Carl Stone

Carl Stone was born in Los Angeles and now lives in San Francisco. He has composed electro- acoustic music exclusively since 1972. In 1984 he was commissioned to compose a new work which premiered as part of the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles. That same year his music was selected by the dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones for the production of 1-2-3.

In 1996 he created music for the Noh Project, a collaboration with choreographer June Watanabe and Noh master Anshin Uchida. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. Recordings of Carl Stone's music can be found on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me/em:t and New Tone labels. He currently hosts a weekly program on KPFA, as well as regular appearances on radio in Japan, where he also writes a regular column for Sound & Recording Magazine.

He is the Web Editor for Other Minds, a world wide web site devoted to New Music. His own web site can be found at http://www.sukothai.com.

“NYALA is music for the dance collaboration with Kuniko KISANUKI commissioned and premiered in 1995 at the Aichi-ken Geijitsu Bunka Center in Nagoya. The work was previewed at an early stage at Mandala2 in Tokyo, and later released in final form as the CD entitled CARL STONE 1196, on the em:t label from England.”