Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma is a Compositeur American of Modern music born the March 30th 1935 with Framingham, in the Massachusetts.
After having studied the Piano and the trumpet, Gordon Mumma begin its career as a Trompettiste within symphony orchestras or of chamber music. From 1953 to 1966 he lives with Ann Arbor, Michigan, where constitutes an important group of artists among whom one finds the type-setters Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, Roger Reynolds, Donald Scavarda, and Bruce Wise, the architects Harold Borkin and Joseph Wehrer, the realizer George Manupelli as well as the painter-sculptors Mary Ashley and Milton Cohen.
In 1958, it founds with Robert Ashley the " Co-operative Studio for Electronic Music" to conceive the musics of the light-shows of the Space Theater of Milton Cohen and the musics of films of George Manupelli.
From 1960 it meets John Cage and David Tudor. It designs for them electronic musical equipment. And, of 1966 to 1974 it is, with John Cage and David Tudor, one of the three type-setter-musicians of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
In 1966, it Co-founds Sonic Arts Union.
The compositions of Gordon Mumma include/understand works for acoustic instruments (piano solo and chamber music) and for electronic devices and computers.
External bonds
The site of the type-setter
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