Andrew Culver (composer)

Andrew Culver (born August 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American composer and software entrepreneur. Culver’s works have included chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound sculpture and music sculpture, film, lighting, text pieces, and installations. He performs concerts with sound sources of his invention based on the tensegrity structural principle as elaborated by Buckminster Fuller, a lifelong influence. Career Culver worked as John Cage’s creative assistant for 11 years and was involved in all aspects of Cage’s musical, poetic, operatic, and film work. He wrote the chance operations and compositional process software Cage used during that period and directed Cage’s operas, sound, and light installations. He continued directing Cage installations and operas after the composer’s death, including posthumous premieres. 3 Culver was the founding member of Sonde, a music design and ensemble that grew out of McGill University. Culver’s interests are varied in concept, technique, and media. He has created and directed work in various performance, theatrical, electronic, computer, audio-visual, sculptural, and installation situations. He has written on art, music, a