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Dean Drummond (born 1949) is an American composer, conductor and musician. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures His music utilises microtonality, electronics, and a huge variety of percussion. Microtonal music is Music using microtones — intervals of less than an equally spaced Semitone. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production He invented a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone in 1978.

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Biography

Born in Los Angeles, he studied trumpet and composition at the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts, going on to work for Harry Partch. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Musical composition is an original piece of Music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. Harry Partch ( June 24, 1901 &ndash September 3, 1974) was an American Composer and instrument creator In 1976, he moved to New York, where, in 1977, he was one of the founders of Newband. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Newband is a Contemporary music ensemble devoted to the performance of Microtonal Music. In 1990, he became director and curator of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium. He has performed on many of the Partch instruments (kithara, surrogate kithara, harmonic canons, adapted guitar) and his zoomoozophone, and given many educational workshops. The kithara was an Ancient Greek Musical instrument in the Lyre family He was a director of the New York Consortium for New Music for over ten years, and was involved in producing the annual Sonic Boom Festival. He is now Associate Professor and Director of the Harry Partch Institute at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Montclair State University is a public university located in Upper Montclair, Little Falls, and Clifton, New Jersey. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

Works

Most of his works are published by Hypersound.

Solo instrumental

Vocal compositions

Works for multiple instrumentalists

Films

External links

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