Peter Armstrong
Born 1940. Childhood performances: Town Hall NY; Worcester Festival with
Philadelphia Orchestra. Diploma, Longy School; BM, Emerson; MMA & DMA
in performance, Yale. Post-doctoral residency in composition and computer
music, UNT. Piano study with Ernst Lévy, Kyriena Siloti and John Kirkpatrick.
Composition with Nicholas Van Slyck, Alexander Goehr, Thomas Clark, Phil
Winsor and Larry Austin.
Compositions: Noitnevni Trap-2 & Cycles for Synclavier ('86);KRIKOI, Four
Pieces on the Opening of Schönberg's Opus 33a, for Csound ('92); Krikos
Epilogue, for piano solo ('93); Partita Traverse for Flute Solo, after Bach ('93);
Additudes!: Fibonacci/Lucas Mod Cycles set in the Order-21 Perfect Square,
for Csound 'pluck' ('05). Works in call-for-scores award presentations by CCI,
CMS and ARTSPACE. Represented by BMI.
Belated serialist harangues: Octave Dimensions via Prime Numbers - for a
Generalized Multiplicative Transform; Rotating, not Reflecting, the X/Y Matrix -
a Trigonometric Permutator; PC Registration via SI Octave Offsets - Timbre as
Series Cluster. 'Markov' proto-Additudes! algorithm published in Winsor, The
Computer Composer's Toolbox, Windcrest ('90). Solo Recitals: Lincoln Center,
NY; The National Gallery, DC; college/university campuses & arts associations
in twenty states (works of Busoni, Schönberg, Webern, Lévy, Finney).
Academic posts in CT at Wesleyan University, Trinity College, music/private
schools; in TX at MSU - Bolin Chair. Computer languages: Forth, C, APL, J.
Programmer: IBIDINC - games audio, intercommunications test suite for the
Talking Cabbage Patch Kids. Currently IT systems administrator with federal
judiciary. Memberships/forums past and present: AMC, AGNULA, ASUC,
CMS, CSND, EMF, ICMA, J, LAD, MDSO, SCI, SEAMUS, SIGAPL, SEMI -
The Studio of Electronic Music Inc., past president.