Electronic Art Ensemble

The Electronic Art Ensemble is a quartet of musicians from New York who perform live electronic music on synthesizers and various amplified instruments. Electronic Art Ensemble was founded by Gregory Kramer and Clive Smith around 1980. The two had met at NYU where they both got their M.A. in Composition in 1978. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was performing solo behind a battery of analog synthesizers and oscillators as Electric Music Mobile. He later collaborated with Robert Moog on the development of new instruments and was a Buchla synthesizers representative (Moog contributes liner notes to this LP). In 1977, Kramer founded non-profit art organization Harvestworks, who later contributed to the birth of the Tellus audio cassette magazine. The group consists of Gregory Kramer, Stephen Horelick, Clive Smith and Russel Dorwart.