User Portlet

One of the most difficult tasks, after so many years as a composer, artist and harmonist, is writing a biography. So.. I decided just to make a short list, off the top of my head.

Drew Lesso Born in 1949 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and raised in a musical family.

Duquesne University, business management, 2 years. Point Park College, psychology, 1 year.

At the age of 21, with a letter of introduction mailed ahead by Dr. Wiggins, music department head at West Virginia State University, I traveled to Cologne, Germany where I met with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Stockhausen sent me to Munich, where after two semesters studying counterpoint with Gunther Bialas and a summer at the Goethe Institute, I was back in Cologne, where I pretty much stayed for the next 4 years, enrolled at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik as a member of the Stockhausen class. Johannes Fritch introduced me to the Harmonics work of Hans Kayser and Astrid Neuhaus, descendant of a line of piano instructors who taught Rimsky Korsakov, became my piano teacher.

University of Cologne, Fortran programming, 1 year.

1975-76 Member of the Realists de Cologne, a group of visual artists. DeDeNovum Gallery, Dusseldorf, premiered “Vincent’s 15 Bilder”. Bonn Cultural Center, preview. WDR, private showing. http://drewlesso.com/index.php/algorithmic-music/35-vincent-tillmann-s-15-bilder-abstract

Returned to the United States on July 4, 1976 flying over the Tall Ships Armada in Long Island Sound.

Los Angeles:

Otis College of Art & Design, Harmonics lecture. Visual Music Alliance, Harmonics lecture. Independent Composers Association, founding member, later served two terms as president. Los Angeles River Artist and Business Association, cofounder and president for 3 terms.

Gimmie the money: Artist Loft Conversions and Management. Zoe Fashion Design – business management. Piano technician.

Computer Music Conference 1988, two works performed at the Cologne Symphony. Other works performed at the Hartford Symphony, Hong Kong Symphony, the Bing Theater in Los Angeles and the Japan America Theater in Los Angeles.

Collaboration with musicians, poets, writers and artists. 2001 MicroTonal Conference, Harmonics lecture. 2006 assembled my web archive http://www.drewlesso.com

University of California at Santa Barbara – PowerPoint lecture, work description & Harmonics.

ArtWorks Gallery in Pine Mountain Club, California. http://www.artworks.space/jo-varney--drew-lesso.html

Currently there are four Lambdoma demonstrations at Wolfram Demonstrations: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/3DLambdoma/ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LambdomaMatrix/ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ColorLambdoma/ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LambdomaOf256Tones/

For more see: http://www.drewlesso.com/index.php/biography http://www.drewlesso.com/index.php/bibliography

Introduction to Harmonics: http://drewlesso.com/index.php/harmonics/98-introduction-to-harmonics