Charles Ross

-charles ross- born 1965 -
-usually lives in a small red house in eiðar (east iceland)
studied B.A. (later M.phil) in dartington - learnt composition and ethnomusicology with frank denyer –  entire worldview of music changed overnight - attended two week seminar course with morton feldman-
- occasionally involved in icelandic experimental music scene: composition, improv, folk and contemporary performance - taught world music in the icelandic academy of arts – “artist-in-residence” egilsstadir 2007-2008 - hosted “eidar sonic arts project” involving international contemporary musicians in collaborative series of thematically-linked concerts - currently doing a Ph.D in composition at  university of glasgow – investigating the continual real-time dialogue between the musician and the virtual entity we call music –
- compositions tend to be a retrieval of musical atavisms played out in a post-musical context - not really musical archaeology – more like a faked séance –