Peter Brody Plonsky

Avant-garde composer born in 1943 in Brooklyn, and living in San Francisco since 1974. Self proclaimed hippy from 1967-71, and studied at Rutgers University in the 1960s and the Center for World Music 1974-78. Plonsky passed away in Oakland, California on July 5, 2020 at the age of 77. "Peter Plonsky, composer, studied composition with Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, graduated from Rutgers University in 1965 and has also studied guitar, sarangi, oud, Carnatic flute, Javanese gamelan, and shakuhachi at the University of Hawaii, Wesleyan University and the Center for World Music. A member of new York Fluxus and the West Coast text-sound movement, he has also been associated with the Pakistani vocalist Syed Mukhtar and the American composer Ingram Marshall. "Peter was involved in the NEXUS residency at Wesleyan University in 1973.[He] had a unique vocal concept based on hand manipulation of LP records. He would move the discs slowly forward and backward while imitating the low frequency glissando effects with his voice. He called his technique “mind emission." "Traditional earth music cultures differ as to external realization of circulatory system translated as rhythm, nervous system as melody, and timbre as etheric awareness. This internal physical establishment can be unified by the linear glissando which runs continuously through all parameters; and be transcended by the Mind Emission Vocal Trance which operates within the astral causality of a single elemental substance capable of infinite transformation. Numerous occult contracts bear witness to this."