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Tag Archives: E X Rator
Liquid Frequency
[Posting for a friend…] 1978 One afternoon following orchestra rehearsal, I was standing near the stage door and I noticed a tall, thin man with very long, dark hair. He had soft, brown eyes and chiseled features. I’d never seen … Continue reading
Posted in Bands, In memoriam, Liquid Frequency, Media, Northern Illinois University
Tagged Augie Ballou, bands, Chinary Ung, Chris Hyatt, DeKalb, Dennis Maxwell, E X Rator, ElectroComp, EML 200, Go Man, Liquid Frequency, NIU, Phil Pilcher, Rator, synth, synthesizers, The Pinz
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China Calling
We can all thank Chris Hyatt for his efforts to transcribe and preserve major portions of Eugene X. Rator’s oeuvre. The mountain of converted, digitized media is growing and some of us are following up now, editing and annotating, commenting … Continue reading
Posted in In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Performances, Politics
Tagged 1987, Beta, China, Concert Hall, E X Rator, Escher waves, Hagler vs. Leonard, Joseph Pinzarrone, NIU, sabbatical, satellite, tape, Xi'an
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Word from the grave 13 May 13
In 1978, I accepted an offered teaching post at Northern Illinois University. My primary duty was to build a program in electronic and computer music to support the music composition department at both undergraduate and graduate levels. As a seminal … Continue reading
Posted in In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Performances
Tagged China, DeKalb, E X Rator, Northern Illinois University, Pinzarrone, Rator, sabbatical, Shanghai
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A passing
Eugene X Rator at New Music America, 1982 Whether you know him as Rick Calderon, Eugene, Rator, or someone else, he left the building for good on May 1, 2013. It will take some doing to craft a fitting memorial, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinco Labs, CoNoHuRaSo, Diaspora, In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Potato Engineers, Punto Cinco
Tagged Calderon, diaspora, E X Rator, Eugene, in memoriam, neoteric, Rator, Rick
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