# Kyle Gann

Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955 in Dallas, Texas) is an American professor of music, critic, analyst, and composer who has worked primarily in the New York City area. As a music critic for The Village Voice (from November 1986 to December 2005) and other publications, he has supported progressive music, including such "downtown" movements as postminimalism and totalism. == As composer == Gann's work as a composer can be classified generally into three categories: microtonal works in just intonation, involving electronics; rhythmically complex works for Disklavier (computer-driven acoustic piano); and piano and ensemble music whose rhythmic complexity tends to be milder and within a single tempo framework.Most of his music has expressed the concept of repeating loops, ostinati, or isorhythms of different lengths going out of phase with each other; the idea leads to simultaneous layers of different, mutually prime tempo relationships in his Disklavier and electronic works, and is used in a less obvious structural way in his live-ensemble music.