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Composer, performer, guitarist, and educator Larry Polansky has written and arranged over 40 works for a variety of instrumentations. He is a core member of the Frog Peak Music composer's collective, and a widely published music theorist who co-wrote HSML, or Hierarchical Music Specification Language, with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom, as well as other computer software. He taught at Mills College for ten years, then went to Dartmouth, where he teaches electro-acoustic music, is department Chair, and co-director of its electronic music studio. Recordings of some of his compositions appear on the Artifact and Tellus labels; The Theory of Impossible Melody features the use of HMSL.
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Larry Polansky (born 1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. He is a founding member and co-director of Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective). He co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom.
There are several recordings of his work, including an album of mensuration canons, Four-Voice Canons. He also served as co-producer of 'Asmat Dream: New Music Indonesia, Vol. I of three with his wife, composer Jody Diamond.
He is the brother of novelist Steven Polansky. His notable students include Jin Hi Kim.
