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Disc: $15.00 This is the soundtrack to the Terra Mirabila show put on in the Stony Creek rock quarry in CT by "Projects for a New Millennium" headed by Jow Wulke. Music by Istvan Peter B'Racz, lighting by Jamie Burnett, video images by Becky Abbott. Truly a magical outdoor spectacle.
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Disc: $15.00 [AUDIO ca. 25'] You are listening to a thin slice/rendering of a 3 CD spatial surround project (called "Froggus Housatonicus") done in conjunction with visual artist Joy Wulke for an exhibit at the Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT. It uses frog sounds that have been manipulated, sculpted, and vastly digitally altered. The more "real" sounds of water, and bamboo ritual-flute plays in stark contrast above the digital-franken-frog soundworld- yet it all seems to meld in a hyper-real fashion. The three CDs were created so that their lengths are different, and when they were put on infinite loop, the whole work would not repeat for an enormous span of time. For me, Nature is the ultimate true "minimalist": same materials, different timings, different sonic interactions, different experience.
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Disc: $10.00 [CD AUDIO] Electronic(a)-Ambient-Ethereal 8 TRACKS: Sphere1*, Dance of Galactic Evolution, Forestranger (part1)*, Izzy Eye-Dantz*, Sphere2*, Bridgeport post-show music, Forestranger (part2)*, Sphere3*. Various Soundtracks used in various shows for Projects for a New Millennium (www.projects2k.org). *(To Preview these, please look at the individual MP3 Tracks with the same titles following this CD on this site)
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Disc: $5.50 [CD AUDIO, High Quality 64'27"] Soundtrack VERSION 1 to the 1922 F.W. Murneau b+w silent film performed LIVE by "Goorilla". Istvan Peter B'Racz (keyboard, sampler, sound design, live mixing, recording engineer), Joseph DiPonio (Sax, ancient Knob Synth, various percussion), and Edward Ludvigsen (flute, guitar, vocals and vocal-loops). Performed to the 60' "Republic" video release. Start it right at the "Greek Pendant" image in the beginning...This is actually one long track divided into 8 index points. If you'd like to preview the entire work, please listen to the Mp3 preview-version (following this one). The low price of the CD reflects ONLY the manufacturing cost (NO profit is made in the sale of this recording). Thanks for listening, dear listener.
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Disc: $10.00 [CD-audio] 5 TRACKS: ca. 60 min. These are when little Effin was just a weee-techno-baby. He googoo'd out these motion-lotion dance tunes using the program-ekwivalent of a speak'n'spel (oops! sorry for the mis-spel (oops, again!)). Effin Izzy's copyright free musiks. They're free because they were generated using "Groovemaker(tm)", then mildly edited- and, well, that's just too darned easy- yet they are fun, so I now share them with you. ;-)...so you can get the dinky mp3's (lower quality) free, or you can buy the beautiful CD and get a real full-sound-blast of high quality! All the original sounds on this CD were made by the Groovemaker team, and thanks to them, "I did it my way..."
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DecanturDecantur (audio download)
Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Music used at the end of a film called "G-spots": a modern retelling of the "Wife of Bath" Canterbury Tale starring Sandy Duncan and Kieth Davids, produced by Bagelfish Productions, directed by Daniel Scott Fine, written by Fine and Carla Stockton. Solo voice: Edward Ludvigsen, Cello: An-Lin Bardin. Other haunting vocal samples: "Frottola" (old record) by the Rennaissance composer Josquin Desprez. Its gotten great reviews on MySpace.
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD and PREVIEW] "Papyrus Nugator 1" (ca. 17')
is based on a poem written and read by Emoke B'Racz called "Hungarian Childhood".
I took her spoken voice and surrounded it with sound; her voice, mostly,
to generate the sounds with the exception of a few instruments.
I looked at the text and thought to myself: what if this poem was dreaming...hence the title:
Paper Dreaming, i.e. paper/tree/word/record/dream/self-aware.
CD (MUCH higher quality) on sale HERE and also at
malaprops.com (My sister Emoke's Store)
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD/preview] This is the soundtrack to a 15 minute short poem-film "He was a Poet..."
written and directed by Mark Saba and filmed by Jerry Domian.
There is no dialog, and only a few words are shown in the film- slow shifting dreamy scenes.
The music was created with the mindset that the film itself was "dreaming"- and its own dream generated the sounds.
It is a beautiful poem about a poet who dies, and gets buried in a tree. Then a tree company cuts it down and makes furniture.
Beautiful haunting "prepared-trumpet" playing by soloist Joseph Drew, and distant ringing tones of Gesualdo with sound-design from noises of trees falling and being cut.
Included as the third track of "Papyrus Nugator II" CD (much better quality) available at HERE
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD and PREVIEW] (ca. 45 min)
Ambient work somewhat influenced by Eno, minimalism, and the Severed Heads' "Clifford Darling";
surreal music using frog sounds, and samples of noises out in CT's Stony Creek Granite Quarry
(used in "Terra Lumina" and Terra mirabila" as pre-show).
This is a live "performance-mix" realized on an ADAT. To buy a MUCH higher quality CD, please go to: HERE
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White RabbitWhite Rabbit (audio download)
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Hypnotic, trippy and quirky: this is the "White Rabbit" song that you might already know,
put to a drum loop in 5/4. Effin Izzy's distant trippy background synth
and Jesai Jayhmes singing in his dazed sonambulic/hyper-extremes-style make for a good time.
Should've been the theme song for the pharmaceutical industry...boy, they really missed-out on THAT one, don't you think?
Please give it a listen, preview it, and let us know what you think. Give it your stamp of "whatever".
After-all, that's what its all about, isn't it? The freedom to do so.
Go ahead, take a freedom-pill, and make it all better...
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Nosferatu version 1, 60 min.
Streaming preview (lower quality) for the CD version right before this selection
(i.e. this is the EXACT same recording as the previous selection). You may also purchase a good quality MP3 of this here.
If you want really high quality (I do), please buy the CD available here as well. The sound is SO much better!!!
For further info, please see the CD version of the same name before this.
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Sphere 1Sphere 1 (audio download)
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First aspect of the sphere: three parts: seperate, yet whole.
Created from tuning a radio, sampling it, and then "performing it" -
along with some strings, it yields wonderful light and lush texture which I love.
From the "Terra Lumina Sountrack".
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Meditative marimba-like sound in a huge space that calls for a "symbiont-awakening"...
this is one of my personal favorites: it has a sense of cold/loneliness-
yet there is tranquility through cavernous sounds which gives balance.
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Sphere 2Sphere 2 (audio download)
Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] this is the second aspect of the sphere from "Terra Lumina Soundtrack"...see "Sphere 1" from more info
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] continuation of the previous piece (with the same title), but with an incessant pulse, to the verge of OCD...from the "Terra Lumina Soundtrack" see "Sphere 1" for more info
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Sphere 3Sphere 3 (audio download)
Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] this is the third aspect of the sphere...from the "Terra Lumina Soundtrack", see "Sphere 1" for more info
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IzzyGruveIzzyGruve (audio download)
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trancy...has a high energy backdrop, with a bass track that supports all the electronic fun above it...
from the "Terra Lumina Soundtrack"
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Izzy Eye-DantzIzzy Eye-Dantz (audio download)
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trancy-strange sounds as sonic paint with a kickin' pulse
which eventually leaves, and the fabric of the music softens to a more eastern tone...
also from the "Terra Lumina Soundtrack", See "Sphere 1" for further info...
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Preview is VERY quiet for about 30 seconds. Part of the "Digital Ghosts" series: this is the first LIVE performance at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT. B'Racz on EMU sampler/piano; and the - then - members of LOOP2.4.3: Kelly Cotter, John Gage, and Thomas Kozumplik playing percussion instruments. The samples were derived from a very badly scratched LP of Miles' "Porgy and Bess", and sound designed. VERSION II coming soon, as well.
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Pre-LudePre-Lude (audio download)
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This Pre-lude is a sound design I made for a Halloween party using Horror FX samples.
Its the sound design mixed in throughout Effin Izzy's "Moan Trance-dance".
It had some success, and folks asked for it, so I thought I'd post it online for free.techs could maybe ACTUALLY get beck to me while I still have my teeth...
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] dead-frog electric ritual-music...be careful. I took some pre-existing sounds, and grooves, and played with them in Abelton Live (love that program, but its almost too much fun) no frogs were harmed, killed, insulted, or intimidated during the making of this work...
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] fun sexy-monster-techno-dance...created for a fun Holloween party at the Stony Creek Puppet-house in CT...it moans with pleasure to the beat...trick or treat...(do behave...). Simply made using Groovemaker and FX samples, with some editing...its a no brainer...and THAT's why its free...have fun.
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] from "Eight Etudes" for solo piano, this etude takes a dash of the Stravinsky Sonata opening's "arrival at C", and goes elsewhere. Fun, short, jazzy, quirky and challanging. The pianist must overcome several large technical hurdles to successfully perform this work.
Recorded live performance.
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Download: $0.90 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] First movement of a three movment electronic work
created in the Hartt School's computer music lab using ancient programs like Turbosynth and Sound Designer II.
The sounds collected for the creation of the first movement yeilded a strange and primitive world
(somewhat avant-garde), which set the ritualistic tone of the whole three movement work.
Yet, these sounds came from ordinary sources recorded right in the lab...can you guess them?
As for the title? ...read Carlos' book...
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Second Movement of three: fire, electricity, burn, explosion, build (See First Movement for more info). Almost unbearble electronic-fire-noise...clears the upper sinuses...
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Third movement of three; a digital "rite". (See First Movement for more info). This was made WAAAY before loopers, and audio stretching, and beat-mapping existed...so its got a little irregularity which I find refreshing in this OVER-QUANTIZED no-sweat-digital-beat world...its too easy...made purely in a two-track editor.
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] "Dirge" was written in memorium for my niece, Ydune Gibson
who was tragically killed in a car accident when she was only 21
The work obsesses around a major third, with various attempts to break away.
Slow and quiet, it has bursts of tonality and dissonance and gradually fades away.
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"X-fields" is a 5 movement work for large orchestra. This is the first movement.
It begins with non-pitch and somewhat of a "soundmass mentality";
change occurs through "cataclysm", where the fabric of the music
becomes "too heavy or disturbed" by its own weight.
(sampler realization).
Full Score and Parts available.
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] The second movement may be described as a "search" for melodic material, much as a floating particle will attract other particles. Please see first movement for more details (sampler realization).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] The third movement uses "flocking" as a technique to create precisely notated sonorities that sound improvised. This is perhaps that "happiest" sounding of all the movements. Please see first movement for further info (sampler realization).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] The fourth movement is a higher energy movement that focuses on moving back and forth, oscillating, and breaking away. Please see first movement for further info (sampler realization).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] The fifth movement is a "return" to the second movement, and goes elsewhere because "its been changed" by the intervening movements. Please see first movement for further info. Full score available.
(sampler realization).
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Download: $0.99 [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Created as a beginning section for Loop2.4.3's "RadioHead Suite", this work has led an interesting life of its own. Ritualistic and unrelenting distorted rhythmic sounds...
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The TripThe Trip (audio download)
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Created for a live-radio broadcast of "The Shadow".
I love the double-meaning because the main character (at this point in the show)
has been forced to ingest some peyote...and I was ON a train trip.
The train sounds are recordings I made from the New Haven to NYC commuter ride.
The voice is that of actor Tom Murphy "altered slightly"...
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Emigrations 1Emigrations 1 (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] The name of the game was to try to have no musical pre-meditations; rather, to react to what "surfaces", and see where it leads...Performed by a classically trained pianist inspired by Keith Jarret, Cecil Taylor, Bill Evans, Debussy and a tiny touch of Scriabine and Ligeti. Live recording.
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Tin ManTin Man (audio download)
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starts out "normally enough": acoustic guitar with vocals like bad Neil Young...
then, it moves somewhere quite distantly "electronic"
and never quite makes it back.
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Himalaya v2Himalaya v2 (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] This is version 2 of the dance piece used in "Terra Mirabila" Its a high energy segment of the show, I had a lot of fun with cross-rhythms, etc. It will be very trippy out in the huge quarry canyon with lights, lasers and shadow dance...(especially with those IMMMENSE speaker cabinets). BPM 160
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"Trem-ble""Trem-ble" (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Gentle-quasi minimalist...delicate, and flowing. This work was used in a outside spectacle-laser-light show called "Terra Mirabila". This is a sinple SAMPLER REALIZATION. I will rewriting it in the near future to cello, vibes (or pan) and piano. This is a realization of the score with Rhodes and piano sounds. Go to www.proj2k.org for some truly spectacular images of the past quarry-show events.
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POE1POE1 (audio download)
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Chamber work for Clarinet, Cello, two percussion, counter-tenor, (and optional narrator)
based on Poe's "Ms, found in a bottle" short story.
Was the headline work with the Puppetsweat group at the International Puppet Festival in NYC at LaMama.
Vadim Lando, clarinet; Eric Dahlin, cello; Thomas Kozumplik, both percussion;
Istvan Peter B'Racz, piano; Lawrence Zukof, countertenor; conducted by Edward Ludvigsen.
SCORE AND PARTS AVAILABLE.
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POE2POE2 (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD and FREE PREVIEW] Poe's "Man of the crowd" short story was the starting point. The second movement is electronic. I removed the vowels of Poe's text, sometimes inserting noise, pitches, layering, as a crowd flows. Very strange story...hence the music.
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POE3POE3 (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD and FREE PREVIEW] Third movement is back to acoustic instruments (same configuration and performers as the first). The story behind this one is the "Telltale Heart". Perhaps one of the most famous and eerie of Poe's well known works. At the point where the main character begins to hear a distant noise the pianist is instructed to bow a detuned guitar. SCORE AND PARTS AVAILABLE
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GooCerealishGooCerealish (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] This work utilizes a note-matrix that I have been working with for a few years. Its 15 minutes long. I presented the "score" to the members of Goorilla, with a few rules, and this is the realization they came up with. It is slow, expansive, and sensual. It is 12-tone only as an ancient philosophy, I moved on from the rigidity, and wrote-out some basic "game-rules" for performance. Performed by Goorilla, this is my absolute favorite that we did together next to "I have an Ant Problem, and Nosferatu.
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Fourth and final movement of "How the world came to be" performed and composed by Goorilla. (B'Racz recording).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Third movement of four from "How the world came to be". Performed and composed by Goorilla. (B'Racz recording).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLAOD] Second movement of four from "How the World came to be". Performed and composed by Goorilla. (B'Racz recording).
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Performed and composed by the members of Goorilla, this is the first of four movements. (B'Racz recording).
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Goo-W[e]Goo-W[e] (audio download)
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Goo-Jam1[e]Goo-Jam1[e] (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] This is one of those moments when you scramble to hit record and capture something that wont ever happen again. What I like about this piece is that it starts out with a certain feel, and slowly evolves into a completely different work, never looking back- yet it has a sense of cohesion. Performed live by Goorilla (B'Racz recording).
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Goo-scifiGoo-scifi (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Alien...one of my favorites. A friend remarked he'd rather go to the dentist than listen to it...again. Then, I knew it "had" something (B'Racz recording).
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GooedlegupGooedlegup (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] At least three different time-zones in this "stylistically confused", fun, and short work. Performed by Goorilla; Di Ponio, B'Racz, and Ludvigsen.
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Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] This is a quirky jazz-influenced 12-tone row in the head with a different iteration in the B section...can you follow it? The "head" was composed by B'Racz, then performed by Goorilla. (B'Racz recording).
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Goo-space1Goo-space1 (audio download)
Download: FREE [MP3 DOWNLOAD] Goorilla formed as three composers who are performers, as well. It was a truly special union. We created much music. This is one of our rather strange little pieces. (B'Racz recording).
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ISTVAN PETER B'RACZ
BIO
As a composer, Istvan's work ranges from solo instrumental to large orchestral writing.
He enjoys creating music in the "acoustic" chamber-music traditions of classical music,
creating purely electronic music, electronica, as well as music in the pop traditions.
As a performer, he is interested in performing new works for the keyboard
and various electronic elements mixing styles, traditions and influences.
Istvan studied composition, electronic music, and conducting at the Hartt School of Music,
piano at the Yale School of Music, Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary
(where he was awarded a Fulbright Grant), composition and piano at the Oberlin Conservatory,
Neighborhood Music School (NMS), and the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA).
He has taught piano and composition as well as music technology at
Central Connecticut State University, as well as at ECA.
Currently, he teaches piano, composition and theory at NMS;
records, edits, produces CDs of concerts for Professonal Musicians
and audition CDs students through his business BRACZsound.
He has had his works performed, and has given performances,
in many venues throughout the United States, as well as Europe.
Istvan especially enjoys working with performers and composers closely,
and is the Artistic Director and founder of SOUNDunderGROUND (formerly New Haven Worx),
a concert series devoted to new music, composers, performers, poets, and other artists.
In the few waking moments that are left,
he composes, practices, and loves to play with his cats' minds with a laser pointer...
Istvan B'Racz's Blog
2006 Jan 09 2006 Jan 09 ISTVAN PETER B'RACZ
BIO
As a composer, Istvan's work ranges from solo instrumental to large orchestral writing.
He enjoys creating music in the "acoustic" chamber-music traditions of classical music,
creating purely electronic music, electronica, as well as music in the pop traditions.
As a performer, he is interested in performing new works for the keyboard
and various electronic elements mixing styles, traditions and influences.
Istvan studied composition, electronic music, and conducting at the Hartt School of Music,
piano at the Yale School of Music, Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary
(where he was awarded a Fulbright Grant), composition and piano at the Oberlin Conservatory,
Neighborhood Music School (NMS), and the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA).
He has taught piano and composition as well as music technology at
Central Connecticut State University, as well as at ECA.
Currently, he teaches piano, composition and theory at NMS;
records, edits, produces CDs of concerts for Professonal Musicians
and audition CDs students through his business BRACZsound.
He has had his works performed, and has given performances,
in many venues throughout the United States, as well as Europe.
Istvan especially enjoys working with performers and composers closely,
and is the Artistic Director and founder of SOUNDunderGROUND (formerly New Haven Worx),
a concert series devoted to new music, composers, performers, poets, and other artists.
In the few waking moments that are left,
he composes, practices, and loves to play with his cats' minds with a laser pointer...
2005 Nov 10
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