Paul DeMarinis
Encyclopedia
Paul DeMarinis is an American
electronic music
composer, sound
, performance
, and computer-based artist.
, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary.
In 1973, DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College. At the college, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley
, Terry Riley
and Lars Gunnar Bodin
, video with Phillip Makanna.
pieces and interactive installations
have been featured in exhibitions and festivals. He received the Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica Festival for his installation The Messenger (2003).
In the late 1970s he was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based experimental music collective The League of Automatic Music Composers.
DeMarinis has investigated abandoned technologies and the history of electronic inventions and telecommunications. Some of his installation works have used optics and computers and featured processed and synthesized speech.
DeMarinis taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College
, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Stanford University
in California.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
composer, sound
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
, performance
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
, and computer-based artist.
Education
In 1971, Demarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College. At the college, DeMarinis studied film with Paul SharitsPaul Sharits
Paul Jeffrey Sharits Paul Sharits was a visual artist, best known for his work in "experimental" or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the Structural film movement, along with artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.His film work primarily focused on...
, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary.
In 1973, DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College. At the college, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley , is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
, Terry Riley
Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell Riley, is an American composer intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement...
and Lars Gunnar Bodin
Lars Gunnar Bodin
Lars Gunnar Bodin is a Swedish pioneer in the field of electronic music during the 1960s, especially in the Scandinavian scene.- Education and early career :...
, video with Phillip Makanna.
Career
DeMarinis' performancePerformance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
pieces and interactive installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
have been featured in exhibitions and festivals. He received the Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica Festival for his installation The Messenger (2003).
In the late 1970s he was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based experimental music collective The League of Automatic Music Composers.
DeMarinis has investigated abandoned technologies and the history of electronic inventions and telecommunications. Some of his installation works have used optics and computers and featured processed and synthesized speech.
DeMarinis taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College
Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in California.
Selected works
- Pneuma (2010)
- The Probable Flight Path of AF447 (2010)
- Around the World (2010)
- Dust (2009)
- Early Media goes to the Movies (2008)
- Hypnica (2007)
- Rome to Tripoli (2006–2008)
- A Light Rain (2004) in collaboration with Rebecca Cummins
- Firebirds (2004)
- Tongues of Fire (2004)
- (Tommy Franks) Dérive Quebec (2003)
- Rebus (2003)
- Wavescape (2003)
- According to Scripture (2002)
- Moondust Memories (2001)
- Walls in the Air (2001)
- The Products of Our Industry (2000)
- Four Foxhole Radios (2000)
- The Lecture of Comrade Stalin... (1999–2002)
- RainDance / Musica Acuatica (1998)
- The Messenger (1998)
- Grind Snaxe Blind Apes (A Study for Pomeroy's Tomb) (1997)
- Living with Electricity (1997)
- Sound Waves and Scan-O-Vision (1996)
- Gray Matter (1995)
- Chaotic Jumpropes (1994)
- The Edison Effect (1989–1993)
- An Unsettling Matter (1991)
- Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi (1989)
- Alien Voices (1988)
- Voice Creatures (1986)
- Music Room / Faultless Jamming (1982)
- Sound Fountain (1982) In collaboration with David BehrmanDavid BehrmanDavid Behrman is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether...
- Sounds and the Shadows of Sounds (1979)
- A Byte at the Opera (1977) performance with Jim PomeroyJim Pomeroy (artist)James C. Pomeroy was an American artist whose practice spanned a variety of media including performance art, sound art, photography, installation art, sculpture, and video art.-Career:...
http://books.google.com/books?id=lu7KPDCfcXMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=performance+art+anthology&hl=en&ei=Hmw1TPSbJZH7nAflkv3hAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Paul%20DeMarinis&f=false - The Pygmy Gamelan (1973)
Discography
- A Listener's Companion, Het ApollohuisHet ApollohuisHet Apollohuis was a space for experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," founded in Eindhoven, Netherlands, by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in a former 19th century cigar factory in 1980...
Compact Disc (Holland), 1995 - Music as a Second Language, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 3011, 1991
- Mind Power, Tellus Audio Cassette MagazineTellus Audio Cassette MagazineLaunched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time...
#22, 1989 - I Want You and Kokole, on "Another Coast: Electronic Music from California," Music & Arts CD 276, 1988
- Eenie Meenie Chillie Beenie and Yellow Yankee, Tellus Audio Cassette MagazineTellus Audio Cassette MagazineLaunched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time...
#9, 1985 - She's-a-Wild, Record Records RR 101, 1981
- If God Were Alive (& He Is) You Could Reach Him by Telephone & Forest Booties on Lovely Little Records, Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 101-6, 1980
- Great Masters of Melody on "Just for the Record," "Blue" Gene TyrannyGene TyrannyBlue' Gene Tyranny is an avant-garde composer and pianist. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, the adopted son of Dorothy and Meyer Sheff. He studied piano with Meta Hertwig and Rodney Hoare, and composition with Otto Wick and Frank Hughes...
, keyboards, Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 1062, 1979