Carl Stone

"I'm working in the tradition of Rauschenberg and Warhol. I use appropriated materials, but I rework them. My general approach is using the technique of variation, but extending it beyond its normal life."

Carl Stone creates computer-based transformations of acoustic instruments, natural, and familiar sounds.

Collaborators have included musicians Yuji Takahashi, Aki Takahashi, Ned Rothenberg and choreographers Bill T. Jones and Ping Chong. His awards and commissions include the Freeman Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). He has been in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Center at Bellagio and Djerassi Center in California.

He lives in San Francisco, works as a freelance composer, and travels and performs worldwide.