Carl Stone is one of the original pathfinders in live computer music, and has used laptop in live performance since 1986. He has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best electronic composers living in (the USA) today.”. RELIX has written that “Stone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.” He was born in California and now divides his time between LA and Japan. He studied extensively at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed almost everywhere across most all worldwide continents and used by numerous renowned theater directors and choreographers .Additionally, he is the emeritus professor in the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan.

Carl is the recipient of prominent awards and festival commissions including the Freeman Award for the work Hop Ken and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts. His 3-LP release “Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties” on the Unseen Worlds label placed #1 in The Wire Magazine’s “Best of 100” 2016 Archival category. The follow up release the next year ranked #3.

Carl Stone served as President of the American Music Center from 1992-95. He was the Director of Meet the Composer/California from 1981-1997, and Music Director of KPFK-fm in Los Angeles from 1978-1981. In 2019, DUBLAB.com reissued a series of radio conversations Stone had on KPFK-fm with Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, Terry Riley, Harold Budd and others. Further activities have included serving as Guest Artistic Director for the Other Minds Festival, and for the official web site of the John Cage Trust.