Barry Anderson - Domingus (1978) - 8/14

"Domingus" is a poem by Paul Hyland. It was arranged into a radiophonic drama for BBC Radio 3 in 1978. John Franklyn Robbins recited the verses and Barry Anderson contributed the electro-acoustic tape. Anderson created it at BBC Studios Manchester, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, and the West Square Electronic Music Studio, London.
Here you can listen to short samples (raw tonal material) that Barry Anderson created in the pre-production phase for "Domingus".
Barry Anderson (Composer)
* Feb. 22, 1935 Stratford (Taranaki, New Zealand)
† May 27, 1987 Paris
Michael Barrie Gordon Anderson was educated at Wanganui Collegiate. He travelled to England in 1952 on a New Zealand Government bursary to study piano, viola and composition at the Royal Academy. Piano studies with Edwin Fischer and Paul Badura-Skoda until 1960. From 1956 he also began freelance teaching and performing, and in 1960 became involved in adult education.
In 1971 Anderson was appointed to a music post at the South Bank Institute (Inner London Education Authority), later becoming HOD music, dance and drama. Founder Director, 1971 of the Institute's West Square Electronic Music Studio, Kensington. 1979 Founder Chairman of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain. Later he worked extensively at IRCAM in Paris where he was instrumental in realizing the electronic part of Harrison Birtwistle's opera "The Mask of Orpheus".
Barry Anderson died in Paris on 27 May 1987, a few hours after the first performance of his new chamber work, ARC. His hectic life-style with its incessant demands had burned him out. The immediate cause of death was heart failure, but the real cause was exhaustion from years of overwork as a composer, teacher, concert organizer, 'ghost' writer, and pioneer in the dissemination of electro-acoustic music in this country. He was 52 years old and, sadly, just beginning to be recognized as a composer of international stature.
Biography-Sources:
(1) sounz.org.nz/contributor/compo...
(2) www.jstor.org/pss/945905