Malcolm Goldstein

Malcolm Goldstein was born on 27 March 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, and is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser. From 1952 to 1959 he studied at Columbia University, with Otto Luening among others, and from the early 1960s was part of the New York avant-garde scene around the Judson Dance Theater, where he performed from 1962, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. In 1963 he founded the Tone Roads Ensemble with Philip Corner and James Tenney, which performed works by Cage, Varèse, Ives and Ruggles. From 1959 to 1982 he taught at the New School for Social Research, the New England Conservatory, Dickinson College, Goddard College and Bowdoin College, among others. He calls his practice of structured improvisation soundings; his graphic scores combine notation, calligraphy, written instructions and collage. He wrote the book “Sounding the Full Circle” and received the Prix Acustica International of the WDR. He is represented as a composer on the Cybele album without compression (1998).