Abstract
Composer, professor, and multi-instrumentalist Eric Chasalow talks us through the sweep of his latest work, an electro-acoustic, folky, neo-renaissance sonic memoir with both a string quartet and rockenroll guitar solos; it's a song cycle called Ghosts of our Former Selves. Chasalow, PhD, is also the director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio at Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1990. Regarded as an “uptown” contemporary classical composer, he studied with Mario Davidovsky, has been compared to Milton Babbitt, and came out of big band jazz background, all the while absorbing popular music.