Other Minds Festivals ➔ Stephan Micus & Daniel Lentz, head and shoulders portrait, seated, backs to camera, facing each other, Woodside CA, (2003)
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IM.OM.FP.0009.011Dates
2003-03-01/2003-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Group PhotographsImage Series
OM09: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Stephan Micus & Daniel Lentz (l to r) seated at a conference room table, during their at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to the 9th Other Minds Music Festival in March of 2003. The two are looking at each other while pointing something out on a map of San Francisco.Born in 1953 in Germany, Stephan Micus made his first journey to the Orient at the age of sixteen. Fascinated by the variety of musical cultures around the world, Micus has traveled in virtually every Asian and European country as well as in Africa and the Americas. Studying with local master musicians, he learned to play numerous traditional instruments, many of them unknown in the Western world. However, Micus's intention is not to play these instruments in a traditional manner, but rather to develop the fresh musical possibilities, which he feels are inherent in them. In many of his compositions, which he performs himself, he combines instruments that have never before been played together. The resulting dialogues further reflect his vision of a trans-cultural music. In addition to his exclusively acoustic instruments Micus also uses his voice, at times—with multitrack recording techniques—creating whole choral pieces by himself.
In his student years at Brandeis University, Lentz was awarded a composition fellowship to work at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966. He spent 1967-68 abroad as a Fulbright Fellow in Electronic Music in Stockholm, Sweden. The following year Lentz accepted a visiting lectureship at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1970 he began devoting more of his time to composition and performance, founding and directing the California Time Machine, a conceptual music ensemble based in Santa Barbara. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Lentz founded and directed the Daniel Lentz Group. The DLG was especially prominent in its revolutionary use of "live multi-track recording" in its performances in the 1980s and early 1990s. Lentz's music from his years in Los Angeles is generally fast-paced and upbeat (like L.A. itself), as heard in pieces such as Talk Radio, Wild Turkeys and The Crack in the Bell. Since moving from Los Angeles to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona his music has undergone a major metamorphosis. Recent works, such as the Temple of Lament, Apologetica, A Tiger In The Garden, and The Insect reflect these changes, evoking the desert and involving the listener in their dark intensity.
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Group portraits--2000-2010Men
Composers
Musicians
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John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 9Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnMicus, Stephan
Lentz, Daniel, 1942-
Other Minds Festival
Djerassi Resident Artists Program