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J.K. Randall

p, *1929
Classical and Electronic

J. K. Randall has described himself as a “pitchfreak." He was born in Cleveland in June 16, 1929, and lived in Princeton, NJ until his death on May 28, 2014. He lived with his wife of 57 years, two dogs, a turtle, and a cat. He studied piano with Leonard Shure and composition with Herbert Elwell, Alexei Haieff, George Thaddeus Jones, and Milton Babbitt, and taught at Princeton University from 1957 until his retirement in 1991. In the early ‘60s, he and Godfrey Winham inaugurated a computer music facility at Princeton, using a modified version of Bell Laboratories’ Music IV program. He has composed for piano, voice, violin and computer, marimba and violin (“Svejk”), saxophone and percussion, C-Sound, and most recently for Midi. Writing words, and especially words about, or reflective of, music, has been focal for Mr. Randall, as exemplified in Compose Yourself and Being About Music (2 vols., with Benjamin Boretz).

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Electronic
  • Spoken Word
Discography



Title Artist Year Type
Open Space 19J.K. Randall, Benjamin Boretz2004Album
Open Space 13J.K. Randall, Benjamin Boretz - Martin Goldray2001Album
Cleophila / The Fish / Svejk / Some Old Troubadour SongsJ.K. Randall1999Album
Gap 2, Gap 3, Gap 4, Gap 5J.K. Randall1997Album
Open Space 7Gyula Csapó, J.K. Randall1995Album
Open Space 4Steven Mackey / J.K. Randall1993Album
Open Space 5Benjamin Boretz, J.K. Randall1993Album
Open Space 1Benjamin Boretz, J.K. Randall1989Album
Electronic MusicJ.K. Randall / Robert Ceely / Alfredo del Mónaco1974Album
Computer MusicJ.K. Randall, Barry Vercoe, Charles Dodge1970Album
A Mitzvah For The Dead For Violin And Tape / Lyric Variations For Violin And ComputerMichael Sahl / J.K. Randall With Paul Zukofsky1968Album
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