Mark Applebaum

Tag Applebaum can be an American pianist, composer, and device designer. His actions cover four broadly different areas: modern acoustic structure, electro-acoustic composition, audio sculpture, and jazz. Like a composer, Applebaum has already established functions commissioned and performed from the Merce Cunningham Dance Organization, the Paul Dresher Outfit, and Zeitgeist. The pièce de résistance may be the “Janus Routine” (1992 to 1996, still unrecorded). Apart from instrumental music, he also writes for set support as well as the Janus ReMixes: Exercises in Auto-Plundering (1999, Innova) continues to be his most ambitious function for the reason that particular field. As an expansion of his electro-acoustic actions, Applebaum also devises percussion musical instruments he phone calls “mousetraps” out of rubbish and equipment. They signify a cross types of Hugh Davies and Tom Nunn’s contraptions and will be noticed on Mousetrap Music (1996, Innova). Finally, he’s also a dynamic jazz pianist using the Tag Applebaum Trio as well as the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo (along with his dad Robert). Tag Applebaum was created in 1967 in Chicago, IL. His dad, a high college teacher, has often held a sideline being a jazz pianist as well as the like for the device fostered early in the kid. Tag took his initial lessons at age group seven and following the inevitable senior high school rock and roll bands, he visited Carleton College also to the School of California at NORTH PARK, where he attained his M.A. and his Ph.D. in music structure (1996). His primary teachers had been Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa, and Rand Steiger. He also examined with Roger Reynolds. Because the conclusion of his Ph.D., he trained a season at Carleton University before shifting to Mississippi Condition College or university (1997 to 2000) and Stanford College or university, where he’s an assistant teacher. Applebaum started building tools in 1990 which activity was the first ever to be recorded. In 1994, he received the jazz reward from the Southern California Jazz Culture. The duo along with his dad arrived in the past due ’90s. Their 1st Compact disc, The Apple Doesn’t Fall DEFINATELY NOT the Tree, premiered in early 2002.