Album DescriptionStan Link lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Melanie Lowe, their daughter, Wednesday Link, and a dog named Dingo. Stan attended the Oberlin Conservatory and studied composition with Ed Miller and Richard Hoffmann. He later became a student of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati at the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik and went on to study composition at Princeton with Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Peter Westergaard and Claudio Spies. He taught composition at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia and at the University of Illinois. He is currently teaching at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. With published essays and papers on noise, silence and film, Stan is also active as a writer about music. As a creator of a wide range of acoustic and computer music ranging from solo chamber pieces to a ballet for orchestra, electric guitar and African drums, his pieces have been heard on concerts, broadcasts, webcasts and new music festivals across the United States, in Europe, and Australia. His RH-, for violin and computer-generated accompaniment appears on Albany TROY728, Violin Visions.