Black Pudding - Alan Tormey

Alan Tormey is a composer and digital musician whose work encompasses elements of noise, microtonality, and the use of gestural interface technologies to facilitate the live performance of electronic music. Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, describes his music as “absolutely cool and unnerving.” As a guitarist and laptop performer, Alan has shared the stage with some of the avant-garde’s most significant improvising performers including Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed by some of the world’s foremost musicians, including the American Composers Orchestra, the Oslo Laptop Orchestra, Marilyn Nonken, So Percussion, The Black Orchid String Trio, and Eighth Blackbird. He holds a PhD from Princeton University. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.