Visiting Lecture : Derek Baron 13/04/2023
Channel: LCC B.A. Sound Arts
Date: 2023-05-03

Derek Baron is a composer, musician, and writer living in New York City. They have released a number of solo recordings of chamber, computer, and concrete music on record labels such as Recital, Pentiments, Penultimate Press, and Regional Bears. Their amateur chamber ensemble, Cop Tears, has recorded the music of John Cage, Theodor Adorno, Peggy Seeger, Alma Mahler, and others. They also collaborate as Permanent Six Flags with writer Emily Martin. Derek runs the record label Reading Group, which since 2016 has released experimental music and archival audio documents from artists like Anne-F Jacques, David Wojnarowicz, Marcin Barski, Ishmael Reed, Fred Moten, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Carman Moore, and others. Derek is currently at work on a larger-scale work of chamber/audio music entitled The Holy Restaurant.