Cummings, Conrad (1948- )

US composer. He studied at Yale, Stanford, and Tanglewood, and has worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and at the Institut de Recherche et de Co-ordination Acoustique-Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France. He has been a teacher at the Oberlin Conservatory from 1980. His music draws on baroque models as well as electronic resources.

Works Opera Eros and Psyche (1983), Cassandra (1985, revised as a dramatic scene), Positions (1956) (1988, after 1950s sex manuals), Insertions (1988), Photo-Op (1989), and Tonkin (after an incident in the Vietnam War, 1993).

Other Subway Songs for four-track tape (1974), Movement for orchestra (1975), Skin Songs for soprano and ensemble (1978), Dinosaur Music for ten-track tape and 14 loudspeakers (1981), Music for Starlore for stereo tape (1982).