Biography
Daniel Goode, born in New York, works as a modern composer and clarinetist whose output encompasses forward-looking pieces for the instrument as well as ensemble and multimedia projects. He began with studies in philosophy before pursuing music with composers Henry Cowell and Pauline Oliveros. Between 1971 and 1998 he directed the Electronic Music Studio at Rutgers University. In 1976 he joined Gamelan Son of Lion as both composer and performer; in 1983 he co-founded New York’s DownTown Ensemble and has co-directed it continuously since. Performances of his music have taken place across North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, and Australia, including appearances at the Bang on a Can Festivals of 1991, 1992, and 1996 as well as the 1994 Pfeifen im Walde festival in Berlin. During July 1996 he toured Java with Gamelan Son of Lion, presenting his Eine Kleine Gamelan Music at the Second Yogyakarta International Gamelan Festival. His gamelan works appear on the Folkways label as the recordings Gamelan in the New World, Vols. 1 & 2. In 2004 he established the Flexible Orchestra, an ensemble devised to confront limitations of musician availability, instrumentation, or budgets while preserving the full sonic breadth of an orchestra. Among his other notable scores are the solo clarinet works Circular Thoughts (1974) and Clarinet Songs (1979–1991), the latter released in 1993 on the Experimental Intermedia (XI) label; Thrush from Upper Dunakyn, written for solo bass recorder and issued on Opus One records; and Tunnel-Funnel, composed for fifteen instruments, performed at the 1989 New Music America festival, and recorded for the Tzadik label in a 1996 release. Goode has also published the writings collection From Notebooks and the music volume One Page Pieces, both issued by Frog Peak Music in New Hampshire.
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