Editing Larry Austin (section)

==Compositions==
Austin received early recognition for his instrumental and orchestral works and of those pieces, ''Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists'', was performed and recorded by the [[New York Philharmonic]] under [[Leonard Bernstein]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/14/specials/copland-philh.html Music: Copland Plays at Philharmonic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Other orchestral works of special note include Charles Ives's ''Universe'' Symphony, "as realized and completed by Larry Austin" (1974–93) for large orchestra,<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/Apr01/Ives_Universe.htm IVES ''Universe'' Symphony etc [RB&#93;: Classical CD Reviews- April 2001 MusicWeb(UK)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and ''Sinfonia Concertante: A Mozartean Episode'' {{cn|date=September 2024}} (1986) for chamber orchestra and tape. Chamber works with particularly significant computer music/electro-acoustic music aspects include ''Accidents'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubu.com/sound/source.html|title=UbuWeb Sound – Source – Music of the Avant-Garde}}</ref> for electronically prepared piano (1967), written for [[David Tudor]], ''Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band'' <ref>{{cite journal|jstor=3679852|title=Coasts: On the Creative Edge with Composer Larry Austin|first1=Thomas|last1=Clark|first2=Larry|last2=Austin|date=1 January 1989|journal=[[Computer Music Journal]]|volume=13|issue=1|pages=21–35|doi=10.2307/3679852}}</ref> for eight musicians and tape from 1981, and ''BluesAx'' for saxophonist and tape (1995), which won the Magisterium Prize, at Bourges in 1996.<ref>[http://www.imeb.net/MFLi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=492&Itemid=179 Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique – Collection "Cultures électroniques"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070916012713/http://www.imeb.net/MFLi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=492&Itemid=179 |date=2007-09-16 }}</ref> ''BluesAx'' has been recorded by [[Steve Duke]].<ref>[http://www.niu.edu/music/about/bios/sduke.shtml Steve Duke – NIU – School of Music<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032742/http://www.niu.edu/music/about/bios/sduke.shtml |date=February 16, 2008 }}</ref>
Later work included ''John Explains...'' (2007) for [[octophonic sound]],<ref>Clark, Thomas: ''Larry Austin: Life and Times of an Experimental Composer''. Raleigh: Borik Press, 2012. p. 85.</ref> based on a recording of an interview with [[John Cage]]. ''John Explains...'' was premiered at the 2008 North Carolina Computer Music Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2008/022008/Computer.html|title=Classical Voice of North Carolina}}</ref> At the CEMI Circles festival, Austin's 2013 piece, ''Suoni della Bellagio—Sounds and sights of Bellagio, July–August, 1998'' for video and two-channel tape was premiered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cemi.music.unt.edu/cemicircles/schedule|title=schedule – Center for Experimental Music & Intermedia, UNT|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025014157/http://cemi.music.unt.edu/cemicircles/schedule|archive-date=2014-10-25}}</ref>

The noted critic [[Tom Johnson (composer)|Tom Johnson]] has written of Austin's music, "His style is neither uptown nor downtown, nor is it minimal, eclectic, hypnotic, or European. But it works, it is strongly personal, and it has something to say in all these directions.... The real source of Austin's music, however, is clearly Charles Ives, who also liked musical symbols, enjoyed collaging them together as densely as he could, and never had much of a knack for prettiness."<ref>"[http://www.music.unt.edu/cemi/larry_austin/LARevs.htm Larry Austin – Performances and Activities<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122133017/http://www.music.unt.edu/cemi/larry_austin/LARevs.htm |date=2007-11-22 }}"</ref>

Austin said that "Exploring new concepts, new materials and their interaction is essential to my work as a composer."<ref name="cdemusic.org"/>{{dead link|date=August 2016}}