Malcolm Goldstein
"Improvisation is a process of discovery, overflowing in sound. The musician is one centered in the moment to moment unfolding that is realized in the gesture of enactment / sounding. "
Malcolm Goldstein is a composer, improviser, and violinist. His work combines environmental and instrumental sounds using largely improvisational techniques.
Goldstein has performed at New Music America (New York, Hartford, Minneapolis, Houston), Next Wave, The Whitney Museum's Sound Art Festival, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Real Art Ways, Fylkingen (Stockholm), Pro Musica Nova (Bremen), De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam), Weiner Festwochen, Time of Music (Finland), Inventionen (Berlin), Musik der Zeit (Cologne), International Festival of Improvised Music, Neue Horizonte (Bern) ... He has received commissions from Westdeustcher Rundfunk, Canada Council on the Arts ... He is author of Sounding the Full Circle.
Sounding the Full Circle: Concerning Music Improvisation and Other Related Matters, first printed in 1988, now long out-of-print, is currently available for downloading at no charge at the McGill University Improvisation Project Site. The book includes various articles, among them "The Politics of Improvisation" and "Towards a Whole Musician in a Fragmented Society", and the website also contains more recent articles.
Goldstein lives in Montreal and Vermont and travels widely.
Available CDs
Photo by Joel Chadabe
