The composer and keyboardist Alvin Curran was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and is now a sprightly 79 years old. His work with Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome, from 1966 onwards, is of most ...

Musician and composer Alvin Curran (Providence, Rhode Island, 1938) traces more than fifty years of musical research and collaborations, while also recounting his relationship with the city of Rome ...

Composer Alvin Curran has created pieces for musicians in boats spread across a lake. He has written compositions that incorporate wolf calls, conch shells, foghorns, and church bells, and has now ...

American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international radio concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s ...

Ship horns bellowed throughout the Orwig Music Building last Friday afternoon as experimental composer Alvin Curran '60 played sound clips during his talk on "Music Outside the Concert Halls." The ...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 | 5:00 pm & 6:30pm Mills College Art Museum 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613 BEAMS is a structured improvisation piece composed by Alvin Curran for upwards of 15 ...

The recently rehabbed Veterans Room of New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory is a bit like the Room of Requirement in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books—you never know what you’re going to find, but ...

The experimental composer unveils "Shofar III," a new work combining the ram's horn of Jewish ritual with sampled electronic sounds. Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If seen on the street, Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski might be ...

This multinational dream team's second album was recorded live at a venue in Lisbon, Portugal. MMM stands for Mills Music Mafia, alluding to the respective artists' tenure or residency at Mills ...