overview

minimalism is dead. or at least that is what they say, isn’t it?

minimalism has not, in fact, expelled its last gasp as it decayed into the history of american art, the tomb of academia, the foggy recollections of our general social consciousness. no. it’s alive and thriving, continuing to occupy one of the most compelling spaces in contemporary art-music. taking the minimalist movement as a starting point and augmenting it with a firm concern for musical deconstruction/decay, c.t. anderson seeks to continually push the movement’s characteristics further. combining variable structures of “open” formats and instrumentation with systemic improvisation, the composer creates a music that is rarely (if ever) the same from performance to performance. the overall intention, then, is to create a music that gathers itself up and, gasping with its last breath, literally dies away in an organicism frequently absent from contemporary art-music. withering, dying, literally collapsing in on itself, such a methodology adds yet another compelling characteristic to anderson’s attempt to summarize the minimalist movement as a whole, as well as extend it into the future.

current interests:

minimalism.
process music.
tapedeath.
the sound of things breaking, rupturing, flaking into nothing.
free jazz/non-idiomatic improvisation.
conduction.
electronic music.
noise, field recordings, ambient sound-work.
film scoring.

anderson is currently pursuing an mfa in composition at california institute of the arts.