{{Short description|American composer}} {{Infobox person | name = Paul DeMarinis | alt = Paul DeMarinis | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio | alma_mater = Antioch College, <br> Mills College | known_for = Sound and visual art, arts education }}
'''Paul DeMarinis''' (born 1948)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/artists/paul_demarinis|title=Paul Demarinis bio|date=2013-03-22|work=Exploratorium|access-date=2018-02-07|language=en}}</ref> is an American visual and sound artist, specializing in electronic music, sound, performance, and computer-based artist. Since the 1970s he has been active in creating digital sound sculptures, one of the early innovators of sound art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ateliernord.no/en/prosjektarkiv/paul-demarinis-weave-wave-woven/|title=Paul DeMarinis – Weave Wave Woven|website=Atelier Nord ANX|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> He is currently a professor of art at Stanford University.<ref name=":0" />
==Early life and education== Born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://neat.thecjm.org/demarinis/|title=Paul Demarinis|website=NEAT|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref>
DeMarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College in 1971.<ref name=":1" /> At Antioch College, DeMarinis studied film with Paul Sharits, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://solwayjonesgallery.com/artistArtwork.php?index=395|title=Artist bio on SolwayJones gallery website|accessdate=2010-07-25|publisher=solwayjonesgallery.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018010912/http://solwayjonesgallery.com/artistArtwork.php?index=395|archive-date=2009-10-18}}</ref> DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College in 1973.<ref name=":1" /> At Mills College, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley and Terry Riley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/paul-demarinis|title=Paul DeMarinis bio|website=Foundation for Contemporary Arts|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref>
==Career== DeMarinis' performance pieces and interactive installations have been featured in international exhibitions and festivals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.23five.org/archives/demarinis.html|title=Paul DeMarinis|work=23five.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stanford.edu/~demarini/exhibitions.htm |title=Untitled Document |accessdate=2010-07-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728223739/http://www.stanford.edu/~demarini/exhibitions.htm |archive-date=2010-07-28 }}</ref>
DeMarinis in 1996 received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. He received the 2006 Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica Festival for his installation ''The Messenger,'' which examines the myths of electricity in communication.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aec.at/prix/en/winners/2006-prix-gewinner-interactive-art/|title=2006 Prix Winners: Interactive Art|website=Prix Ars Electronica|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.agosto-foundation.org/paul-demarinis|title=Paul DeMarinis|website=Agosto Foundation|language=en|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship award in 1999 for Video & Audio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/paul-demarinis/|title=Paul DeMarinis award|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}</ref>
In the late 1970s he was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based experimental music collective The League of Automatic Music Composers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=81537/|title=The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978- 1983|publisher=newworldrecords.org| accessdate=2014-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-7tr1qL930C&q=Paul+DeMarinis&pg=PA276|title=Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music and Culture by Thom Holmes|isbn=9780415957816| accessdate=2010-07-06|last1=Holmes|first1=Thom|year=2008|publisher=Routledge }}</ref>
DeMarinis has investigated abandoned technologies and the history of electronic inventions and telecommunications.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ambidextrousmag.org/issues/05/pdf/i5p30_32.pdf|title=Talking Flames and The Boy Mechanic: A Conversation with Paul DeMarinis|accessdate=2010-07-25|publisher=ambidextrousmag.com}}</ref> Some of his installation works have used optics and computers and featured processed and synthesized speech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lovely.com/bios/demarinis.html|title=Paul DeMarinis|work=lovely.com}}</ref>
DeMarinis taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He is currently a professor of art at Stanford University in California.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://art.stanford.edu/people/paul-demarinis/|title=Paul DeMarinis| accessdate=2014-09-09|publisher=art.stanford.edu}}</ref>
==Selected artworks== *'''''Helmholtz (DUO)''''' (2015)<ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=http://ideate.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/experience-recreation-of-helmholtz-paul-demarinis |title=Experience Recreation of Helmholtz - Paul DeMarinis | Project | IDeATe |publisher=Ideate.xsead.cmu.edu |date=2015-10-04 |accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref> large glass spheres act as sound resonators for low frequency noises, and various sized flames and rotating mirrors are used to show the visualization of the vibrations. There is a relationship in this piece between the histories of acoustic psychology and the physics of sound, with influence from the manometric flame apparatus and Helmholtz resonators.<ref name=":4" /> *'''''Tympanic Alley''''' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neat.thecjm.org/demarinis/ |title=Paul Demarinis — NEAT |publisher=Neat.thecjm.org |accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref> sound installation piece involving aluminum pie plates suspended and a simple metal piece striking them to create a complex soundscape reminiscent of the sounds of rain. *'''''Jiffy POP''''' (2013) *'''''Pneuma''''' (2010) *'''''The Probable Flight Path of AF447''''' (2010) *'''''Around the World''''' (2010) *'''''Dust''''' (2009) *'''''Early Media goes to the Movies''''' (2008) *'''''Hypnica''''' (2007) *'''''Rome to Tripoli''''' (2006–2008) *'''''A Light Rain''''' (2004) in collaboration with Rebecca Cummins. *'''''Firebirds''''' (2004) uses fire and water to create the sounds of music and language.<ref name=":2" /> *'''''Tongues of Fire''''' (2004) *'''''(Tommy Franks) Dérive Quebec''''' (2003) *'''''Rebus''''' (2003) *'''''Wavescape''''' (2003) *'''''According to Scripture''''' (2002) *'''''Moondust Memories''''' (2001) *'''''Walls in the Air''''' (2001) *'''''The Products of Our Industry''''' (2000) *'''''Four Foxhole Radios''''' (2000) *'''''The Lecture of Comrade Stalin...''''' (1999–2002) *'''''RainDance / Musica Acuatica''''' (1998) *'''''The Messenger''''' (1998–2006)<ref name=":3" /> examines the myths of electricity in communication.<ref name=":2" /> Involves three telegraphic receivers and is inspired by forgotten Catalan scientist Francesc Salvà i Campillo.<ref name=":3" /> *'''''Grind Snaxe Blind Apes (A Study for Pomeroy's Tomb)''''' (1997) *'''''Living with Electricity''''' (1997) *'''''Sound Waves and Scan-O-Vision''''' (1996) *'''''Gray Matter''''' (1995) uses the interaction of flesh and electricity to make music.<ref name=":2" /> *'''''Chaotic Jumpropes''''' (1994) *'''''The Edison Effect''''' (1989–1996)<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODS4CwAAQBAJ|title=A Companion to Digital Art|last=Paul|first=Christiane|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2016|isbn=978-1118475188|pages=93}}</ref> uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers.<ref name=":2" /> *'''''An Unsettling Matter''''' (1991) *'''''Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi''''' (1989) *'''''Alien Voices''''' (1988) *'''''Voice Creatures''''' (1986) *'''''Music Room / Faultless Jamming''''' (1982) *'''''Sound Fountain''''' (1982) In collaboration with David Behrman *'''''Sounds and the Shadows of Sounds''''' (1979) *'''''A Byte at the Opera''''' (1977) a performance with Jim Pomeroy at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and at 80 Langton Street (San Francisco), involved sheetrock, dried beans, loudspeakers, colored chalk dust, silly string, power tools, Kim-1 microcomputer and digital port drivers.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lu7KPDCfcXMC&q=Paul+DeMarinis|title=Performance Anthology|isbn=9780867193664|last1=Last|first1=First|year=1989|publisher=Last Gasp }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Pritikin |first=Renny |url=http://www.artpractical.com/feature/interview_with_paul_demarinis/ |title=Interview with Paul DeMarinis |publisher=Art Practical |date=2012-04-17 |accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref> *'''''The Pygmy Gamelan''''' (1973)
==Discography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ !Year !Album title !Artist !Publisher !Notes |- |1995 |''The Edison Effect: A Listener's Companion'' |Paul DeMarinis |Apollo Records with Het Apollohuis |Compact Disc (Holland), features 22 tracks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Paul-DeMarinis-The-Edison-Effect-A-Listeners-Companion/release/420358|title=Paul DeMarinis - The Edison Effect: A Listener's Companion|website=Discogs|year=1995 |language=en|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1991 |''Music as a Second Language'' |Paul DeMarinis |Lovely Music, Ltd |CD 3011, features 8 tracks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Paul-De-Marinis-Music-As-A-Second-Language/release/416308|title=Paul De Marinis* - Music As A Second Language|website=Discogs|year=1991 |language=en|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1989 |Tellus #22, False Phonemes |Various artists |Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine with Harvetsworks Inc. |''Mind Power'' (song track 6)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvestworks.org/tellus-22-false-phonemes/|title=Tellus #22 False Phonemes – Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center|website=www.harvestworks.org|date=22 January 2000 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1988 |Another Coast (New Works from the West)" |Various artists |Music & Arts Programs of America |CD 276, ''I Want You'' (song track 4) and ''Kokole'' (song track 5)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5337795/a/another+coast+(new+works+from+the+west).htm|title=Another Coast (New Works from the West)|website=www.cduniverse.com|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1985 |Tellus #9, Music with Memory |Various artists |Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine with Harvetsworks Inc. |''Eenie Meenie Chillie Beenie'' (song track 6) ''and Yellow Yankee'' (song track 7) |- |1981 |''She's-a-Wild'' |She's-a-Wild |Record Records |RR 101, recorded at Center For Contemporary Music at Mills College. Written by, Composed by, Produced by, Performed by Paul DeMarinis with Anne Klingensmith, David Behrman, and Eva-Tone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Shes-A-Wild-Shes-A-Wild/release/1547744|title=She's-A-Wild - She's-A-Wild|website=Discogs|year=1981 |language=en|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1980 |Lovely Little Records |Various artists |Lovely Music, Ltd |LP 101-6, Paul DeMarinis on tracks ''If God Were Alive (& He Is) You Could Reach Him by Telephone'' and ''Forest Booties.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Lovely-Little-Records/release/481822|title=Various - Lovely Little Records|website=Discogs|year=1980 |language=en|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> |- |1979 |Just For The Record |"Blue" Gene Tyranny |Lovely Music, Ltd |LP 1062, Paul DeMarinis on track "Great Masters Of Melody"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lovely.com/bios/demarinis.html|title=Paul DeMarinis|publisher=lovely.com|accessdate=2010-07-06}}</ref> |}
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.stanford.edu/~demarini/ }}
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