Synthesis

You are as likely to hear electroacoustic composer Carl Stone’s works performed through an octophonic diffusion system in a fancy academic hall as you are to find him performing in a small club, set up on the requisite rickety noise table. A new three-LP set on the Unseen Worlds label, “Electronic Music of the Seventies and Eighties,” releases a series of previously unheard works into the wild. Recently I had the opportunity to ask Stone a few questions.