Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Encyclopedia
Scot Gresham-Lancaster is a composer, performer, instrument builder, educator and educational technology specialist with over three decades of professional experience. He is dedicated to research and performance using the expanding capabilities of computer networks to create new environments for musical and cross discipline expression. As a member of The Hub (band)
, he is one of the early pioneers of "computer network" music which uses the behavior of interconnected music machines to create innovative ways for performers and computers to interact. He has recently performed in a series of "co-located" performances collaborating in real time with live and distant dancers, video artists and musicians in network based performances. For over two decades, he has worked with multimedia prototyping and user interface theory and its relationship to new markets as an independent consultant and at Interval Research, SEGA-USA, and Muse Communications.
As a student, he studied with Philip Ianni, Roy Harris
, Darius Milhaud
, John Chowning
, Robert Ashley
, Terry Riley
, Robert Sheff, David Cope
and Jack Jarret among others. In the late 1970s he worked closely with Serge Tcherepnin
helping with the construction and distribution of Serge's Serge Modular Music System. He went on to work at Oberheim
Electronics. In the early 1980s he was the technical director at the Mills College
Center for Contemporary Music, and has taught at California State University, Hayward, Diablo Valley College
, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts
, Cogswell College
, and San Jose State University
.
He has been a composer in residence at Mills College
Center for Contemporary Music. At STEIM
in Amsterdam he has been doing ongoing work to develop new families of controllers to be used exclusively in the live performance of electroacoustic music. He is an alumnus of the Djerassi Artist Residency Program. He has toured and recorded as a member of The Hub (band)
and Room
(with Chris Brown, Larry Ochs
and William Winant
), Alvin Curran
, ROVA
saxophone quartet, the Club Foot Orchestra
, and the Dutch ambient group NYX. He has performed the music of Alvin Curran
, Pauline Oliveros
, John Zorn
, and John Cage
, under their direction, and worked as a technical assistant to Lou Harrison
, Iannis Xenakis
, David Tudor
, Edmund Campion
, Cindy Cox
and among many others.
Since 2006 he has collaborated with media artist Stephan Bull in a series of “cellphone operas”. Cellphonia explores the social, technological, and creative possibilities of cell phones with bias to encourage new applications for cultural growth.
The Aesthetics and History of the Hub: The Effects of Changing Technology on Network Computer Music
Mixing in the Round
Flying Blind: Network and feedback based systems in real time interactive music performances.
No There, There: A personal history of telematic performance
TZ 8050-3
Orchestrate Clang Mass, solo work Live Interactive Electronics (1983-2001) (2003 OCM publishing)
Fuzzybunny w/Chris Brown and Tim Perkis Sonore 2001
The HUB: Wrecking Ball (Hub 2nd CD) Artifact 010
Yearbook Vol. 1 Track 5 Rastascan
Nonstop Flight (HUB with Deep Listening Band) Music and Arts
Metropolis (Clubfoot Orchestra)
Voys vol.1 (Voys)
Electric Rags (w Alviv Curran and the Rova Saxophone Quartet) New Albion
NYX Axis Mundi (with Bert Barten) Lotus Records
Gino Robair: Other Destinations Rastascan Records
Vol. 17 CDCM Computer Music Series (Chain reaction) CDCM
Room (Hall of Mirrors) Music and Art
The HUB: Computer Network Music, Artifact 002
Talking Drum: Chris Brown, Pogus 21034
The Hub (band)
The Hub is an American "computer network music" ensemble consisting of John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle and Phil Stone....
, he is one of the early pioneers of "computer network" music which uses the behavior of interconnected music machines to create innovative ways for performers and computers to interact. He has recently performed in a series of "co-located" performances collaborating in real time with live and distant dancers, video artists and musicians in network based performances. For over two decades, he has worked with multimedia prototyping and user interface theory and its relationship to new markets as an independent consultant and at Interval Research, SEGA-USA, and Muse Communications.
As a student, he studied with Philip Ianni, Roy Harris
Roy Harris
Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
, Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
, John Chowning
John Chowning
John M. Chowning is an American composer, musician, inventor, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University and his invention of FM synthesis while there.-Contribution:...
, 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...
, Robert Sheff, David Cope
David Cope
David Cope is an American author, composer, scientist, and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz...
and Jack Jarret among others. In the late 1970s he worked closely with Serge Tcherepnin
Serge Tcherepnin
Serge Tcherepnin is an American composer and electronic-instrument builder of Russian-Chinese origin. He created the Serge Modular synthesizer.-Biography:...
helping with the construction and distribution of Serge's Serge Modular Music System. He went on to work at Oberheim
Oberheim
Oberheim Electronics is an American company, founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim , which manufactured audio synthesizers and a variety of other electronic musical instruments.-Oberheim Electronics:...
Electronics. In the early 1980s he was the technical director at the 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...
Center for Contemporary Music, and has taught at California State University, Hayward, Diablo Valley College
Diablo Valley College
Diablo Valley College is a two-year community college in Pleasant Hill in Contra Costa County, California.DVC is one of three publicly supported two-year community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District , and was first opened in 1949...
, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts
Ex'pression College for Digital Arts
Ex'pression College for Digital Arts is a private, for-profit college located in Emeryville, California, geared toward the entertainment industry and known for its around-the-clock schedule and five week classes...
, Cogswell College
Cogswell College
Cogswell Polytechnical College is a private college located in Sunnyvale, California. It holds accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges...
, and San Jose State University
San José State University
San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...
.
He has been a composer in residence 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...
Center for Contemporary Music. At STEIM
STEIM
STEIM is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic music in STEIM's context is always strongly related to the physical and direct actions of a musician...
in Amsterdam he has been doing ongoing work to develop new families of controllers to be used exclusively in the live performance of electroacoustic music. He is an alumnus of the Djerassi Artist Residency Program. He has toured and recorded as a member of The Hub (band)
The Hub (band)
The Hub is an American "computer network music" ensemble consisting of John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle and Phil Stone....
and Room
Room
A room is any distinguishable space within a structure.Room may also refer to:* Room , by Emma Donoghue* Room, Nepal* Room for PlayStation Portable, a social networking service* Thomas Gerald Room , Australian mathematician...
(with Chris Brown, Larry Ochs
Larry Ochs
Lawrence David Ochs was the last mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado to be elected to the post by the city council. Ochs served on the Colorado Springs City Council from 1967 to 1975 and was mayor from 1975 to 1979. Since then the position has been a popularly elected one.Ochs was born in Russell,...
and William Winant
William Winant
William Winant is an American percussionist.In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston...
), Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....
, ROVA
Rova
"Rova" can refer to:* Rova, a village in the Domžale Municipality in Slovenia;* The Rova Manjakamiadana, a royal palace complex in Antananarivo, former home of the monarchs of Madagascar;...
saxophone quartet, the Club Foot Orchestra
Club Foot Orchestra
The Club Foot Orchestra is a music ensemble founded in 1983 by Richard Marriott. After a brief career playing dramatic, complex music in San Francisco clubs, they became known for their equally dramatic and complex scores for classic silent movies. The ensemble got their name from a performance art...
, and the Dutch ambient group NYX. He has performed the music of Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....
, Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
, John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
, and John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, under their direction, and worked as a technical assistant to Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
, Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, David Tudor
David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.- Biography :Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the...
, Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...
, Cindy Cox
Cindy Cox
Cindy Cox is an American composer and performer, and Professor of Music.She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Texas Christian University, and her Masters and Doctorate in 1992 from Indiana University in composition, where she studied with Harvey Sollberger, Donald Erb, Eugene...
and among many others.
Since 2006 he has collaborated with media artist Stephan Bull in a series of “cellphone operas”. Cellphonia explores the social, technological, and creative possibilities of cell phones with bias to encourage new applications for cultural growth.
Publications
Experiences in Digital Terrain: Using Digital Elevation Models for Music and Interactive Multimedia.The Aesthetics and History of the Hub: The Effects of Changing Technology on Network Computer Music
Mixing in the Round
Flying Blind: Network and feedback based systems in real time interactive music performances.
No There, There: A personal history of telematic performance
Discography
The HUB: Boundary Layer (3-CD retrospective) TzadikTzadik
Tzadik/Zadik/Sadiq is a title given to personalities in Jewish tradition considered righteous, such as Biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The root of the word ṣadiq, is ṣ-d-q , which means "justice" or "righteousness", also the root of Tzedakah...
TZ 8050-3
Orchestrate Clang Mass, solo work Live Interactive Electronics (1983-2001) (2003 OCM publishing)
Fuzzybunny w/Chris Brown and Tim Perkis Sonore 2001
The HUB: Wrecking Ball (Hub 2nd CD) Artifact 010
Yearbook Vol. 1 Track 5 Rastascan
Nonstop Flight (HUB with Deep Listening Band) Music and Arts
Metropolis (Clubfoot Orchestra)
Voys vol.1 (Voys)
Electric Rags (w Alviv Curran and the Rova Saxophone Quartet) New Albion
NYX Axis Mundi (with Bert Barten) Lotus Records
Gino Robair: Other Destinations Rastascan Records
Vol. 17 CDCM Computer Music Series (Chain reaction) CDCM
Room (Hall of Mirrors) Music and Art
The HUB: Computer Network Music, Artifact 002
Talking Drum: Chris Brown, Pogus 21034
External links
- Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Chris Brown and Scot Gresham-Lancaster.” eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
. - Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Scot Gresham-Lancaster.” eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
.