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Paredes, Robert (b. February 10, 1948, San Diego, California – d. August 20, 2005, Coralville, Iowa). American composer of mostly electroacoustic and text works that have been performed in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and North America; he is also active as a performer and visual artist.
Mr. Paredes initially studied composition with David Ward-Steinman at San Diego State University. He later studied art and technology and recording techniques with Lowell Cross, compositional linguistics and electronic music composition with Kenneth Gaburo and intermedia with Hans Breder at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he earned his MA in 1989 and PhD in 1990.
His honors include grants from the Alabama State Council of the Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation.
As a performer, he is active as a clarinettist, flautist and saxophonist in classical, jazz and other repertoires and has appeared on numerous recordings, also including gypsy and Klezmer music as well as works by Harry Partch. He has appeared as an invited soloist at numerous festivals, including ones in Australia (1986), Illinois (1988) and Brazil (1992). As a visual artist, his Xerox artworks have been widely featured, including at exhibitions in Austin (1987) and Iowa City (1989).
Mr. Paredes is also active in other positions. As a writer, he has contributed essays, reviews and text pieces to Perspectives of New Music (1995) and Open Space Magazine (2000-01, 2003-04), among other publications. His text pieces are also included in the books Image: A Collection (1988, with Elaine Barkin, Benjamin Boretz, Jane Coppock, J.K. Randall, and Catherine Schieve; Open Space Press) and Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal (2004, edited by Hans Breder and Klaus-Peter Busse, Norderstedt/Dortmunder Schriften zur Kunst, vol. 3).
He taught composition as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1991-93, during which time he also served as director of its electronic music studio, and later taught jazz improvisation and transcription as a visiting adjunct professor there from 2000-05.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: parrw@avalon.net
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
CHAMBER MUSIC: (On)e, flute, clarinet, 1985; Small Writing, cello, 1993-94
ORGAN: Fleeting Ecologies in an Ontology of Halting, organ, tape, 1995-2005
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Forgetting and Remembering, 2-track tape, 1986; Speakers (series of 17 compositions-writings-drawings), tape, 1987-93
TEXTS: Empty, 1990-93; So What Now, 1993-95; Listening, I Hear, 1996
DISCOGRAPHY (as composer)
#16, 'Fiesta' (from Speakers). (Music and Arts: 830, 1994)
Small Writing. Craig Hultgren, cello (Innova: 502, 1996)
Forgetting and Remembering; #17, '...[in every moment of decay]' (from Speakers). (Innova: 528, 1999)
(Last updated on September 13, 2005)
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