Draft:Ben Leeds Carson

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Ben Leeds Carson (born August 24, 1971, in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American composer and educator.

Biography edit

Early in Carson's life his parents did surveying work for the United States Geological Service; in a later radio interview, Carson describes geological influences on his approach to composition..[1] During graduate studies, as a resident artist at IRCAM (!999), Carson collaborated with psycho-acousticians Stephen McAdams and Daniel Matzkin in studies of musical form.[2] In 2003, Carson joined the music faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served as a visiting scholar at Columbia University (2007-2008), and as an artist-in-residence at Shanghai Conservatory (2018)[3]

Music edit

Carson's music, often exploring themes of interiority and philosophical questions about consciousness, is informed by scholarship on Gilles Deleuze[4] and William James.[5] Early critics noted "a strong momentum and propulsion",[6] and complex voice organization,[7] both associated with Carson's empirical approaches to rhythm and form.[8] Collaborations involving Carson since 2012 have included By A Moment And A Word (Chicago: Sideband Records 8), a collection of recordings by Germany- and Austria-based musicians, which composer Richard Barrett described as "music being reinvented from first principles...as if every sound, every familiar interval, and, most crucially, every structural turning point, is being heard for the first time"[9]; critic Mark Swed mentioned the album's opening work, in live performance, as "a kind of acoustic acupressure".[10]

References edit

  1. ^ Leveille, David (November 8, 2013). "Of the following US states: Connecticut, Nebraska, and California, which ones fall entirely south of Canada's southernmost border?". The World. Public Radio International. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  2. ^ McAdams, Stephen; Matzkin, Daniel (2003). Peretz, I.; Zatorre, R.J. (eds.). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 76–94.
  3. ^ Thomalla, Hans. "Sideband Records 8 — Artist Info". sidebandrecords.com. Sideband Records. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ Carson, Benjamin (December 2007). "Perceiving and distinguishing simple timespan ratios without metric reinforcement". Journal of New Music Research. 36 (4): 313–336. doi:10.18061/emr.v12i3-4.5814.
  5. ^ Till, Gretchen. "Loose Ends : Writing Texts — Some notes and thoughts by an insider-outsider". iLand John Cage 50th Symposium. iLand: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature, and Dance. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  6. ^ Heyes, David (Winter 2001). "Benjamin Carson: Détale, for Contrabass and Eight Players". British and International Bass Forum (30).
  7. ^ Williams, Christopher (2005). "On the piano music of Benjamin Carson: time, tonality, and continuity". The Open Space Magazine (5).
  8. ^ Poudrier, Eve (2017). "Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences". Empirical Musicology. 12 (3–4): 277–314. doi:10.18061/emr.v12i3-4.5814. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  9. ^ Thomalla, Hans; Mercer, Chris. "By A Moment And A Word. Music of Ben Leeds Carson performed by Dog Trio and Reidemeister Move". sidebandrecords.com. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  10. ^ Swed, Mark (12 October 2018). "Critic's Notebook: In Fluxus — making sense of the amorphous anti-art movement's arrival in L.A." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 September 2023.