As a spectrum: zen, Scelsi, Czernowin, Schnittke, Iddon, noise, Cage, pop, television.
*BANG!* humor.
Sounds Like
"How delightful to observe convergences so fragile and ephemeral and yet intended and hard-won."
-Steve Takasugi
"Schwer zu singen."
-Cornelius Schwehr
"That was the right note."
-Chaya Czernowin
"Tough act to follow."
-Pauline Oliveros
"Your emotions are weird, Ian. I always feel like your music is
a very complex reflection of you trying to work out whether or not it
is, in fact, ok to *have emotions*..."
-Trevor Baca
"Unusual..."
-Oakland Tribune
"You're good at making music with things."
-Mizuki Brent, age 6
"My greatest work is the Bolero. Unfortunately, it contains no music."
-Maurice Ravel
Sample tracks are excerpts, except where noted. If you can't hear it, turn up the volume, some of the music is very soft. Full tracks available: e-mail me and I can either e-mail you tracks or mail a CD. For all contact use ianhpower@gmail.com
My name is Ian Power, and I am an American musician and composer.
I was born in 1984 in Rochester, New York.
I currently attend Harvard University, and have received degrees from Ithaca College and the University of California, San Diego. I have also attended summer courses in Brevard, Darmstadt, and Schloss Solitude. My principle teachers have been Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Anthony Burr, Robert Morris, Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward.
My work incorporates elements of theatre, theater, humor, humour, and awesome sounds. I also perform my own and others' works on any number of instruments, and conduct as well. I am active in I guess what you would call "amateur" musicology, but I am getting pretty good at it.
I'm on facebook and I have a blog, linked to your left.
Recent List of Works: Günaylın for viola (2009); The Entire Schnittke Viola Concerto for viola (2009); Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi for piano (2009); Ligeti for Two Pianos for viola, two pianos, assistants, and tape (2009); Interlude for percussion quartet and carillon (2009); Our Hero's Dilemma for Batman and one other performer (2008); My lips grow dry,...,,,,,,, for 13 players (2008); "We have not been...picked out...simply to be abandoned..." for two strings and two optional assistants (2007); I seem to be a verb, for reciter, ceramic coffee mug and butter knife (2007); Quartet for violin, clarinet, piano and percussion (2007); in memory of Austin T. Craig for piano (2006);
Recent Writings: Value Discourses and Britney Spears Fans: An Ethnography (2009); Indulgence in an Imaginary Past: Inherent Nostalgia in the use of "Ready-Made" Musics (2009); On the Nature of Aesthetic Evaluation (2007); Covering a Basis: Tactics of Experiential Manipulation in Skye Sweetnam's cover of "Wild World" (2006); Motivic Parallelism and Prolongation in Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto, Mvt. II (2004).
Thanks for the add! I enjoyed perusing your site, especially your list of comments from composers/teachers. The one from Baca is great and I can hear Roger's voice saying "Face Up". I'm not sure what it means but it sounds like him.
Thanks Ian! Yea, it's very exciting - roll on september! Everything's good apart from having to work lots and only getting to compose a little. Can't wait to be a student again. How's the Masters going?
Hey, Ian. Thanks for the add. Your work is really nice, I really like it. Have fun at Schloss and say hi to James Avery, Kenn Kumpf, and Paul Feyertag for me. Best, Marcos
