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Re: Dr. Richard Zvonar, RIP



I remember him from Mills in 83. Very talented, erudite and a nice
guy. Godspeed!

On 8/4/05, loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> My brother just brought me the very sad news that one of our best and
> brightest,
> Richard Zvonar, Phd.  just passed on.
> 
> For years,  and amongst many, many other things too numerous to mention,
> Richard has held up the standards of researching at this website.   He
> performed at looping festivals; gave detailed lectures on the history of
> looping
> and I always looked forward to his stimulating and always incredibly well
> informed and intelligent analysis
> at ever loopers luncheon or breakfast from NAMM to the live loop 
>festivals.
> He has always been someone that I could run a probem 
>by...........someone to
> double check my facts against.
> If anyone had a problem on the list, more likely than not,  Richard would
> quickly write in with several URLS that
> he had generously researched.     If there has ever been and authority 
>about
> anything in this community, he was one.
> 
> I did my first gig with Dr. Zvonar with my then electronic music teacher,
> Bob Beede (one of Richard's lifetime friends)
> in 1982.   It was my very first exposure to the world of academic avante
> garde electronics and Richard and Bob were
> my mentors.  It was a very heady and exciting time. I remember being
> initially really intimidated by his formidable intelligence and dry
> countenance but came to realize that he possessed a wonderful humanity 
>and a
> gentle spirit.
> 
> Over the years, I have really been blown away by Richard's generosity of
> spirit and have considered him one of my good
> friends.     We talked recently of the Y2K5 Festival,   and he told me 
>he'd
> play if he felt well enough to do so.
> 
> I hope someday to hear him do the solo guitar performance that I know he
> always wanted to play.
> I know it will be brilliant.
> 
> I'm so infinitely sad tonight that he has passed on.    We will all miss 
>him
> greatly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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