In 2004, at the request of Crawford Seeger’s estate, he completed and edited her major monograph, The Music of American Folk Song. He has edited 20 of Johanna Magdalena Beyer’s scores, as well as scores by Ruth Crawford Seeger and others. ![]() His articles are published in such journals as Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Music Theory, Computer Music Journal, Musical Quarterly, Leonardo, and Leonardo Music Journal (of which he was the founding editor). Polansky is the cofounder and codirector of Frog Peak Music (A Composers’ Collective), and from 1980 to 1990 he worked at the Mills Center for Contemporary Music, where he was one of the coauthors (with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom) of the computer music language HMSL, and a contributor to the program SoundHack (by Tom Erbe). (He has written a short opera in ASL and created a series of articles and festivals about poetry and performance in ASL.) Recently, he produced a major festival of American Sign Language (ASL) poetry at UC Santa Cruz. A member of several contemporary music ensembles, he served as the curator for the Downtown Ensemble (NYC) for a number of years and as part of Trio (with Kui Dong and Christian Wolff) for over a decade. In 2010, he wrote the score for Stacey Steers’s Night Hunter, an experimental animation chosen for the Telluride, Sundance, and Rotterdam film festivals and the New York New Films/New Directors festival at Lincoln Center.Īs a performer (primarily on guitar and mandolin), Polansky has premiered and recorded works by Christian Wolff, Barbara Monk Feldman, Michael Parsons, James Tenney, Lou Harrison, Lois V Vierk, Ron Nagorcka, Daniel Goode, David Mahler, and many others. CDs devoted exclusively to his music are available on New World Records, Artifact, and Cold Blue, and many of his pieces are anthologized on other labels. Larry Polansky is a prolific composer, theorist, performer, writer, and teacher whose works are performed frequently around the world.
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