Samuel Burt
Samuel Burt is a composer, improvisor, electronic musician, and instrument builder in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2005, he has been a curator of experimental, improvised, and composed music and other eclectic performance practices at the High Zero Festival, Red Room Series, and Worlds in Collusion.
Inspired initially by John Cage, Burt pursues experiences that are unfamiliar, even uncomfortable. He experiments with processes and concepts that might fail, allowing him to discover moments of bewilderment. He has written for chamber ensembles of all sizes, composed songs for the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, and programmed complex routines for generative music. His performance practice includes clarinets, synthesizers, and the daxophone, an instrument he builds and sells. His electronic music projects focus on performer-interactivity, stochastics, and sound design.
Burt received his M.M. degrees in composition and computer music from Peabody and his B.Mus from UGA. He studied composition with Lewis Nielson, Leonard Ball, Christopher Theofanidis, and Geoffrey Wright. He teaches music at Towson and Johns Hopkins Universities.