Connor Freff Cochran interviewed what American musician and composer that was born in Rode Island, and studied physics and music at Brown University?
Connor Freff Cochran Connor Freff Cochran ("Freff") is an American comic book writer and illustrator, journalist, musician and songwriter, science fiction author, actor, screenwriter producer, product interface and robotics demo designer, BBC Television technology reporter, and founder of Conlan Press, a publisher originally formed to assist creators in overcoming personal and career problems. In addition to computer industry journalism, Freff wrote "Creative Options", an award-winning 14-year series on creativity, for the musician magazine "Keyboard", and these essays have been reprinted in college English curriculum materials, the journal of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and in books. Writing for "Keyboard" and "Electronic Musician", Cochran also interviewed electronic music luminaries such as Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos. Freff appears on the commentary track of the Shout! Factory DVD and Blu-ray editions of Rankin/Bass Productions' 1982 animated adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn". In 1974, Freff graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Jan Swafford Jan Swafford (born September 10, 1946) is an American composer and author. He earned his Bachelor of Arts "magna cum laude" from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as the introductory "Vintage Guide to Classical Music".