{{short description|American classical composer}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=February 2010}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2010}} }}
'''Henry Gwiazda''' (born 1952, silent ''i'', Polish for ''star'') is a composer who specializes in virtual audio, the simulation of a three-dimensional sound space in either headphones or precisely positioned speakers. He composes what may be called musique concrète, using samples usually without “tinker[ing]” with them.
Gwiazda is credited with sound effects, sampler, electric guitar and voice. He also composed, published, produced and engineered. Focal Point 3D Audio by Bo Gehring.
*"Gwiazda produces 'animated' audioscapes, oddly situating twisted and chopped real-sound samples . . . combining elements that don't have any clear relationship into compositions of surprising unity." - reviewed in CMJ by Robin Edgerton Douglas Wolk.
Gwiazda studied at the Eastman School of Music, and at the Hartt School (University of Hartford), where he was a student of Arnold Franchetti.
==Recordings== The CD {{proper name|''noTnoTesnoTrhyThms''}}, contains the following compositions: # {{proper name|MANEATINGCHIPSLISTENINGTOAVIOLIN}} (1990) # {{proper name|whErEyoulivE}} (1989) # {{proper name|wM}} (1992) # {{proper name|aftergloW}} (1990) # {{proper name|themythofAcceptAnce}} (1991), Jeffrey Krieger, electronic cello # {{proper name|thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd}} (1995), virtual audio-for headphones only, Ann LaBerge, electronic flute # Speaker Placement Instructions # {{proper name|buzzingreynold'sdreamland}} (1994), virtual audio-for speakers only # Un Nuit Dystopia/Hommage Michel Foucault (2007)
==Further reading== *Zelli, Bijan. “[http://www.bijanzelli.com/Dissertation.pdf Reale und virtuelle Räume in der Computermusik: Theorien, Systeme, Analysen].” Unpublished Doctoral dissertation. Kommunikations- und Geschichtswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2001. — Includes an analysis of Henry Gwiazda’s ''buzzingreynold’sdreamland'' (in German) *Zelli, Bijan. “[http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/14_4/zelli_gwiazda.html The Choreography of Noise: Analysis of Henry Gwiazda’s “buzzingreynold’sdreamland”].” ''eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto'' (March 2013). Montréal: CEC.
==External links== *[http://henrygwiazda.com Official website] *[http://www.innovarecordings.com/composers/henry-gwiazda Henry Gwiazda page]{{Dead link|date=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} on Innova Recordings website {{authority control}}
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