“West Coast composer Carl Stone was one of the first to plug into the possibilities offered by digital synthesizers, samplers and effects... While Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa were flamboyantly promoting sample based hiphop, and John Oswald was openly flaunting the art of plunderphonics, Carl Stone developed his own idiosyncratic take on sonic bricolage.” – The Wire

Delighted to welcome back pioneering composer, Carl Stone, for a show coinciding with the release of a newly compiled double LP on Unseen Worlds – Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties – which showcases the soothing, hallucinatory side of his slow-evolving, time-bending composition.

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, a composer with heavyweight CalArts credentials (he studied at the LA art school with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney), who operates with a rare sense of mischief and intrigue. Across a career spanning five decades Stone has proven a prolific and imaginative voice in electronic composition, mashing together notions of high and low culture and playfully re-contextualising diverse ethnographic materials. To this day he finds consistently engaging ways to present his live performances via real-time processing, multi-channel works and collaborations.

Now dividing his time between Toyko and LA, Stone's formidable canon of work has recently been in the spotlight via two masterful collections of material on Brooklyn imprint Unseen Worlds: “Electronic Music from The Seventies and Eighties” (2016) and “Electronic Music from The Eighties and Nineties” (2018).

“Stunning …. full of purring drones that at first appear to hardly be moving, only to have them slowly slide and reveal infinite amounts of overtones…lovely, prickly, meditative, and maddening.” – Pitchfork