Lawrence W. [Larry] Kucharz (09/1946), an American composer, from Chicago. He is an electronic musician at the border between space and ambient music. He has been around the New York music scene for more than thirty years as a “contemporary classical” composer in the experimental and minimalist genre. In the last decade he saw the music writing on the wall: classical music is just about dead except as an unprofitable museum. So he decided to market his music not as traditional concert performance but as electronic music on CD’s, published on his own private label, “International Audiochrome.” He has done not only “modern classical” but also techno, dance, and popular music releases.
Lawrence Kucharz, who opened a weeklong series of performances by various artists at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation on Wednesday, is a formalist. What that means, in the context of the SoHo experimental music milieu, is that Mr. Kucharz evidences an apparent distrust of exoticism, repetition for hypnotic purposes and the last gasps of post‐Serialism. His music is so minimal there is no place in it for melody, nor does harmonic resonance play a very important part.