Philip Corner: You Can Only Be Who You Are (interview)

Even Philip Corner's resumé looks like a poem. It's possible to tell that he was born in 1933, had some kind of an education, and then embarked on over thirty years of projects, collaborations and experiments. He has worked with many composer/performers and artists of all kinds; he performs, and has been performed, all over the world. He is particularly known for his graphic scores, usually for indeterminate instrumentation; his contribution to minimalism; and his association with Fluxus and "Tone Roads, "the latter an important new music series of which he was co-founder. He presently teaches at Livingston College at Rutgers University. He is a regular member of Gamelan Son of Lion in New York City, and recently appeared with them at the First International Gamelan Festival in Vancouver. Here he explains his unique perspective on culture and music, and his approach to composing for gamelan.