William L. Biersach
Expert on rock music of the 1960s and '70s, the decline of western civilization, modular synthesizers and the Chapman Stick
Lecturer in electro-acoustic music, synthesizer techniques and the history of rock and roll, USC Thornton School of Music
Contact at: (213) 740-7416 (office), (626) 797-3393 (home) or biersach@usc.edu
Expertise:
- the Beatles
- rock and popular music of the 1960s and '70s
- the 1960s - cultural, societal, moral and religious implications
- modern studio recording techniques
- Ultra-realism
- decline of western civilization and the triumph of vulgarity
- Composer, performer and producer of albums Filaxis: Reconsidered (2000) and The Great Apple River Down Stream Inner Tube Float (2000)
- Author (fiction) of The Search for Saint Valeria (2005), The Darkness Did Not (2004) and The Endless Knot (2001)
- Author of "Sach on the Rocks" column for The Seamus Journal (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S.); "Beatles" course featured in The New York Times, CNN and Prime Time Live; and "Classic Rock" course featured in Rolling Stone
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