Dan Harris
Clarinets, Saxophones, Synth Programming, MAX/MSP/Jitter. Video interfaces, transducers. Specializes in solo performances with interactive electronics. Has worked with Michel Redolfi designing and building underwater instruments, audio mixers, etc for Michel Redolfi's underwater concerts. Has composed operas, chamber music, concertos, band and orchestra music.
Plays in several acoustic improvisational ensembles, Trio Rare (piano, vibes, bass clarinet), Vibrone (vibes & bass clarinet), Tango Band, Navigation and various casual ensembles.
Influences
Performers:
Stanley Hasty, Keith Wilson, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Wright, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Theolonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Gerry Mulligan,Pat Martino
Composers:
Carlo Gesualdo, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Morton Feldman, Edgar Varese, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Eric Dolphy, Frank Zappa, Luc Ferrari, Mel Powel, Hall Overton, Sal Maritrano, Al Fine
Authors:
Homer, Dante Alighieri, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, William Gaddis, Lawrence Durrell, Italo Calvino, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Evan S. Connell, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Georges Perec, William S. Burroughs
Artists:
Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Chuck Close, Christo, J.M.W. Turner, Alberto Giacometti, Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Chiam Sourtine, De Kooning, Dubuffet, Arshile Gorky
Friends & Colleagues:
Les Thimmig, Richard Stoltzman, Tom McKinley, Michel Redolfi, Patricio Villarroell, Alex Grillo, Michel Pascal, Michael Lowenstern, Henri Bok
And:
Maureen Mulvihill-Beatrice mia, our pastel tiger Kid Stretch, and my father, a paragon.
Sounds Like
Avant-garde experimental improvisational music with sophisticated structures and electronic interactions
Dan Harris was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from The Eastman School of Music and Yale University. His principal clarinet teachers have been Jerome Stowell, Stanley Hasty, and Keith Wilson. His composition teachers include Mel Powell, Hall Overton, & Steve Reich. Mr. Harris has spent over thirty years as an orchestral clarinetist and freelance woodwind performer. For thirteen years he was the Director of the Electronic Music Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and professor in the areas of Composition and New Music performance. Since that time, in addition to his composition and performing activities, he has been employed as chief engineer at Sync Sound in New York City. Mr. Harris is the composer of over fifty works in all genres. He specializes in live electronic works and interactive theatrical systems. His large multi-media theater works, Visions, Windows,The Tropes & Ritagli, all received high critical acclaim. A television version of Visions was shown as a PBS special. In 1989 he was artist-in-residence at the Centre International de Recherche Musicale in Nice, France. While there, he developed special underwater sound systems and music instruments for Michel Redolfi's Sonic Waters in addition to fulfilling several commissions including his Symphony of Extension (1989) for bass clarinet with electronic extensions. He has continued to work with Michel Redolfi and recently (2006) gave performances of Redolfi's Liquid Cities at the Venice Biennale & Nuit Blanche in Paris.
Since 1994 Mr. Harris has focused his performance activities exclusively on the bass clarinet and the bass clarinet with electronic & media extensions. He performs frequently in Europe with Vibrone, Trio Rare and in other improvisatory settings.
For bookings or more information, contact: Dan Harris at benclarone@mac.com.
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