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Ingram Marshall in his Hamden, CT studio.
Ingram Marshall (born May 10, 1942 in Mount
Vernon, New York) is an American composer and a former student of Vladimir
Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick. Though the composer
uses the term "expressivist" to describe his music, he is often
associated with post-minimalism. His music often reflects
an interest in world music, particularly Balinese gamalan
tradition, as well as influence from the American minimalism trends of the
1960s (the composer often acknowledges the work of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and John Adams). Marshall
also frequently cites Jean Sibelius as a prominent influence.
Several of his pieces include samples of Sibelius symphonies and
tone poems.
He first gained recognition for his electroacoustic pieces, often performed
by the composer himself on synthesizer, tape looping, gambuh (a
traditional Balinese flute), and voice ("Fragility Cycles" [1978]
is one of his best known works using this method of solo
performance). His acoustic music frequently incorporates tape
delay, and later, digital delay (such as "Soe Pa", for solo
classical guitar, and "Hymnodic Delays" for the Theatre of Voices).
Many of tape parts of his pieces include the composer's own keening
falsetto and gambuh playing (such as "Fog Tropes" and
"Gradual Requiem").
He has written for the Kronos Quartet: Voces Resonae
(1984) and Fog Tropes II (1982) and for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra:
Orphic Memories (2006).
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