Robert McClure

About Robert

Robert McClure’s music attempts to discover beauty in unconventional places using non-traditional means. Visual art, poetry, the natural world, neurological and mathematical concepts are all elements that influence McClure’s works. His work has been featured at festivals including the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, The International Double Reed Society, the International Society for Contemporary Music, and the International Computer Music Conference.

His works may be found through ADJ·ective New Music LLC, Bachovich Music Publications, Imagine Music Publications, Innovative Percussion, Media Press, Inc., Resolute Music Publications, and Tapspace Publications as well as on the ABLAZE, Albany, and New Focus Record labels.

In addition to his composition activities, McClure is the host/producer of the ADJ·ective New Music podcast, Lexical Tones—a weekly conversation with a guest composer, performer, and/or artist creating new works of contemporary art or music that focuses on aesthetics, technique, process, meaning, perception, and the musical origins of the featured guest. The podcast can be found on iTunes and Soundcloud.

McClure received his doctorate from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where his primary mentors were Shih-Hui Chen, Arthur Gottschalk, and Kurt Stallmann.

McClure has previously held positions at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Soochow University in Suzhou, China. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Ohio University. www.robertwmcclure.com

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