Sound and silence are allies in the minimal yet intricate music of Lou Bunk. In both his acoustic and electro-acoustic music, timbre unfolds alongside harmony, while extended instrumental techniques, microtones, and a rejection of the virtuosic paints an alien and sometimes barren soundscape.
A native of the Connecticut suburbs, Lou’s earliest compositions were noise improvisations, and four-track collage experiments. Educated at Washington University (MA Composition) and Brandeis University (completing a PhD in Composition and Theory), he has studied music composition with Eric Chasalow, Michael Tenzer, David Rakowski, Ladislav Kubik, Marty Boykan, and Yehudi Wyner. In his home town Somerville, MA, Lou sits on the board of the Somerville Arts Council and co-produces the concert series Open Sound. Lou has taught harmony and ear training at Boston Conservatory and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire where he teaches various course related to computer music.
Lou’s music is the recipient of several awards (SEAMUS Student Commission Competition, finalist, Irving Fine Fellowship for Music Composition, ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, finalist), and has been performed in dozens of venues, in the US and Europe; SEAMUS, ICMC, Spark, CCRMA, June inBuffalo, The Computer Arts Festival in Padova, Italy, an American Composers series in Trossingen, Germany, Conservatory van Amsterdam, and the Centre for Music Composition and Performance in Athens Greece. Some current projects include a new piece for viola, voice and electronics, working with kids in Dorchester on a Hip Hop Opera, a dissertation on the music of Morton Feldman, and formulating new ways to teach the world to sing a happy song.
EA Forum
June 21st 2008 2lous performed on Open Sound. Also on the bill were Jeffrey Allport, Greg Kelly, Ernst Karel and Ricardo Donoso.
May 2nd 2008 The Shana's Mango Experience performed Stockhausen's 'Unbegrenzt' for a Stockhausen tribute concert at Brandeis University. Also playing was Onda and Basically Science
April 27th 2008 2lous performed some electro-acoustic noise for a very special Open Sound at The Nave Gallery.
April 7th 2008 2lous performed on the Coup d’etat music series
8PM, Piano Craft Guild
791 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
w/ Vic Rawlings / Mike Bullock and Calliope Quartet
April 4th 2008 Rane Moore played 'Being and Becoming' in Somerville MA on the concert series Open Sound.
February 24th 2008 I gave a presentation to the Boston Microtonal Society that focused on my pieces 'Luna' and 'Being and Becoming''
February 12th 2008 'Player Piano' was performed at the University of Southern California by Veronika Krausas' player piano. The concert was a CD realease for the Player Piano Project. The CD can be purchased on CD Baby.
February 5th 2008 Eric Honour performed 'Luna' at The Centre for Music Composition and Performance in Athens Greece as part of a lecture-recital series.
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