George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is a composer and improviser whose electronic and computer music, computer-based installations, and notated and improvisatory forms have been documented on more than 120 recordings. Lewis’s widely acclaimed book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008) was a 2009 recipient of the American Book Award.Seminar Readings
Jacques Attali. "Composing," In: Noise: the political economy of music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985: pp. 133-148.
Stephen J. Greenblatt. "Improvisation and power." In: Literature and society. Ed. by Edward W. Said. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980: pp. 57-99.
George E. Lewis. "Mobilitas Animi: improvising technologies, intending chance," Parallax (Leeds), vol. 13, no. 4 (2007): 108-122.
David Rokeby. “Transforming mirrors: subjectivity and control in interactive media.” In: Critical issues in electronic media. Ed. by Simon Penny. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995: pp. 133-158.
Jacques Attali. "Composing," In: Noise: the political economy of music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985: pp. 133-148.
Stephen J. Greenblatt. "Improvisation and power." In: Literature and society. Ed. by Edward W. Said. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980: pp. 57-99.
George E. Lewis. "Mobilitas Animi: improvising technologies, intending chance," Parallax (Leeds), vol. 13, no. 4 (2007): 108-122.
David Rokeby. “Transforming mirrors: subjectivity and control in interactive media.” In: Critical issues in electronic media. Ed. by Simon Penny. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995: pp. 133-158.
