Goode, Daniel (Seinfel)

Goode, Daniel (Seinfel), American clarinetist, composer, teacher, and writer on music; b. N.Y, Jan. 24, 1936. After studies in philosophy at Oberlin Coll. in Ohio (B.A., 1957), he studied with Cowell and Luening at Columbia Univ. in N.Y. (M.A., 1962) and with Gaburo and Oliveros at the Univ. of Calif, at San Diego (1968-70). In 1983 he co-founded the DownTown Ensemble in N.Y; also was a founding member of Gamelan Son of Lion. In 1971 he became an asst. prof, at Livingston Coll., Rutgers Univ.; in 1981, became a prof at its Mason Gross School of the Arts. As a composer, Goode combines the techniques of process music with improvisation. His Clarinet Songs (1979-91), an evening-length suite comprised of 16 independent settings, explores non-traditional notations, circular breathing, and alternate, microtonal fingerings, all of which con-spire to produce unusual, often striking timbres. A collection of his writings was publ. as From Notebooks 1968- (Lebanon, N.H., 1984).

Works

Orbits for 6 Moving Bodies and 2 Instrumentalists (1970); Circular Thoughts for Clarinet (1974); Phrases of the Hermit Thrush for Clarinet (1974; also for Clarinet and Orch., 1979); The Thrush from Upper Dunakyn for Bass Recorder (1974); Cage’s DREAM dreamed for Piano (1977); Stamping in the Dark for an unspecified number of stamping individuals (1977); Circular Thoughts for Gamelan Ensemble (1978); Clarinet Songs for Clarinet (1979-91); Eine Kleine Gamelan Music for Gamelan Ensemble (1980); 40 Random Numbered Clangs for Gamelan Ensemble (1980); Wind Symphony for Wind Band (1980); Fiddle Studies for Woodwind Quartet (1981); Semaphores for Gamelan Ensemble (1981); Cape Breton Concerto for 6 Traditional Fiddlers, Traditional (Cape Breton style) Piano, and Symphonic Band (1982); The Red and White Cows for unspecified instrumentation (1985; also for Violin, Viola, and Piano); Shaking Music for an unspecified number of moving instrumentalists (1986); The Shouting Opera, intermedia piece with slides, video, dance, music, computer speech, and audience participation (1986); Diet Polka for Accordion and Instruments obbligato (1987); Tunnel- Funnel for 15 Instruments (1988); Flower Forms I, II, III for Wind Ensemble (1988-90); Clothesline for Soprano and 8 Instruments (1992); UFOs Made Me Do It for Computer Voice (1992); Nod Drama for (unspecified) Mixed Ensemble (1993); Pornography Made Me Do It again for Computer Voices (1993); Eight Thrushes, Accordion, and Bagpipe for 10 Mixed Winds and Strings (1994).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire