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Mikel Rouse
12+ albums
totalismcontemporary classicalexperimentalguitarinstrumental
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Mikel Rouse: Career Biography Mikel Rouse was born in 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Rouse moved to New York City in 1979, where he studied African and other World Musics and began his study of the Schillinger Method of Composition. Upon moving to New York, Mr. Rouse formed his contemporary chamber ensemble, Mikel Rouse Broken Consort. With Broken Consort, Rouse produced numerous recordings including Soul Menu (1993); A Lincoln Portrait (1988); A Walk In The Woods (1985), which appeared on The New York Times list of the "Ten Best Records of 1985"; and Jade Tiger (1984). Additional recordings span a variety of genres: Etudes (1980); Set The Timer (1985); Social Responsibility (1987); Against All Flags (1988), which was The New York Times "Pop Album of the Week" upon release; Colorado Suite (1984); and Quorum (1984), the first piece of its kind for sequencer. Quorum was used for Ulysses Dove's Vespers and a film of this work, directed by David Hinton, aired on PBS's Great Performances "Dance in America" series and received two primetime Emmy Awards. In 1995, Rouse premiered and directed the first opera in a trilogy of modern operas: Failing Kansas, inspired by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. This led to an emerging art form he calls "counterpoetry," which involves the use of multiple unpitched voices in counterpoint. Other works that employ this techniq
