BOB GLUCK

        Electric Brew
        Electric Songs
        Stories Heard and Retold

Bob Gluck is a composer, performer, and educator. His compositions, often integrating sounds and music from Jewish culture, have been performed in Europe and the United States. Gluck's live performances feature home-built interactive electronic instruments, including the sensor expanded Turkish saz and ram’s horn, the multi-sensor 'eBoard' and a variety of musical sculptures that are modeled upon traditional Jewish religious objects. Current projects include 'Layered Histories', an immersive, interactive sound and video environment with Cynthia Rubin and music for harpsichord, 'Pressure Kee-board' and electronics.

Gluck composed his first works for musique concrete and live synthesizer performance systems (Buchla Electronic Music Box, Moog, Putney, and Arp Synthesizers) in the 1970s, while studying with Donald Funes and Joel Chadabe. After an extended sabbatical to pursue studies and service as a rabbi, he returned to composing in the early 1990s. His music has been discussed and reviewed in Hadassah Magazine, Computer Music Journal, Moment, The Forward, Berkshire Eagle, Reconstructionism Today, and in music critic Seth Rogovoy's 'The Essential Klezmer'. He has won grants and awards from Meet the Composer, The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity ...

Bob Gluck is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MFA, 2001), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Rabbi, MHL, 1989), and Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work (1984). Also a pianist, Gluck has been a student of Regina Rubinoff at the Julliard and Manhattan Schools of Music. He is Assistant Professor and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University at Albany and he serves as Associate Director at the Electronic Music Foundation.