Albert Mayr

A composer, instructor and scholar, Albert Mayr is small known outside academics circles. His documents for the epistemology of your time have had a more substantial blood flow than his musical functions. He has constructed instrumental music, digital music and blended mass media. His installations have already been shown in Italy, Germany and Canada. His music shows environmental worries (acoustic ecology) and a desire for the nature of your time — the last mentioned culminates in Hora Harmonica (1983), a bit that proposes an alternative solution form of calculating period. Mayr (given birth to 1943) studied structure in the music conservatories of Bolzano (his city) and Florence and graduated from your second option in 1965 having a diploma in music and choral track. He produced a summer visit to Darmstadt around that point, but he remained free from Stockhausen’s impact. His music owes far more to Pietro Grossi and the first Italian digital music tests. From 1964 to 1969 he aided Grossi in his Studo di Fonologia musicals di Firenze. In 1969 he relocated to Canada for any school year’s well worth of fellowship and remained three more like a lecturer in the Faculty of Music in McGill University or college (Montreal), getting associated with its youthful electronic music studio room. He also collaborated with R. Murray Schafer’s Globe Soundscape Task around once. Back Florence in 1973 he required a tenure as instructor of digital music in the conservatory, employment he will maintain until 1991. Mixed up in ‘70s and ‘80s as an set up artist, he offers since been concentrating on theoretical problems with respect to speculative music as well as the aesthetics of your time, showing conferences in European countries and North-America. His music continues to be difficult to find, but because the early 2000s the Italian label Ants is usually releasing his aged works.