Phil Edelstein is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics
(CIE). CIE projects include Rainforest IV as conceived by David Tudor from 1973, &
with John Driscoll realizations of Rainforest V beginning in Mexico City in 2009.
Works with technology include Impulsions, Shrieks & Nuptials (The Kitchen 2018),
Pepsi Modulator Revisited (Teasing Chaos); Episodes (Arnot), Subject to Change Pepsi
Modulator for 8 Thumbs (Unexpected Territories Berlin); with Tom DeWitt
Philharmonia, the development of Pantomation motion tracking system & with EBA
Called Off, At Once. Tudor/CIE’s Rainforest V is in the collections of MoMA, Museum
der Moderne, Salzburg, Arter, Istanbul, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyons, France.
Some projects have included CIE works with Stephen Petronio Dance Company
Bloodlines; sound design for Lyon Opera Ballet realization of Merce Cunningham’s
Exchange with Tudor’s Weatherings. Residencies: Experimental Television Center,
WNET-TV LAB, Center for Music Experiment (with CIE) at UCSD. Other collaborations
include Paper Music (Koprod Zurich) conceived with Cynthia Black. Other experience:
SUNYA, Wesleyan & large-scale commercial systems software architecture &
development.
