Gordon Monahan - Composer

Gordon Monahan is an internationally recognized sound artist who is equally at home creating pieces for the piano or loud speakers, as he is making videos, kinetic sculpture or even computer controlled sound environments. His work encompasses many forms from concert music to the avant-garde, including multimedia installations and sound art. As both a composer and a sound artist, he juxtaposes quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustic phenomena with elements from media technology, the environment, architecture, popular culture and live performance. Since the beginning of the 1970s, Gordon Monahan has presented the numerous facets of his work around the world in solo or in collaboration.