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Randy Gibson (b. 1982, US)

Education

2003 - 2017 | private studies with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela

2005 - 2017 | rāga singing in the Kirana tradition with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi

2004 | electronic production at Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis, Paris, France

1998 - 2001 | private composition studies with Michael Theodore

Percussion | 1999-2001 with Doug Walter | 1998 with Keiko Abe | 1988-1999 with Pete Ehrmann

Awards and Residencies

SVA Residency in Contemporary Practices, New York City | 2019

Fellowship in Music and Sound from the New York Foundation for The Arts | 2016

Composer’s Assistance Program award from The American Music Center | 2010

Selected Presentations

2022 | Infinite Structures at Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY | solo exhibition

2019 | Where do we come from? Where are we going? at The Sotheby's Institute of Art, NYC | group show

2018 | Areté Venue and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | performance installation | The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions of The Four Pillars in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry A:A RGB Base 9:162

2018 | 24 Hour Drone at Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY | performance | Harmonic Twilight Accretion

2017 | Rational Time at Wild Project Gallery, NYC | solo exhibition

2017 | Nief-Norf Festival & Sixth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Knoxville, TN | performance installation | The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry Tx4 Base 7:144

2017 | Tangents by Avant Media at Wild Project, NYC | performance installation | The Four Pillars Appearing from The Resonating Discs invoking The 72:81:88 Confluence in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry ATS4 Base 6:81

2017 | Dia Staff Art Show at Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY | group show

2016 | Festival 20/21 at Stuk Leuven, Belgium | performance installation | Apparitions of The 27:28 Symmetry under The 72:81:88 Differential Cirrus in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry PAVS(3) 2:7:154

2016 | ArtShare LA, Los Angeles, California | performance installation | Descending The Starfield Symmetry in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry T:O Base 7:172

2016 | The Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts | installation | Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry A:L Base 11:273 with  The Eternal 27:28 Triple Octave Displacement under The 72:81:88 Differential Apparition

2016 | Avant Music Festival at Wild Project, NYC | performance installation | Apparitions of The Four Pillars in The Midwinter Starfield Symmetry under The 72:81:88 Confluence in a setting of  Quadrilateral Starfield Symmetry A:L Base 11:273

2015 | 24 Hour Drone at Basilica Hudson, Hudson, New York | performance | Intoning The Starfield Symmetry

2015 | Wayward Music at Good Shepherd Chapel, Seattle, Washington | performance | The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield

2015 | Avant Music Festival at Wild Project, NYC | performance | Apparitions of The Four Pillars in The Midwinter Starfield under The Astral 789 Duet

2014 | ATLAS Theater, Boulder, Colorado | performance | The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield

2013 | Permutations at OSMOS Gallery, NYC | performance | Nine Minutes for The Four Pillars in duet with The Paris Drones recalling The Midwinter Starfield Theme

2013 | Thinking Media III at Chungmu Art Hall, Seoul, South Korea | group show

2012 | CAGE100: Opening Spaces for Action at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany | group show

2012 | Avant Music Festival at Wild Project, NYC | performance | Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions of The Four Pillars

2011 | Music At First at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York | performance | Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions of The Four Pillars

2011 | Avant Music Festival at Wild Project, NYC | performance | Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending

2010 | The Tapeworm's Unleashed In The East at Café Oto, London, UK | performance | The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes, The Analog TwentyFour Truckera, and The Ersatz Souvenir of The Second Pillar with The Madora Cornerstone and The Outlying Primal Abyss from Apparitions of The Four Pillars

2010 | 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival at Myong Wol Gwan, Seoul, South Korea | group show

2009 | Wild Project, NYC | performance | Doleo Æternus

2008 | International Society of Improvised Music Conference, Denver, Colorado | performance | Doleo Æternus (Equal Tempered Version)

2008 | Nachtclub mit Fenster at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany | group show

2008 | Triplicate at The Gene Frankel Theater, NYC | performance | Aqua Madora

2007 | John Cage at 95 at The Kitchen, NYC | installation | One Wall — for John Cage

2007 | Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado | screening | i left you on a cold day in december

2006 | HOT DAM at Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado | performance | Separate Haven

2006 | Boulder International Fringe Festival at The Dairy Center for The Arts, Boulder, Colorado | performance | Separate Haven

2006 | Internationale Danzmesse NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany | performance | Separate Haven

2006 | Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado | performance | Aqua Madora

2006 | Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art at West Bank Arts Quarter, Minneapolis, Minnessota | performance

2005 | Mariposa on The Fringe at The Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado | performance

2002 | Erick Hawkins Legacy Forum at Hunter College, NYC | performance

2001 | Any Little Dog Says So at The Boulder Public Library, Boulder, Colorado | performance

Published Writings

On Tuning | Sound American Issue 20: The Just Intonation Issue | October, 2018

On Time | The Brooklyn Rail’s Slow Art issue curated by Arden Reed | September, 2017

Discography

Distant Pillars, Private Pillars | CD and Digital Release on Galtta Media | November 21st, 2020

The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City) | 3CD and Digital release on Irritable Hedgehog Records | June 16th, 2017

The First Pillar Appearing In Supernova | Cassette release on Important Records | January 21st, 2014

Aqua Madora V​-​ii​-​2008 21​:​07​:​26" - 21​:​54​:​40" (NYC) | CD and Digital release on Avant Media | February 22nd, 2011

Analog Apparitions | Cassette release on The Tapeworm | October 1st, 2010

Voices + Sine Waves | CD and Digital release on Avant Media | October 6th, 2009

Selected Bibliography

Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader | 40 favorite albums of 2017, numbers 10 through 1 | December, 2017

Ron Schepper, Textura | #1 Classical Recording | December, 2017

Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine | Review: Randy Gibson — The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VII 10 (Kansas City) (Irritable Hedgehog) | October, 2017

Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times | Listen to Three Hours of Music, From a Single Note | June, 2017

Rebecca Lentjes, I Care If You Listen | Gibson’s Apparitions of the Four Pillars: 2016 Avant Media Festival | April, 2016

Porter Anderson, Thought Catalog | Randy Gibson: “This Feeling Of Eternity” | February, 2016

Nate Wooley, Sound American 11 (The Ritual Issue) | Curator and Composer Randy Gibson | April, 2015

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times | Keyed to Latter-Day Anxiety, a Drone That Blends Archaic and Modern | March, 2015

Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen | Avant Music Festival Presents Randy Gibson’s Apparitions… | March, 2015

Ron Schepper, Textura | Mounting The Four Pillars | March, 2014

Andrew Lee, I Care If You Listen | 5 Questions to Randy Gibson (composer, co-founder of Avant Media) | February, 2013

Molly Sheridan, New Music Box | The Education of Randy Gibson | August, 2012

Bruce Hodges, Seen and Heard International | Avant Music Festival: Sine Waves and John Cage | February, 2012

Olivia Giovetti, WQXR The New Canon | Cage Match with Randy Gibson | February, 2012

Ron Schepper, Textura | Randy Gibson: Aqua Madora | May, 2011

Scott McMillan, The Liminal | The Tapeworm – Unleashed In The East, Cafe Oto 09/12/2010 | December, 2010