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Graduate Lecture Series: George E. Lewis - Mobilitas Animi: Improvising with Creative MachinesPost an Event »

San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

April 2 - April 2, 2010

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and the Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is a composer and improviser whose electronic and computer music, computer-based installations, and notated and improvisatory forms have been documented on more than 120 recordings. Lewis’s widely acclaimed book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008) was a 2009 recipient of the American Book Award. Lecture is held at the San Francisco Art Institute's lecture hall at the 800 Chestnut Street campus.