Composers:
La Monte Young, master of minimalism and perfectly tuned drones, now with his own authorized web page
Robert Ashley, the leading opera composer of the late 20th century, an amazing, visionary composer
William Duckworth, the leading postminimalist and a composer of enchanting piano and chamber works
Rhys Chatham, a seminal figure in Downtown music and composer of works for 100 electric guitars
Pauline Oliveros, pioneer of meditation music, and one of the great organizers for new music
Philip Glass, the minimalist whose early rhythms and harmonies Kyle Gann was most influenced by
Glenn Branca, creator of symphonies for electric guitars
Diamanda Galas, spine-tingling songstress of the avant-garde
Doctor Nerve, Nick Didkovsky's New York ensemble for hot computer-written rock/jazz/classical fusion
Harry Partch Lives in Corporeal, a spirited debate forum for hard- and soft-core Partchians
Salvatore Martirano, one of the great Midwest originals
Michael Robinson, a west-coast live-electronics composer of wild imagination
Anthony P. De Ritis, computer music whiz and Kyle Gann's most famous and thriving composition student, now on faculty at Northeastern University
Kaikhosru Sorabji, acerbic critic and Parsi composer of gargantuan piano works
Giacinto Sclesi, Italian mystic composer with a "one-tone" philosophy of music
Ivan Wyschnegradsky, amazing Russian-born composer whose mystical vision impelled him to write music in quarter-tones and sixth-tones
Organizations:
Monroe Street, the new label that publishes music by Kyle Gann, Essential Music, Relache, William Duckworth, and others
Just Intonation Network, the leading disseminator of information about more beautiful tunings than the tuning our music currently uses
Essential Music, the New York, percussion-based ensemble keeping the American experimental tradition alive
Relache, new music's leading ensemble for postminimalist music, based in Philadelphia
Frog Peak Music, intrepid publisher of many of America's most experimental composers, including Kyle Gann
Deep Listening, publishing and promoting organ of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, a vast resource for new music
Justonic, a software and info source for those curious about just intonation
Perfect Sound Forever, a magazine oriented toward music's outer edges
Other:
Alain Danielou, authority on Indian and Chinese musics, great compiler of just-intonation intervals, an early influence on La Monte Young
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