Albert Mayr

A composer, teacher, and scholar, Albert Mayr was little known outside academic circles. His papers on the epistemology of time had a larger circulation than his musical works. He composed instrumental music, electronic music, and mixed media. His installations were presented in Italy, Germany, and Canada. His music displayed environmental concerns (acoustic ecology) and a fascination with the nature of time -- the latter culminated in Hora Harmonica (1983), a piece that proposes an alternative form of measuring time. Mayr (born 1943) studied composition in the music conserva...