CARL STONE was hailed by the Village Voice as "one of the best composers working in the country today." He was born in Los Angeles and now lives in San Francisco. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney. He has composed electro-acoustic and computer music exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. His most recent concert tour in Japan included concert, radio and television appearances.

A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken, Carl Stone is also the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his radiophonic composition Se Jong (Bells). In 1984 he was commissioned to compose a new work premiered as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. In 1989 he resided for 6 months in Japan under a grant from the Asian Cultural Council and in that same year, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles commissioned a new work, "Thonburi" as part of the radio series "Territory of Art". In 1990 he was commissioned to create music for a 60-minute program for ZDF Television in West Germany entitled "Made in Hollywood". In 1991 he received separate commissions from Michiko Akao ( She Gol Jib, for traditional Japanese flute and electronics), Sumire Yoshihara (Rezukuja, for percussionist and electronics) and Sony PCL (Recurring Cosmos for High Definition video and electronics), which was awarded special honors at the International Electric Cinema Festival in Switzerland in 1991. In 1992 he was commissioned by Tokyo-FM to create an evening-length composition, Kamiya Bar, based on the urban soundscape of Tokyo. In 1993, he was commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, with funds from the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, to create the new work Ruen Pair

Recordings of his music can be found on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Trigram, New Tone, World Windows and other labels. His music has been used by numerous choreographers including Bill T. Jones, Ping Chong, Blondell Cummings, Hae Kyung Lee, Kuniko Kisanuki and Katsuko Orita. Musical collaborations include those with Yuji Takahashi, Setsuko Yamada, Kazue Sawai, Aki Takahashi, Michiko Akao, Yoshihide Otomo, Rudy Perez, Stelarc, Z'ev, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Tosha Meisho, Ned Rothenberg, Yumiko Tanaka and Mineko Grimmer.

He can be reached via email as <cstone@sukothai.com> .