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Artist
Phil Kline
12+ albums
under 2000 listenersambientcontemporary classicalClassicalchoral
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Called "brilliant" and "a real original" by The New York Times, Phil Kline has freely crossed the boundaries between contemporary classical, rock, and ambient electronic music. Some of his more spectacular works have employed hundreds of boom box tape players, often mixed with acoustic and electronic instruments, to create multi-dimensional sound environments in non-traditional venues ranging from the Brooklyn Anchorage, Washington Square, and Central Park, the streets of Berlin and the shores of the Pacific in Vancouver, B.C., to the Whitney Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kitchen, Alice Tully Hall, and London's Barbican Centre. His compositions include Unsilent Night, an outdoor event for massed boomboxes which debuted in the streets of Greenwich Village in December 1992 and has since been presented annually in cities around the world; Bachman's Warbler for 12 tape loops and harmonicas, premiered at the Bang on a Can Marathon in 1992; Singing on the Water, presented throughout the Whitney Museum during the 1995 Biennial; The Holy City of Ashtabula, premiered at the Brooklyn Anchorage in July 1996; and the outdoor tableau Winter Music, which was performed with Ice Theater of New York in Central Park in December 1996. In 1997, Exquisite Corpses for sextet and tapes, commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, was premiered at Lincoln Center, and Kline's electric guitar concerto The Garden of Divorce was performed by Mark Stewart and the Glenn Branca ensemble at the Ba
