| CHARLES WOOD
Charles Wood is a composer, and designer and builder of new instruments and sound installations. In his work the process of musical composition is closely integrated with the implementation of new 'musical instruments' specific to the work. His work has been performed at the Spoleto USA Festivals of 1988 & 1990, the Zurich Junifestwochen, the Aspekte Salzburg Festival, Minneapolis' Southern Theatre, by The California Ear Unit, the Antenna Repairmen, the Downtown Ensemble, and at New York City's Roulette and The Performing Garage. His instruments have been exhibited at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors and at Seattle's Warwick Gallery.
He was born in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Oberlin College where he studied percussion with Michael Rosen, and composition with Dary John Mizelle and Randolph Coleman. He graduated in 1982 with a B.M. in Performance and a B.A. in Mathematics. While at Oberlin, in addition to his own creative work, he focused on the performance of new solo works for percussion by Xenakis, Stockhausen, Cage, Feldman, Mizelle, Herbert Brun, and many others. In 1981 he recorded Dary John Mizelle's Polytempus for solo marimba and computer generated tape for Lumina Records and was a guest soloist at the 1981 International Computer Music Conference in Denton, Texas, and with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra.
In 1982 he moved to New York City and spent the next several years touring and recording with Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Ned Sublette Band, and The Big Apple Circus.
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