Special Guest John Wiese in Composition Workshop, Open to the Public

Please join Professor LJ White as he hosts special guest composer John Weise in his Composition Workshop (Music 129/329). The workshop hosting John Weise is open to the public.

John Wiese is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. He is a native of St. Louis, where as a young teenager he began experiments with home-recording on a cassette 4-track. He has since solidified his name as a tremendously prolific performer and recording artist, with expertise in composition, texture, and sonic experimentation. Wiese says he doesn’t really think of himself as a musician in the traditional sense, and instead of writing purely notated music he works with manipulating, cutting and arranging sounds electronically. The end product is more like a meticulous collage, built upon dense, nuanced sounds ranging from the minimal to the frenetic.

With a lengthy résumé of solo releases, Wiese’s projects as a collaborator have increased over the last decade to produce works with the likes of veteran jazz-improviser, Evan Parker, rock bands like No Age and Wolf Eyes, and metal groups such as Sunn O))). Recently, he has lead collaborative projects for large groups, developing a method of “text-based scores”.

For his St. Louis performance with New Music Circle in November 2017, he will debut a site-specific composition that includes over 20 local musicians, utilizing both traditional and non-traditional instrumentation. http://www.john-wiese.com/