Brian Evans


Brian Evans is an artist/composer interested in electronic media and especially the use of computer technology as an expressive tool in music and the visual arts. His present work investigates the use of color as time-based compositional material and explores mathematics as an artistic medium.

His music/animation pieces and computer graphics images have been seen internationally in art galleries, in solo and group exhibitions, music concerts, film and music festivals, and various publications. He has published several articles discussing the aesthetics and techniques of his work, and participates in many conferences and symposia on the computational arts.

Evans received his D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Illinois (1988) with a minor in Computer Science. He received his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (1984) and his Bachelor of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts (1976). His primary teachers were Earle Brown, Mel Powell, Morton Subotnick and Paul Martin Zonn.

He works as a Research Artist at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is also on faculty at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt where he teaches courses in electro-acoustic and computer music.


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