ENSEMBLE OF THE DREAMINGS


MARTIN HERMAN mherman@csulb.edu currently teaches at California State University, Long Beach where he directs the Gerald Strang Electronic Music Studio and teaches composition. Recent compositions include The Fractal Bow for symphony orchestra, premiered by the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra in 1994, and The Scarlet Letter, an opera in 2 Acts performed at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in 1994. He has spent time in Paris on a Fulbright Grant and was recently guest composer at the Janacek Academy in Brno, and Academy of Musical Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. During the summers, he teaches at the California State Summer School for the Arts at Cal Arts where he co-directs the electroacoustic music studio. A CD with his Strange Attractors for piano was released in March 1997 on the Albany label.

WILLIAM HOUSTON has been active as a composer, librettist and performer in the Los Angeles area since 1980, first as a founding member of the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra, and later as the founder/director of Domes, a post-modern performance orchestra. His opera, The XTC of St. Teresa, was commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the Japan America Theater. His second opera Taroterror premiered in concert form at the Wallenboyd Theatre. Venues Mr. Houston has performed in also include Royce Hall, Lhasa Club, System M, Double Rocking "G" Gallery, U.C. Irvine, Bogarts, and other galleries, clubs and universities. Bill has been active in multimedia since 1984.

DAVID LOEB is a painter currently dividing his time between Paris and New York. He has had group and solo shows since 1978 throughout the U.S. and Europe and has received numerous grants and awards for his work including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Fulbright grant to France, and a Ford Foundation grant. He has been a scenic artist for the Metropolitan opera, New York City, and a painting/drawing instructor at colleges in Paris, New York, and Vermont.

DAVID ORTEGA dortega@education.com has been involved with electronic art and multimedia technology for the past seven years. He has written works for live instrumentalists using interactive electronics, and electroacoustic pieces generated by computer. Mr. Ortega has degrees from the University of California at Irvine where he studied Psychology, programming and data structures. He has expertise in HTML, Pascal, and Lingo programming languages as well as mastery of a wide variety of music synthesis, sampling, and sound design applications. Currently he is sound designer for CD ROM development at Davidson and Associates in Torrance, CA.

ADRIANA VERDIE DE VAS ROMERO holds experience as a composer and conductor, and has been awarded several prizes in composition and arranging, both in her native country and in the U.S. Her most recent work, Capitulo Siete for speaker, choir, alto flute and dancer, has received several performances including two by the Los Angeles based group "I Cantori." Other works include Ten Minutes Past Six, a collaborative work for narrator, acoustic ensemble and interactive computer, as well as several song sets and acoustic chamber pieces.

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