American musician Carl Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts in the late '60s and early '70s, where he counted visionary electronic artists such as Morton Subotnick and James Tenney as his classroom peers. Stone’s own ideas grew through his studies, particularly in his work at the music library at CalArts — while recording the archives to tape, he realized that he could use the vast collection of avant-garde sounds to experiment with his own musical collages, without disrupting the master copies. It was a process that has deeply informed his work, crossing US minimalism with turntablism in an almost proto-hip-hop style. He has worked with myriad genres and eras, but it is his love for Asian music, particularly Japanese, that has resonated most.
