{{short description|American composer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{notability|Music|date=October 2017}} '''Alex Dea''' is an American composer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lingalayam.com/alex-dea|title = Alex Dea}}</ref>
==Life and work== Alex Dea was trained in Western classical music and received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, with a specialty in Javanese gamelan music. He was a performer in La Monte Young's experimental music group Theatre of Eternal Music.<ref>Potter, Keith (2000). ''Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass''. Music in the Twentieth Century series. Cambridge, UK; New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 76</ref> Other mentors include prominent avant-garde composers Terry Riley and Robert Ashley. He has also studied the musics of Africa and Japan – and studied raga with the Hindustani master Pandit Pran Nath. Dea recently works in the gamelan form. One of his gamelan compositions, ''In Pelog'', is the result of his collaboration with Prof. Dr. Sumarsan, an Indonesian teaching at Wesleyan University.<ref>Slamet Susanto, "[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2006/09/23/alex-dea-wholeheartedly-gamelan.html Alex Dea: Wholeheartedly into Gamelan]". {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223951/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2006/09/23/alex-dea-wholeheartedly-gamelan.html |date=2016-03-04 }} ''The Jakarta Post'' (Saturday, September 23, 2006).</ref>
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==References== *https://www.google.ru/books/edition/Dance_On/zXizEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Alex+Dea%22+and+The+Well+Tuned+Piano&pg=PA1959&printsec=frontcover
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