*1944 US, Chicago
Composer of Classical and Electronic
American composer of electro-acoustic music, instrumental music and opera born November 7, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. A pioneer in the field of computer music, Dashow was one of the founders of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale at the University of Padova, where he composed the first works of computer music In Italy. He has taught at MIT, Princeton University, the Centro para la Difusion di Musica Contemporanea in Madrid, and at the Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon. In addition, he lectures and conducts master-classes extensively in the U.S. and Europe. His research includes the development of a complete language for digital sound synthesis. His awards include commissions and grants from the Bourges Festival, Guggenheim Foundation, Linz Ars Electronica, Rockefeller Foundation, La Biennale di Venezia, Fromm Foundation, RAI (Italian National Radio/Television), Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, Prague Musica Nova, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Il Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, National Endowment for the Arts, Harvard Music Association (Boston). His articles appear in Perspectives of New Music, Computer Music Journal, Interface, La Musica. He has won numerous international awards; most recently, he was awarded the 2000 Magisterium at the 27th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art, Bourges, for the work "...AT OTHER TIMES, THE DISTANCES." Dashow currently lives in Rome, Italy.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Oedipus Orca / La Orca / Una Spirale Di Nebbia (Original Soundtracks) | James Dashow / Federico Monti Arduini / Ivan Vandor | 2011 | Compil. |
Music Text | Wesley Fuller, Shirish Korde, James Dashow, Thomas DeLio, William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, John Ashbery, P. Inman | 1999 | Album |
DeLio / Dashow | James Dashow, Thomas DeLio | 1997 | Album |
Selected Works | James Dashow | 1996 | Album |
Dashow: Morfologie / Punti di Vista / Reconstructions; DeLio: anti-paysage / Of / Though / so again / on again / of again | James Dashow, Thomas DeLio | 1995 | Album |
James Dashow / Bruce Saylor / Ezra Sims | James Dashow / Bruce Saylor / Ezra Sims | 1990 | Album |
Archimedes - Mnemonics - Oro, Argento & Legno | James Dashow | 1989 | Album |
New Computer Music | Clarence Barlow, James Dashow, Stephan Kaske, Paul Lansky, Curtis Roads, Michel Waisvisz | 1987 | Album |
Alessandro Sbordoni, James Dashow | Alessandro Sbordoni, James Dashow | 1985 | Single |
Computer Music - Musica Elettronica | James Dashow | 1983 | Album |
Computer Directions | Paul Lansky / James Dashow With George Shirley | 1982 | Album |
Oedipus Orca Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film | James Dashow | 1977 | Album |