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Conlon Nancarrow was an iconoclastic American composer who wrote within an utterly new method using new instrumental assets. While isolated from the primary currents of music, he was practically ignored by the general public and his co-workers before 1970s. Within the 1980s composer György Ligeti stated Nancarrow was composing “the …

Examined at CA Institute from the Arts, Mills University. Comp. with Robert Moran, Adam Tenney, Robert Ashley. Founding person in League of Auto Music Composers, the initial computer network music group, as well as the Hub, a pc performance collective. Released writings on pc music. Presently on faculty and personnel …