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Unsilent Night by Phil Kline
Phil Kline
Artist Biography For Phil Kline
Called "brilliant" And "a Real Original" By The New York Times Phil Kline Has Freely Crossed The Boundaries Between Contemporary Classical Rock And Ambient Electronic Music. Some Of His More Spectacular Works Have Employed Hundreds Of Boom Box Tape Players Often Mixed With Acoustic And Electronic Instruments To Create Multi-Dimensional Sound Environments In Non-Traditional Venues Ranging From The Brooklyn Anchorage Washington Square And Central Park The Streets Of Berlin And The Shores Of The Pacific In Vancouver B.C. To The Whitney Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum The Kitchen Alice Tully Hall And London's Barbican Centre. His Compositions Include Unsilent Night An Outdoor Event For Massed Boomboxes Which Debuted In The Streets Of Greenwich Village In December 1992 And Has Since Been Presented Annually In Cities Around The World Bachman's Warbler For 12 Tape Loops And Harmonicas Premiered At The Bang On A Can Marathon In 1992 Singing On The Water Presented Throughout The Whitney Museum During The 1995 Biennial The Holy City Of Ashtabula Premiered At The Brooklyn Anchorage In July 1996 And The Outdoor Tableau Winter Music Which Was Performed With Ice Theater Of New York In Central Park In December 1996. In 1997 Exquisite Corpses For Sextet And Tapes Commissioned By The Bang On A Can All-Stars Was Premiered At Lincoln Center And Kline's Electric Guitar Concerto The Garden Of Divorce Was Performed By Mark Stewart And The Glenn Branca Ensemble At The Barbican Centre In London. Recent Works Include Svarga Yatra String Quartet No. 1 Reynolds Etudes A Series Of Pieces For Solo Violin And Electronics Written For Todd Reynolds The Music Video Triptych Meditations In An Emergency A Song Cycle When I Had A Voice For Soprano And Viol Consort And The Mixed Media Opera Into The Fire Based On Texts Of Luc Sante. 2003 Has Seen The Premieres Of The Blue Room String Quartet No. 2 Pictures Of An Exhibitionist For Pianist Kathy Supove And Two Music Theater Works Bilitis And Zippo Songs. CDs Include Glow In The Dark On CRI And Unsilent Night And Zippo Songs On Cantaloupe. The Blue Room Was Released On Ethel Cantaloupe CA21017 . Kline Was Born In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania And Raised In Akron Ohio. He Studied English Literature And Music At Columbia And The Mannes College Of Music Before Embarking Upon A Career As A Composer. A Member Of The "new Wave" Downtown New York Rock Scene In The 1980s He Cofounded The Art-Punk Band The Del-Byzanteens With Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch And Painter James Nares Collaborated With Photographer Nan Goldin On The Soundtrack To Her "Ballad Of Sexual Dependency " And Was A Veteran Of Glenn Branca's Notorious Guitar Ensemble. Phil Kline Is An American Composer. Many Of His Works Are Moving Sound Sculptures Include Boomboxes. Edit Discography * Ethel "Blue Room And Other Stories" Ethel 2003 * Glow In The Dark 1998 * Unsilent Night 2001 * Zippo Songs 2004 Edit External Links * Phil Kline's Website * The Housatonic At Henry Street Surround Sound Recording
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Biography - Phil Kline
Called "brilliant" And "a Real Original" By The New York Times Phil Kline Has Freely Crossed The Boundaries Between Contemporary Classical Rock And Ambient Electronic Music. Some Of His More Spectacular Works Have Employed Hundreds Of Boom Box Tape Players Often Mixed With Acoustic And Electronic Instruments To Create Multi-Dimensional Sound Environments In Non-Traditional Venues Ranging From The Brooklyn Anchorage Washington Square And Central Park The Streets Of Berlin And The Shores Of The Pacific In Vancouver B.C. To The Whitney Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum The Kitchen Alice Tully Hall And London's Barbican Centre. His Compositions Include Unsilent Night An Outdoor Event For Massed Boomboxes Which Debuted In The Streets Of Greenwich Village In December 1992 And Has Since Been Presented Annually In Cities Around The World Bachman's Warbler For 12 Tape Loops And Harmonicas Premiered At The Bang On A Can Marathon In 1992 Singing On The Water Presented Throughout The Whitney Museum During The 1995 Biennial The Holy City Of Ashtabula Premiered At The Brooklyn Anchorage In July 1996 And The Outdoor Tableau Winter Music Which Was Performed With Ice Theater Of New York In Central Park In December 1996. In 1997 Exquisite Corpses For Sextet And Tapes Commissioned By The Bang On A Can All-Stars Was Premiered At Lincoln Center And Kline's Electric Guitar Concerto The Garden Of Divorce Was Performed By Mark Stewart And The Glenn Branca Ensemble At The Barbican Centre In London. Recent Works Include Svarga Yatra String Quartet No. 1 Reynolds Etudes A Series Of Pieces For Solo Violin And Electronics Written For Todd Reynolds The Music Video Triptych Meditations In An Emergency A Song Cycle When I Had A Voice For Soprano And Viol Consort And The Mixed Media Opera Into The Fire Based On Texts Of Luc Sante. 2003 Has Seen The Premieres Of The Blue Room String Quartet No. 2 Pictures Of An Exhibitionist For Pianist Kathy Supove And Two Music Theater Works Bilitis And Zippo Songs. CDs Include Glow In The Dark On CRI And Unsilent Night And Zippo Songs On Cantaloupe. The Blue Room Was Released On Ethel Cantaloupe CA21017 . Kline Was Born In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania And Raised In Akron Ohio. He Studied English Literature And Music At Columbia And The Mannes College Of Music Before Embarking Upon A Career As A Composer. A Member Of The "new Wave" Downtown New York Rock Scene In The 1980s He Cofounded The Art-Punk Band The Del-Byzanteens With Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch And Painter James Nares Collaborated With Photographer Nan Goldin On The Soundtrack To Her "Ballad Of Sexual Dependency " And Was A Veteran Of Glenn Branca's Notorious Guitar Ensemble. Phil Kline Is An American Composer. Many Of His Works Are Moving Sound Sculptures Include Boomboxes. Edit Discography * Ethel "Blue Room And Other Stories" Ethel 2003 * Glow In The Dark 1998 * Unsilent Night 2001 * Zippo Songs 2004 Edit External Links * Phil Kline's Website * The Housatonic At Henry Street Surround Sound Recording
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