Zvony Nagy
*13 December 1978
Works by Zvony Nagy
Biography
Zvony (Zvonimir) Nagy is a Croatian-born, American composer, performer, scholar, and educator. His creative and research work extends into interdisciplinary contexts and perspectives on music, forging connections between creativity and composition, technology and performance, psychology and philosophy. His compositions are informed by cognitive and computer sciences of music and are shaped by technology, spirituality, and social issues. As a composer-performer, he specializes in contemporary music and improvisation. He draws from experimental and historical improvisation practices, as well as interactive media technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations.
About the music
Nagy views the process of composition as an investigation into the structure of musical creativity. His composition approach is an interdisciplinary one that centers on compositional morphologies that explore the creative dialogue between cognition and perception, conceptualization and contextualization, and tradition and innovation. He is influenced by experimental, postminimalist, and sound art music, and combines computer-assisted music creation and algorithmic systems with more intuitive approaches to compositional techniques and procedures. Classical Music Review has called his music "hauntingly beautiful," and American Record Guide described his compositions as possessing "glacially slow, light ambiance to a simultaneously wild and dense eruption of sound." Recordings of his compositions are available from PARMA Recordings, Albany Records, and MSR Classics.
