John D. S. Adams
composer-performer


John D.S. Adams currently resides in Toronto, Canada where he is active composing, performing, producing, and recording music. Adams returned to Canada in 1996 following five years in New York City. While in New York he performed around the world with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and acted as a hands-on assistant to electronic music pioneer David Tudor. During his association with Tudor, Adams broadened his familiarity and understanding of Tudor's electronic music compositions and was requested by the composer to realize and perform his music in the US, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Taiwan. In 1998 Adams joined ranks with New York based Composers Inside Electronics to perform Tudor’s Rainforest IV at the Lincoln Center Festival 98 and for the Lincoln Center Institute’s school outreach program. Adams was invited by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles to perform Rainforest IV for the recent Symposium on David Tudor in May 2001.

Adams has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the great musical pioneers of our time, including John Cage, Walter Zimmerman, Takehisa Kosugi, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Yasunao Tone, Ron Kuivila, John Driscoll, Steve Lacy and Stuart Dempster. In 1995 Adams performed with Pauline Oliveros at the Prague Spring Festival's 50th anniversary. He has also composed and created sound design for Barishnykov's White Oak Dance Project.

Adams is a sought after recording engineer and producer, having worked on a wide variety of projects in film, music and dance. His production credits including music recording for the Cunningham Dance Foundation's award winning Beach Birds: For Camera, David Tudor's Lovely Music (Ltd.) releases, Neural Synthesis No. 6-9 and Three Works for Live Electronics. Adams has also earned engineering/production credits on Sony Classical, BMG, Universal, VOX, and the Analekta recording labels.

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