Paul Dresher

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Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernard Rands. He also studied Ghanaian drumming with C. K. and Kobla Ladzekpo, Hindustani classical music with Nikhil Banerjee, as well as Balinese and Javanese music. Dresher's music has been variously described as minimalist and postminimalist. Dresher himself, poking fun at the latter term (which he perceives as fairly meaningless), has referred to himself as a "pre-maximalist," hence the name of his record label, MinMax. Dresher served on the Board of Directors for the American Music Center from 1994 through 2000. Recordings of Dresher's works are available on the Lovely Music, New World, CRI, Music and Arts, O.O. Discs, BMG/Catalyst, MinMax, Starkland, and New Albion labels. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Dark Blue Circumstance

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Dresher: Casa Vecchia - Mirrors - Other Fire - Underground

Dresher: Water Dreams / Other Fire / Stone, C.: Hop Ken / Wall Me Do / Demarinis: Kokole / I Want You

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Coming Home by Pantha du Prince

Cage Machine

Casa Vecchia

This Same Temple

Paul Dresher/Ned Rothenberg - Opposites Attract

Portraits

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Dresher: Casa Vecchia

Slow Fire, An Electric Opera

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Coming Home

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