Robert Erickson

I am sorry to report that the composer and author Robert Erickson died
Thursday, April 24 in Encinitas, CA after a very long illness that keep him
bedridden for most of the last 15 years. Mr. Erickson was sympathetic to
tuning experiments and wrote an insightful article on Archytas's tunings
to which I referred in my book and which has recently been published.
He used a variety of natural and instrumental sounds in his music,
including
new instruments based on metal rods stroked to excite longitudinal rather
than transverse vibrations.

He was one of the founding members of the Music Department at UCSD.
According to the obituary in the Saturday San Diego Union-Tribune, a
memorial service is still in the planning stage. In lieu of flowers,
donations to The Friends of Music are suggested. More information
may be obtained by calling (619) 534-4830.

--John



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>The piece is called "Nineteen" and I wrote it for the CD project,
>"Nineteen for the 90s" which we still haven't seen completed (hint).

I don't know about others on the list here, notably contributors to that
project, but I haven't heard from Brian about that project for ... nearly a
year now. I suspect it's dead. Last I heard he was disgruntled about
equipment problems and about not having sold all 1000 of the Ivor Darreg
CDs.



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