Drew Lesso
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Drew Lesso (USA), born 1949, studied composition at the Staatliche Hochschule
für Musik in Cologne BRD where he was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen
1972-1976. He was a member on the founding board of the Independent Composers
Association, Los Angeles 1978 and served as its president in 1989. His music
has been performed primarily in Southern California most notably, New Music
Los Angeles 1987 and the SCREAM Festival at CalArts 1989. He has guest lectured
on Hans Kayser Harmonics at the Otis Parsons School of Art and Design and
the Visual Music Alliance in Los Angeles. Two of his works for chamber ensemble
were performed at the Cologne Philharmonic as part of the International
Computer Music Conference 1988. Slow Down was performed by BassoBongo at
Brown Brandice University 1995. Constellations Pt 1 was selected by the
International Computer Music Association to be part of the World Wide Web
Museum at ArtneT IAMFREE 1995. Published articles in the SEAMUS Journal
and Computer Music Journal spring 1995. His compositions join harmonic proportions
from the visual world with musical motives by writing computer programs
to generate the completed work.
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