Charles Amirkhanian
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Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian origin. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music.
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George Antheil
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George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the e
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…in San Francisco, which he co-founded with Jim Newman in 1992. He has played a key role in recording and championing the work of Conlon Nancarrow and George Antheil, among others. In 1984, the American Music Center awarded him its Letter of Distinction for service to American composers through his work at KPFA FM…
Detail from a portrait of Antheil, by American photographer Berenice Abbott, c. 1927
Journal entry by a young Antheil, showing a violin and hand saw, captioned, "Drawing of a violin and the thing to play it with"
Antheil photographed with his signature bangs, c. 1922
12 Rue de l'Odéon, Antheil's home in Paris, as seen in 2004