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Andrew May (born Chicago, 1968), is a composer and computer music
researcher, and a member of the composition faculty at the University
of North Texas, where he directs the Center for Experimental Music
and Intermedia. His music has been performed in Japan, Korea, Singapore,
Greece, Switzerland, Germany, and England, and throughout the United
States. His music is recorded on SEAMUS Volumes 9 and 15 and Elizabeth
McNutt's pipe wrench. May has composed for orchestra, chorus, wind
ensemble, and diverse chamber ensembles, and is best known for chamber
music with live interactive computer systems. Also a violinist,
improviser, and conductor, he has performed in Germany, Switzerland,
and numerous US venues, and is recorded on CRI. He co- founded the presenting
organization Atomic Clock Music Events. May is a board member and
officer of the International Computer Music Association. He holds
degrees from the University of California at San Diego (PhD composition,
2000), the California Institute of the Arts (MFA composition and
violin, 1994), and Yale University (BA summa cum laude with distinction
in composition, 1990), and attended the Stage d'Informatique Musicale
at IRCAM in 1998. His primary teachers were Roger Reynolds, Mel
Powell, and Jonathan Berger, composition; Miller Puckette, computer
music; Laura Kuennen-Poper and Jonathan Dubay, violin; George Lewis,
improvisation. |