Paul DeMarinis

Paul DeMarinis is an American electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist.

Education

DeMarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College. At the college, DeMarinis studied film with Paul Sharits, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary.^[1]

DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College. At the college, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley, Terry Riley video with Phillip Makanna.^[2]

Career

DeMarinis' performance pieces and interactive installations have been featured in exhibitions and festivals.^[3][4] DeMarinis received a 1996 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. He received the Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica Festival for his installation The Messenger (2003).^[5]

In the late 1970s he was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based experimental music collective The League of Automatic Music Composers.^[6][7]

DeMarinis has investigated abandoned technologies and the history of electronic inventions and telecommunications.^[8] Some of his installation works have used optics and computers and featured processed and synthesized speech.^[9]

DeMarinis taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He is a Professor of Art at Stanford University in California.^[10]

Selected works

• "Jiffy_pop" (2013)
• Pneuma (2010)
• The Probable Flight Path of AF447 (2010)
• Around the World (2010)
• Dust (2009)
• Early Media goes to the Movies (2008)
• Hypnica (2007)
• Rome to Tripoli (2006–2008)
• A Light Rain (2004) in collaboration with Rebecca Cummins
• Firebirds (2004)
• Tongues of Fire (2004)
• (Tommy Franks) Dérive Quebec (2003)
• Rebus (2003)
• Wavescape (2003)
• According to Scripture (2002)
• Moondust Memories (2001)
• Walls in the Air (2001)
• The Products of Our Industry (2000)
• Four Foxhole Radios (2000)
• The Lecture of Comrade Stalin... (1999–2002)
• RainDance / Musica Acuatica (1998)
• The Messenger (1998)
• Grind Snaxe Blind Apes (A Study for Pomeroy's Tomb) (1997)
• Living with Electricity (1997)
• Sound Waves and Scan-O-Vision (1996)
• Gray Matter (1995)
• Chaotic Jumpropes (1994)
• The Edison Effect (1989–1993)
• An Unsettling Matter (1991)
• Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi (1989)
• Alien Voices (1988)
• Voice Creatures (1986)
• Music Room / Faultless Jamming (1982)
• Sound Fountain (1982) In collaboration with David Behrman
• Sounds and the Shadows of Sounds (1979)
• A Byte at the Opera (1977) performance with Jim Pomeroy
• The Pygmy Gamelan (1973)

Discography

• A Listener's Companion, Het Apollohuis Compact Disc (Holland), 1995
• Music as a Second Language, Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 3011, 1991
• Mind Power, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine #22, 1989
• I Want You and Kokole, on "Another Coast: Electronic Music from California," Music & Arts CD 276, 1988
• Eenie Meenie Chillie Beenie and Yellow Yankee, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine #9, 1985
• She's-a-Wild, Record Records RR 101, 1981
• If God Were Alive (& He Is) You Could Reach Him by Telephone & Forest Booties on Lovely Little Records, Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 101-6, 1980
• Great Masters of Melody on "Just for the Record," "Blue" Gene Tyranny, keyboards, Lovely Music, Ltd. LP 1062, 1979 ^[11]

References

External links

• Artist’s website