gelb at Salvador Dali Museum, Tampa, Flordida. Also a concert and network music workshop at Stetson University, Deland, Florida.

1998 Sept. "Hsu-Feng" by John Zorn, electronics performer in sextet of improvisors, Slim's, San Francisco.

1998 Aug. Live electronics performance with Fred Lonborg-Holm, cello and Jim O'Rourke, electronics at the Empty Bottle, Chicago.

1998 July "Waves", with Phil Gelb, Shakuhachi and Electronics concert at the World Shakuhachi Festival 1998, Boulder, Colorado.

1998 Mar. West Coast", PRIMe Foundation, Groningen, Holland. Solo, duo performances with Tom Nunn, and "Talking Drum" collaborative installation.

1997 Dec. Solo performance, Taller Cultural, Santiago de Cuba.

1997 Dec. "Inventions", solo performance, Roulette Intermedium, New York City.

1997 Nov. "Points of Presence" with The Hub. A live performance linking musicians at Mills College, California Institute for the Arts, and Arizona State University via the internet.

1997 Oct. Glenn Spearman Double Trio, piano performance, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, Califronia.

1997 June "Lava", European premiere, Stadtklang in Skulptur.Projekte 97, Muenster, Germany. Duo Concert with Phil Gelb, shakuhachi on the same series.

1997 May Henry Cowell and Friends, solo and ensemble piano performances, Mills College Concert Series, Oakland, California.

1997 March The Hub-In Residence, Arts in the Village - A Celebration of Arts and Technology at Georgia Tech, Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT) Auditorium Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia.

1997 Feb. "Acension", piano performance with Rova Saxophone Quartet, Bergamo Jazz Festival, Bergamo, Italy.

1997 Feb. Solo piano performance, Henry Cowell Piano Festival, Cal Performances, Berkeley, California.

1996 Nov. "Talking Drum - Mouth Full of Fire" performance installation series for Market Street Art-in-Transit, a program of the San Francisco Art Commission, in collaboration with Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth,

1996 Feb. Duo performances with Philip Gelb, Gainesville/Orlando/Tallahassee, Florida.

1996 Jan. "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", WDR concert recording, Cologne, Germany.

1995 Dec. John Coltrane's "Ascension", piano performance with the Rova Saxophone Quartet et al, live recording for Black Saint CD, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.

1995 Nov. "Live Electronic Music of John Cage", Mills College John Cage Festival/Symposium, Oakland, California.

1995 Sept. "Talking Drum", premiere performance, ISEA95, Montreal, Canada.

1995 Sept. "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California.

1995 Sept. Solo performance, piano music by Henry Cowell, Spirit of the Dunes Festival, San Luis Obispo, California.

1995 July "The Secret Magritte" and "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", DuMaurier International Jazz Festival, Vancouver, Canada.

1995 June Solo performances, Havana, Cuba, invited by Laboratorio Nacional de Musica Electroacoustica.

1995 May "Skywriters", installation/performance, South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco.

1995 April James Tenney, "The Road to Ubud", prepared piano soloist, April in Santa Cruz, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz.

1995 February "The Hub" Computer Network Music, California Arts Council Conference on Technology and the Arts, Santa Clara, California.

1994 October "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", European Tour: Cologne, Munich, Zürich, Basel.

1994 July Duo performance (with T. Dill, trumpet), live studio broadcast KPFA-FM , Berkeley.

1994 May "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada.

1994 April "Flies" by Chris Brown, premiere by Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, CAL Performances, Berkeley.

1994 March James Tenney Retrospective, curating and performance, Mills College, Oakland.

1994 March "Tenebrae", music/theater, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Univ. of Chicago.

1994 March "The Hub" Computer Network Music, live studio broadcast on KPFA-FM, Berkeley.

1994 October "Room - Interplay", Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.

1994 October "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", Earshot World Jazz Festival, Seattle, Washington.

1993 Sept. "Room-Rova", Antwerpen 93, Antwerp, Belgium.

1993 Sepember "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California.

1993 June "Rova/Hub", Indoor Barbecue, San Francisco/Oakland

1993 May "The Hub", Moers Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany.

1993 May "The Hub" and "Music from the CCM/Mills", USArts American Art in 20th Century, Akademie der Künste,Berlin, Germany.

1993 March Solo performance, New Music Theatre, San Francisco.

1992 October "The Hub" International Computer Music Conference San Jose.

1992 October "Room", Danmark s Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1992 December "Room" New Performance Gallery , San Francisco.

1992 August "Alternating Currents", Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Santa Cruz, California.

1992 July "Glenn Spearman Double Trio", Konfrontationen Festival, Nickelsdorf, Austria.

1992 May "The Hub", SoundWork, Seattle.

1992 March "The Hub", Royal Conservatory, Hague ; Free University, Brussels; Logos, Ghent; Apollohuis, Eindhoven.

1992 March Solo performance, Tage für Live-Elektronische Musik, Basel, Switzerland.

1991 November Solo performance, Obscure (intermedia performance gallery), Quebec, Canada.

1991 July "Room", Konfrontationen Festival, Nickelsdorf, Austria.

1991 May "Outdoors in Oakland", Ellen Webb Dance Company, Oakland Museum, Oakland.

1991 May "Room" , Rheinische Musik Fest Electronic Music Series, WDR West German Radio Studios, Cologne, Germany.

1991 March Solo performance, Cal Arts Festival, Valencia, California.

1990 Dec. Duo performance (with D. Poyourow, bass), Composer's Forum at Experimental Intermedia, New York City.

1990 Nov. Solo performance, Experimental Music Test, Roulette, New York City.

1990 Nov. Solos and collaboration with "Relaché" new music ensemble, Imaginary Landscapes Series, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia.

1990 Sept. Duo performance (with W. Winant, percussion), Club Bagatelle, Spreckels Performing Arts Center, Rohnert Park, California.

1990 May Duo performance (with D. Poyourow, bass), Day of Music, The Society of Jazz and World Music, Santa Barbara, California.

1990 March "Room", Taktlos Festival in Bern, Basel, and Zurich, Switzerland.

1990 March "Room", Sala dei Giganti al Liviano, Padova, Italy.

1989 Nov. Duo performance (with W. Winant, percussion), TonArt contemporary music series, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland produced for broadcast for BRD Swiss Radio.

1989 Nov. "The Hub", New Music America Festival at Experimental Intermedia, New York City.

1989 June "Quartet with Shadows" premiere performance of commission by Rova Saxophone Quartet, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco.

1989 May "Room", Moers New Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany.

1988 Nov. "The Hub", L.A.C.E. , Los Angeles.

1988 Nov. "The Hub",.New Langton Arts, San Francisco.

1988 June Solo performance, International Festival of Electronic Music, Bourges, France.

1988 April "Room", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calfifornia

1988 April "Room", April in Santa Cruz, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz.

1988 March Solo concert, New Langton Arts, San Francisco.

1987 Nov. "Room", Stedelijk Museum for VPRO Dutch Radio, Amsterdam.

1987 Nov. "Room", Stadtgarten, Koelner Gesellschaft fur Neuer Musik, Cologne.

1987 Sept. Duo performance (with W. Winant, percussion) Contemporary Chamber Players, Hertz Hall, University of California/Berkeley.

1987 June "The Hub" , commissioned work for two groups in separate spaces coordinated electronically by modem, Experimental Intermedia and The Clocktower, New York.

1987 January Duo performance (with W. Winant, percussion) STEIM (Studio for Electro- Instrumental Music), Sonesta Koepelsaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1986 Dec. "Room", Soundwork, Seattle, WA

1986 Dec. "Room", The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada.

1986 October Solo performance, STEIM Festival and Symposium of Live Electronic Music, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1986 April Solo performance, New Music America Festival, Houston.

1985 Nov. Duo performance (with W. Winant, percussion), New Music America Festival, Los Angeles.

1985 Dec. Duo performance (with W.Winant, percussion), San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1984 July "Alternating Currents", New Music America Festival, Hartford, Connecticut.

1983 "Alternating Currents" premiere , Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley.

1978-82 "Confluence", numerous performances throughout San Francisco Bay Area including 1979 Free Music Festival and Finn Hall, Berkeley.

1978 "Whale Ghosts Over Coastal Arizona", peformed live electronics in installation by David Poyourow, Univ. of California/San Diego.

1973-77 Performances throughout California of contemporary piano music.

1971 Solo piano performances of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra, Aptos and Watsonville, California.


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PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2005 "Computer Network Music Bands: A History of the League of Automatic Music Composers and The Hub", co-authored with John Bischoff, chapter 17 of "At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet", MIT Press, 2005.

2002 Aug. "Indigenous to the Net:Early Network Music Bands in the Bay Area", with John Bischoff, Crossfade website, www.sfmoma.org/crossfade.

2000 Feb. "Talking Drum: A Local Area Network Music Installation", Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 9, MIT Press.

2000 Feb. "Pidgin Musics", chapter 7 from "ARCANA- musicians on music", edited by John Zorn, Granary Books/Hip’s Road.

1996 June "Bringing Digital Music to Life", article with John Bischoff and Tim Perkis, Computer Music Journal, v. 20 number 2.

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SELECTED LECTURES/MEDIA BROADCASTS
2002 "New and Unusual Music", KPFA-FM, new music radio show, every other Sunday evening.

2000 April "Beauty", member of panel discussion on "Beyond Computers", produced by SNP Communications for the NPR syndicated radio show, show #153, 2000.

1997 Oct. Music and interview for German radio, produced by Jean-Claude Kuner.

1997 Sept. "Beyond Computers", radio program by SNP Network for public radio broadcast, featuring music by and interviews with members of "The Hub".

1994 Nov. "Mixing It" BBC Radio 3 interview "The Hub: Interactive Music at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College".

1994 August "The Geometer's Sketchpad", Key Curriculum Press, Berkeley.

1994 March Time-Based Arts Dept., ChicagoSchool of the Art Institute, Chicago.

1994 January "Here Comes Everybody - World Music", Mills College Fine Arts Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Assoc. of American Colleges, Washington, D.C.

1993 January Asian Center for Liturgy and Music, Manila, Philippines.

1993 February Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), University of California/Berkeley.

1993 August Key Curriculum Conference, Berkeley.

1990 Nov. Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

1976 New California Composers, California Arts Council recording for Public Radio.


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CURATING/ADVISING
2003 Djerassi Artist-in-Residence program panel, Woodside, California.

1996-97 Villa Montalvo Artist-in-Residence reviewer, Saratoga, California.

1994-95 Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, Performing Arts Advisory Committee, San Francisco.

1993-94 PAIR Artist in Residence Program Advisory Committee, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto.

1993 October Curated "Interplay": an evening of interactive electronic music at The Forum, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.

1992 Djerrassi Foundation Artist in Residence Curator, Woodside, California.

1992 Headlands Artist in Residence Curatorial Committee. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito.

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1991-present Member, Chamber Music Society of America.

1985-present Affiliated composer, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), Concert Music Division.

1984-present President of Ubu, Incoporated, a non-profit corporation supporting experimental music in the SF Bay Area, including Artifact Recordings, an electronic music recording label

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