Klarenz or Clarence Barlow was born 1945 in Calcutta. Clarence Barlow’s first compositions date from 1957. He obtained a BSc at Calcutta University in 1965 and studied the classical music of Northern India. He moved to Cologne in 1968 and studied electronic music and composition at the Music Academy with Eimert, Zimmermann and Stockhausen. In 1971 he began using computers as a compositional aid and developed an interest in tonality and metricism based on number theory. From 1973-75 he again lived in Calcutta, resumed studies of Indian music and worked with a rock group resulting in Kaleidoscope and other pieces. For the past ten years he has been active mainly as a teacher and organizer, since 1984 at Cologne Music Academy and also at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague since 1990.
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