Lawrence Chandler

Lawrence Chandler is a British American composer, musician and sound artist based in London. Best known as a founding member of seminal New York duo Bowery Electric he works within ambient, contemporary classical, electronic, experimental and postminimalist styles.

Biography
Following Bowery Electric's final tour in 2000, Chandler took a hiatus during which time he studied composition privately with La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros, with Conrad Cummings at The Juilliard School, worked for Philip Glass and completed a Master of Music in Composition from Goldsmiths College.

He returned in 2009 with Everybody Here Is Fine, commissioned for Make Music New York and premiered at The Bell House, Brooklyn on 21 June 2009.

Subsequent works include Music for Rock Ensemble, commissioned for 50 Years of Minimalism, premiered by Katia and Marielle Labèque, Chandler and ensemble at Kings Place, London on 26 November 2011 and The Tuning of the World, a realisation of his evolving 24-hour, 24 part, sustained tone composition with tuned sine wave generators released by Untitled Recordings on 1 March 2012.

Compositions
Chamber
 * 2008 Duo, for two violins
 * 2008 Quartet, for string quartet
 * 2009 Everybody Here Is Fine, for string quartet and/or electronics
 * 2009 Fragment, for string quartet
 * 2012 The Tuning of the World, for various instruments and/or electronics

Dance Ensemble Film Installations Piano Solo
 * 2000 The Tea House, choreographed by Beyhan Murphy, Modern Dance Turkey, London
 * 2008 Tide, choreographed by Myra Bazell, Scrap Performance Group, Philadelphia
 * 2011 Music for Rock Ensemble, for ensemble and electronics
 * 2012 As Soft as Possible, for ensemble, commissioned for Quiet Music Ensemble, Dublin
 * 2007 Men Boxing, for violin and cello, collaboration with New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Museum of the Moving Image, New York for early film by Thomas Edison
 * 2003 Plus Time, sound environment, multimedia collaboration with Brian Alfred, Sandroni Rey Gallery, New York
 * 2006 To Be Held for a Long Time, sound environment, for SEAMUS Electro-Acoustic Music Month, New York
 * 2011 The Upper Room, site-specific sound and light environment, The Marlborough Pop-Up Gallery, London
 * 2008 Figures
 * 2008 Etude No. 5
 * 2009 Etude No. 10
 * 2002 Bleak House, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Consistent Histories, for piano, turntable, vinyl record, electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Cross Country, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Don't Leave a Light On, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Heated Driveway, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Hollow Sidewalk, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Now and Later, for electronic percussion and electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Plus Time, for turntable, vinyl record, electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Sealed Air, for turntable, vinyl record, electronically processed sounds
 * 2002 Thought for the Day, for piano, turntable, vinyl record, electronically processed sounds
 * 2011 I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning, for electronics, commissioned and released by Dreamland Recordings
 * 2012 A Minute is as Long as it Lasts, for electronics, for Minute of Listening, Sound and Music, London

Theatre
 * 2012 1’41", for string quartet and/or electronics, commissioned for 101 New Music Theatre, Birmingham

Vocal
 * 2009 China, for bass voice and piano, text by Bob Perelman

Other musical activities

 * Dream House (1994–1996, 2008), monitor, light and sound installation by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
 * Experimental Audio Research (EAR) (1996), collaboration with Pete Kember, Kevin Shields and others, live performance at Westbeth Theater Center, New York on 3 September 1996
 * Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass by Brooklyn Rider (2008), assistant engineer, The Looking Glass Studio, New York
 * Philip Glass Soundtracks by Michael Riesman (2008), assisted, The Looking Glass Studio, New York
 * Basket Rondo World Premiere by Meredith Monk (2007), live sound, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
 * Deep Listening (2009), workshop with Pauline Oliveros, Dartington International Summer School, near Totnes
 * Perfect Sound Forever (2017), guest DJ, NTS Radio, London on 18 October 2017

Discography
Solo
 * The Tuning of the World (Untitled Recordings, 2012)

Bowery Electric

Happy Families
 * 'New Forgetting' (Sonic Cathedral, 2013)