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DOUGLAS C WADLE
Biography: Douglas C. Wadle was born in 1977 in Hammond, Indiana and currently resides in Los Angeles. He studied Comparative Literature and Music at New York University (BA), Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (MA), and Music Composition, with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts (MFA). Wadle has composed for various chamber ensembles and is an active performer in, primarily, interdisciplinary contexts, utilizing trombone, voice, text, visual arts and movement. He performs regularly in a quartet of research-based improvisers under the direction of dancer/poet Simone Forti. His work focuses on formal grammars and logics expressed through rational tuning systems and experimental notation and relying on studies of aural and visual perception. Wadle co-authored the book Unbuttoned Sleeves (Beyond Baroque Books, 2006) with Simone Forti, Terrence Luke Johnson, and Sarah Swenson. His visual art scores, Amphiboly and Logos prior Logos, are included in the anthology, Notations21 (Mark Batty Publisher, 2009). He is a contributing editor for (The Open Space Magazine). His music has been recorded on Exit Records. He is currently adjunct faculty in music theory and analysis at the California Institute of the Arts. Resources:
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