Henry Gwiazda
Henry Gwiazda (born 1952, silent i, Polish for star) is a composer who specializes in virtual audio, the simulation of a three-dimensional sound space in either headphones or precisely positioned speakers. He composes what may be called musique concrète, using samples usually without “tinker[ing]” with them. Gwiazda is credited with sound effects, sampler, electric guitar and voice.
Henry Gwiazda
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- 1952 · New Britain.
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- United States
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- composer
- Education
- Eastman School of Music · The Hartt School
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1952
Henry Gwiazda born at New Britain.
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He also composed, published, produced and engineered. Focal Point 3D Audio by Bo Gehring. • "Gwiazda produces 'animated' audioscapes, oddly situating twisted and chopped real-sound samples.. Combining elements that don't have any clear relationship into compositions of surprising unity." - reviewed in CMJ by Robin Edgerton Douglas Wolk. Gwiazda studied at the Eastman School of Music, and at the Hartt School (University of Hartford), where he was a student of Arnold Franchetti.
The CD noTnoTesnoTrhyThms, contains the following compositions: • MANEATINGCHIPSLISTENINGTOAVIOLIN (1990) • whErEyoulivE (1989) • (1992) • aftergloW (1990) • themythofAcceptAnce (1991), Jeffrey Krieger, electronic cello • thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd (1995), virtual audio-for headphones only, Ann LaBerge, electronic flute • Speaker Placement Instructions • buzzingreynold'sdreamland (1994), virtual audio-for speakers only • Un Nuit Dystopia/Hommage Michel Foucault (2007)
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- Zelli, Bijan. “Reale und virtuelle Räume in der Computermusik: Theorien, Systeme, Analysen.” Unpublished Doctoral dissertation. Kommunikations- und Geschichtswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2001. — Includes an analysis of Henry Gwiazda’s buzzingreynold’sdreamland (in German)
- Zelli, Bijan. “The Choreography of Noise: Analysis of Henry Gwiazda’s “buzzingreynold’sdreamland”.” eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (March 2013). Montréal: CEC.
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