George Lewis
George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. Lewis's work as composer, improvisor, performer and interpreter explores electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and notated and improvisative forms, and is documented on more than 120 recordings.
The interview can be downloaded as a video podcast (129.9 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 53 MB).
Lewis's recent publications include A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008), "Stan Douglas's Suspiria: Genealogies of Recombinant Narrativity" (2008) and "Living with Creative Machines: An Improvisor Reflects" (2007). Recent musical compositions include a commissioned work by the Scottish Arts Council for the Glasgow Improvisors' Orchestra (December, 2007) and an exhibition, Rio Negro II, a robotic-acoustic sound installation at the Houston Contemporary Art Museum (May, 2007) and Harvestworks, a new work for robotic sound sculptures, which premiered at the 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center in New York City (May, 2007).
Professor Lewis spoke at the University of MInnesota on "Mobilitas Animi: Improvising Technologies, Intending Chance" thanks to invitation from the Music and Sounds Studies Collaborative.