ANDREW CULVER (1953) makes chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound sculpture and music sculpture,
film, lighting, text pieces, and installations. He performs concerts on sound sources of his own invention. He develops databases and software to realize his work, and to make chance operations accessible to others. He also writes about music, art and anarchy.
Andrew graduated from McGill University with a Masters of Music Composition, and composed computer music at MIT. In 2007, Andrew returned to MIT to complete the Entrepreneurship Development Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Culver is the composer of over 60 works in varied media, including microtonality (Architectonic Space), percussion (Signature), music sculpture (Music with Tensegrity Sound Source #5), computer music (PCOOSS), film (From Zero), and computer projected text (to reach the impossibility of transferring from one like image to another the memory imprint).
Andrew spent 11 years totally involved in the work of the composer John Cage. He was Cage‘s sole artistic assistant, deeply embedded in the aesthetic, creative and philosophical ideas of America‘s greatest artistic thinker. Andrew was also Cage‘s chief implementer during the last decade of his life, moving Cage‘s processes into computer programs and databases, and directing his operas and many installations worldwide. During the years they worked together, Cage came to describe his work as exemplifying an „anarchic harmony“.
