Draft:Jon Forshee

Jon Forshee is an American composer, teacher, writer, editor, curator, and performer.

Compositions
Forshee’s compositions are for acoustic instruments (solo, chamber, and orchestral), voice, computer and electronic sound, as well as audio-visual media, a chamber opera, and a semi-improvised outdoor site-specific work.

Forshee’s compositions have been performed by such musicians as Brad Lubman, the Callithumpian Consort, Colin McAllister, Tasha Smith Godinez, and Trio Kobayashi, at such venues as The Stone (NYC), Maverick Concert Hall (Woodstock, NY), and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Recordings of Forshee’s music appear on the Open Space and Centaur Records.

Writing and Editing
Forshee’s publications have focused on music, ideas, and technology of Benjamin Boretz, J.K. Randall, Robert Morris, Roger Reynolds, and Trevor Wishart, specifically Wishart’s Soundloom interface, which allows the user to run C-programs for transforming sounds from a graphic interface written in TK/Tcl, hiding the mechanics of the process.

Forshee’s writings appear in Perspectives of New Music, the Computer Music Journal, and | Open Space. He is also an editor of |Open Space and a founding editor of the online journal First: Listen (The Journal of Critical Listening through Music).

Selected works

 * Apokatastis (2021) – chamber ensemble with computer-generated sounds


 * Anti-Borderlands (2020) – Field orchestra


 * Transfigured Verse (2020) – harp and computer-generated sounds


 * Opus (2016) – contrabass solo


 * Sextet (2013) – bassoon, percussion, harp, harpsichord, ‘cello, bass


 * Desiderata (2012) – horn, trombone, tuba


 * Ascensions (2012) – Hutchins Consort


 * Gig of Gists (2008) – solo piano

Selected Publications

 * "Speaking of Listening, Speaking of Seeing: Group Variations II by Benjamin A. Boretz and Russell Craig Richardson; Or, Dialogue Between Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd on ‘Time and What We Make of It" The Open Space Magazine, Issue 19 / 20. 2016.


 * "Towards Transcribing Trevor Wishart’s Globalalia" The Open Space Magazine, Issue 12. 2011.


 * "Composers’ Desktop Project 5.0.1 review" The Computer Music Journal, 29/5, 2006


 * "Rarefactions" Perspectives of New Music, 43/2, 2006.

Listening

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