Franz Kamin
Composer
1941 – 2010
Who was Franz Kamin?
Franz Kamin was a prolific American author, composer, and pianist whose works were modelled on topology, general systems theory, meditational processes, and chance operations.
Born in Milwaukee, Kamin studied composition at the University of Oklahoma with Spencer Norton, and at Indiana University with Roque Cordero, where he also studied piano with Alfonso Montecino. While at IU, Kamin, together with fellow composer James Brody organized FIASCO, an experimental collective which meet weekly in Bloomington from 1966 to 1972. Among his compositions from this period was "The Concert of Doors", a synaesthetic work in which a number of doors, each of vastly differing design, some found, some constructed, ranging from comical to mysterious, were set on a path through a woods to be traversed by the audience-participants. Kamin moved to New York in the 1970s and collaborated with cellist Charlotte Moorman, a fixture in the downtown avant-garde scene at that time. He eventually settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Kamin is published in two books by Station Hill Press.
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- Born
- May 25, 1941
Milwaukee - Education
- University of Oklahoma
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Died
- Apr 11, 2010
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on July 23, 2013
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