Mizelle, Dary John
Biography
Born: 12/06/1940
Country: Oklahoma
Studies: California State University of California, San Diego
Teachers:
Dary John Mizelle was an original member of the group that founded SOURCE--music of the avant garde magazine. His mentors include: Larry Austin, Richard Swift, Jerome Rosen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, Roger Reynolds, Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros, and Kenneth Gaburo.
His music involves mastery of instrumental, electronic and vocal resources as well as his own performance on several different instruments and voice. He works in many different genres and media. His SPANDA project consists of thirteen days of music with a coherent macrostructure, which includes music theater, opera, orchestra works, choral works, electronic music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal music as well as combinations and integrations of all these.
A prolific composer with works in all media, he has composed over 450 compositions and more than 40 jazz tunes. He refers to his music as "multidimensional" in scope and practices his musical art in multiple tuning systems ("macrotonality") and simultaneous tonal, modal and atonal systems ("polyatonality") as well as multiple rhythmic systems (systemic polyrhythm). His electronic music uses the techniques he refers to as "microsynthesis" (mixing of very short - less than 50 millisecond - elements of different sonic energy components) and "isomorphic synthesis" (the compression of musical macrostructure to the level of waveforms) as well as more conventional techniques such as additive synthesis, granular synthesis and timbral transformation of acoustical sounds. He has held academic appointments at University of South Florida, Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he was head of the Technology In Music And Related Arts (TIMARA) program, and State University of New York at Purchase where he was Chair of the Composition Program. He makes his home in Westchester County, New York.
Works for Percussion
Solo Works
Polytempus 2
Spellbound
First Snow
Ensemble Works
Lake Mountain Thunder - 12 Players; English Horn
Transmutations and Metamorphoses
Lament for Humanity
Polytempus 4 - 4 Players
Ritmus Tempus 2012 - 2 Players
Groove - 2 Players
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