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Mark Trayle | |
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 Trayle at Sea and Space Gallery : photo Lara Bank | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mark Evan Garrabrant |
| Born | (1955-01-17)17 January 1955 San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Died | 18 February 2015(2015-02-18) (aged 60) Ventura, California |
| Genres | Electronic,installation,improvisation |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Labels | Nonesuch, Artifact,Atavistic,Nine Winds,Tzadik |
| Website | www |
Mark Trayle, born Mark Evan Garrabrant (January 17, 1955, inSan Jose, California – February 18, 2015, inVentura, California) was a California-based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music,improvisation, installations, and compositions forchamber ensembles. His work has been noted for its use of re-engineered consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for electronic music performances and networked media installations.[1]
Mark Trayle studied composition at theUniversity of Oregon withHomer Keller and atMills College withRobert Ashley,David Behrman, andDavid Rosenboom. Under Berhman's tutelage, he began building hybrid digital-analog electronics and used those (often with electric guitar and homemade performance interfaces) throughout the 1980s.From the late 1980s through the mid-1990s his work focused on the use of alternative performance interfaces to guidealgorithmic compositions, as well as composing for and performing withThe Hub. He also made his first sound/media installations during this period. In 1996 he moved from theSan Francisco area to Southern California to teach atCalArts. Soon after, he composed several pieces for acoustic instruments with electronics. True North, Periodic Transmissions at Regular Intervals (are not allowed), and Propagation, Reflection, and Absorption are entirely acoustic in nature but use electronics and sensors to create real-time scores for the performers. Later works such as bitpool, sierranevada, and Bender use electronics that allow the players to triggerelectroacoustic sounds.
Trayle's music has been the subject of articles inStrumenti Musicali and Virtual (Italy),Keyboard, and "Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century" (Grove/Atlantic), and he has written articles forLeonardo Music Journal (US/UK) andMusikTexte (Germany). He has recorded for the Artifact,Atavistic Records,CRI, Creative Sources, Inial, Los Angeles River, Elektra/Nonesuch, andTzadik labels. He taught in the Herb Alpert School of Music atCalArts from 1996 - 2015.
Mark Trayle died on February 18, 2015, of pancreatic cancer, in his home in Ventura, CA.
Trayle has performed and exhibited at experimental music and new media venues and festivals in theU.S.,Canada, andEurope. He has received grants from Arts International, theAmerican Composers Forum, The Japan Foundation, and theNational Endowment for the Arts. Commissions have come fromRadio Bremen, Champs D’Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene,Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. He has been an artist-in-residence atMills College,STEIM, andThe LAB.
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