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 ...

Any cartoon of Alvin Curran would have to include two tiny figures sitting on his shoulders and whispering advice into his ears—but not the stereotypical angel and devil. Instead, Curran’s tutelary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

These venerable European improvisers tease and taunt the listeners' psyches with free-form minimalist sound-shaping designs and subdued inner-workings with gradual buildups and asynchronous movements, ...