Richard Lerman
Richard Lerman (born Dec 5 1944 in San Francisco, CA; died June 20 2025) was a composer and sound artist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made contact microphones of unusually small size,"[1] including, "piezo disks and other transducers".[2] Sound Generantion named him "the internet father of the piezo disk" in 2013. He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.[1]
Lerman received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music, 1966) and Master of Fine Arts (Film and Theatre Arts, 1970) at Brandeis University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sound Art (Video & Audio) for 1987-88.[3] He also worked in film, having had a show at MOMA,[1] and worked with advanced programming in DVD creation.[2]
Lerman's work was often site-specific. Pieces include Travelon Gamelon, for amplified bicycles (1978), performed worldwide many times, most recently at the FKL Symposium in Cagliari, Sardiniam in Sept 2017 and for a retrospective of his work at Arizona State University; A Seasonal Mapping of the Sonoran Desert, which includes cactus needles plucked by rainfall; and Threading History, the collaboration with Mona Higuchi, for which he recorded prison camp barbed wire.[1] In the 1980s he lived in Boston and taught at the Museum of Fine Arts School and at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.[4] He then taught sound and interdisciplinary arts at Arizona State University's West Campus Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance beginning in 1994, becoming a Full Professor in 2001, and continued teaching there until his retirement.
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- ^ a b c d Layne, Joslyn (2011). "Richard Lerman", AllMusic.com; and Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, eds. (2001). All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music, p.1103. Template:ISBN.
- ^ a b "Richard Lerman"
- ^ "Richard Lerman", Artifact.com.
- ^ Hugh Marlais Davies and Apollohuis (1986). Echo: The Images of Sound, p.92.
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