S t u d i o F i v e B e e k m a n

sound and intermedia gallery

Tom Hamilton

Wish You Were Here

an Electronic Sound Environment

Saturdays

2 - 9 PM

November 21 - December 12, 1998

Rapidly shifting music is produced by the changing interplay of many individual elements. The observer is kept in the present-time through kaleidoscopic changes in texture and counterpoint. All the forces of the music develop the expanded moment, the here-and-now.

Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 25 years. He often presents his 'Formal and Informal Music' in an ongoing series of installations, concerts and recordings that contrast structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments.

His installation of electronic sound titled 'Drains and Pipes Forever' was presented at Studio Five Beekman in November, 1997.He was a featured artist in summer 1996 at Sound Symposium in St. Johns, Newfoundland, where he presented his installation with performance, 'Off-Hour Wait State'. The CD recording of this music on O.O. Discs, features Thomas Buckner, Roscoe Mitchell, Ralph Samuelson, Peter Zummo and Jonathan Haas. HamiltonÕs electronic work, 'Sebastian's Shadow', described as "longer ramblings on a short Bach fugue"â was just released on CD by Monroe St. Music. It was a featured work at Symphony Space's 'Wall to Wall Bach' (NYC) in March 1998.

Cited in Kyle Gann's American Music in the 20th Century as being "New York's leading improviser on analog synthesizers", he continues an ongoing duo with trombonist Peter Zummo, and has performed and recorded with the improvising quartet Act of Finding with Bruce Arnold, Thomas Buckner and Ratzo B. Harris. An active participant in New York's new music scene, Hamilton co-produces the 'Cooler In the Shade'/'Warmer By the Stove' series of music and intermedia at Lotus Music and Dance.

Since 1990, Hamilton has been a member of composer Robert Ashley's touring opera ensemble, performing sound processing and mixing in both recordings and concerts.

For more information:

web site: www.goddard.edu/wgdr/kalvos/hamilto.html

e-mail address: thamiltn@aol.com