Annual American Composers Update
Maggi Payne
Maggi Payne co-directs the Mills College
Center for Contemporary Music, Oakland, CA, where she
teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic
music. In addition, she free-lances as a recording engineer
and editor. She has received two Composer's Grants and
an Interdisciplinary Arts Grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and video grants from the Mellon Foundation
and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships
Program. References to her appear in The New Grove
Dictionary of Women Composers, The New Grove Dictionary
of American Music, Who's Who in American Music, International
Who's Who in Music, The International Encyclopedia of
Women Composers, The Musical Woman: An International
Perspective, by Judith Lang Zaimont, and Electric
Sound, by Joel Chadabe.
Performances
Selected for the Sonic Circuits IV Festival
of Electronic Music, Apparent Horizon has toured
14 venues in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
In 1996 the Women in View Festival included Western
Front, in Vancouver. Open Space was heard
in Victoria, Canada. Choreographer/dancer Molissa Fenley
danced to Solar Wind, Ahh-Ahh, and Resonant
Places at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project
Festival and at the New York Performing Arts Center,
both in New York, NY. SoundCulture '96 was presented
at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery and at Mills
College, 1996.
Recordings
Desertscapes;
Master
Musicians Collective Desertscapes CD.
She
Began (Melody Sumner Carnahan, writer); Frogpeak
The Time is Now CD.
Moiré; Asphodel
Storm
of Drones CD.
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