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Oral History Project

The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music

Eric Chasalow and Barbara Cassidy, curators

Currently comprising about 50 hours of digitally recorded interviews, The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music began in 1996 out of our desire to capture a first-person history of the pioneering composers, scientists, and engineers from 1950 to present. Age and illness have since claimed several interview subjects and many other potential subjects. Luciano Berio, Earl Brown, Herbert Brün, David Lewin, and Iannis Xenakis have all died in recent years, underscoring the urgency of this work, if it is to be as inclusive and broad as we envision.

For more information on the project visit the Video Archive website .

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Interviewer Biographies

Eric Chasalow is the rare composer who is as comfortable with electro-acoustic music as he is with music for traditional ensembles. Chasalow’s music has been embraced by performers throughout the world, with recent performances from Boston to Berlin and San Francisco to Seoul. A member of the Brandeis University faculty since 1990, Chasalow directs the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. He produces the biennial BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon, on the Boston CyberArts Festival. Since 1996 he has curated The Video Archive of Electroacoustic Music, an oral history project chronicling the pioneer electronic music composers and engineers from 1950 to the present. A product of the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Chasalow studied composition with Mario Davidovsky and flute with Harvey Sollberger. He has been honored by the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
http://www.ericchasalow.com

Barbara Cassidy currently works as a non-profit management professional in the arts and humanities sector. She has a rich and eclectic background, having worked in Public Television documentary production and before that, as a professional singer, dancer, and actor. She received the BFA from Boston Conservatory and the MA in Women’s Studies and Sociology from Brandeis University.

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