Edward Stumpp is a composer / improviser of electronic and electroacoustic music. His work focuses on implementations of machine listening, guided improvisation, visualized scores, and audio-visual music.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Praised as “rich with vivid imagery” and “highly detailed and multi-layered” (New Music Box), Evan Ware’s music is one of angular, bristling energy that ranges from clamorous sublimity to reverent tenderness. Through his works, he grapples with many uncompromising challenges in 21st century life, from childhood trauma and recovery, neurodivergence, and social isolation, to our critically overburdened abilities to focus. Each piece, therefore, is an invitation for composer, performer, and audience to find each other, to make community, and—amid our struggles—to feel and think deeply together.

Evan’s music has been performed in the United States, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and in Canada, as well as on CBC Radio 2, Michigan Radio, and WCMU. He has been privileged to work with pianist Nadia Shpachenko, singer Amy Petrongelli, the ÆPEX Sinfonietta, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montéal, the Arraymusic Ensemble, the University of Michigan Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, the Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet, and the symphonic wind ensembles of Central Michigan University and Cal Poly Pomona. Evan’s music has been supported by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Ottawa, among others. Evan also maintains an active career as a scholar of popular and multimedia music. He is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Cal Poly Pomona.

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