Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer.

He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.

He was a professor of music at Mills College in California until 2006 and now teaches privately in Rome and sporadically at various institutions.

Daniela Tortora has edited a book about his work, Alvin Curran Live in Roma (Die Schachtel 2010).

In 2015 he published The Alvin Curran Fakebook, an atypical autobiography that includes photos, writings, and sketches alongside more than 200 scores and fragments ranging from raw sonic materials to conceptual musics and completed compositions.