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Richard Maxfield

Composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music.

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Richard Vance Maxfield was a composer whose work spanned instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music. He was among the first Americans to teach purely electronic music, and his innovations with magnetic tape included using the erase head as a sound source and re-editing tapes before each performance. He co-curated early proto-Fluxus events with La Monte Young and participated in the publication of An Anthology of Chance Operations.

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From the source: “Richard Vance Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, Maxfield studied at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley (with Roger Sessio”

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From the source: “Richard Vance Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, Maxfield studied at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley (with Roger Sessio”

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From the source: “Born in Seattle, Maxfield studied at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley (with Roger Sessions) and privately with Ernst Krenek in Los Angeles.”

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