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Involved with music technology since the middle 1960's Allen Strange has remained active as a composer, performer, author and educator. In 1972 Allen’s text, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls appeared as the first comprehensive work on analog music synthesis. After several editions the text still remains in print as a classic reference and guide for studio synthesis. In the late 1960s Allen and his wife, Patricia, founded BIOME, a pioneering live-electronic music performance. In 1976 they co-founded the Electric Weasel Ensemble with synthesizer designer Donald Buchla. Both ensembles have toured internationally and the Stranges continue to concertize as a duo composer/performer team. Their book, The Contemporary Violin; Extended Performance Techniques, has recently been published by the Scarecrow Press. Allen Strange is Professor Emeritus from San Jose State University and is now a full-time independent composer living on Bainbridge Island in Washington.

Ghost Tracks represents a 25 year retrospective of Allen Strange's work in electronic/computer music for the recorded media - ranging from early analog synthesis to current digital audio "meat-grinding!"