Related Research Articles
Pauline Oliveros was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
Annie Gosfield is a New-York-based composer who works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds, refined timbres and noise. She composes for others and performs with her own group, taking her music to festivals, factories, clubs, art spaces and concert halls. Much of her work combines acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, incorporating unusual sources such as satellite sounds, machine sounds, detuned or out-of-tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments. She won a 2012 Berlin Prize.
Ruth Anderson was an American composer, orchestrator, teacher, and flutist.
Aleksandra Vrebalov is a Serbian-American composer based in New York City and Novi Sad, Serbia.
Pamela Z is an American composer, performer, and media artist best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance, she combines various vocal sounds including operatic bel canto, experimental extended techniques and spoken word, with samples and sounds generated by manipulating found objects. Z's musical aesthetic is one of sonic accretion, and she typically processes her voice in real time through the software program Max on a MacBook Pro as a means of layering, looping, and altering her live vocal sound. Her performance work often includes video projections and special controllers with sensors that allow her to use physical gestures to manipulate the sound and projected media.
Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals.
Diedre Murray is an American cellist and composer specializing in jazz and musical theater. She also works as a record producer and curator.
Margaret Brouwer is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group.
Emma Lou Diemer was an American composer.
Elizabeth Brown Larsen is a contemporary American classical composer. Along with composer Stephen Paulus, she is a co-founder of the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum.
Jean Eichelberger Ivey was an American composer who produced an extensive and diverse catalog of solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works as an innovator and "respected electronic composer."
Molissa Fenley is an American choreographer, performer and teacher of contemporary dance.
Faye-Ellen Silverman is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She is also an author and an educator.
Pril Smiley is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music.
Jeannie Gayle Pool is an American composer, musicologist, filmmaker, producer, and lecturer. An expert on and advocate for women in classical and popular music, she founded the International Congress on Women in Music, has published books and articles, and has had compositions performed internationally.
Priti Paintal is a British composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in England.
Laetitia Sonami, is a sound artist, performer, and composer of interactive electronic music who has been based in the San Francisco Bay area since 1978. She is known for her electronic compositions and performances with the ‘’Lady’s Glove’’, an instrument she developed for triggering and manipulating sound in live performance. Many of her compositions include live or sampled text. Sonami also creates sound installation work incorporating household objects embedded with mechanical and electronic components. Although some recordings of her works exist, Sonami generally eschews releasing recorded work.
Andrea Clearfield is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Regularly commissioned and performed by ensembles in the United States and abroad, her works include music for orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, opera, film, and multimedia collaborations.
Ragamala Dance Company is an independent dance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, at the Center for Performing Arts. It was founded in 1992 by Ranee Ramaswamy and David Whetstone. Ragamala collaborates with national and international artists of various disciplines. They perform locally in Minneapolis and on national tours around the United States, India, Europe, and other locations. Ragamala combines the extensive culture of India with the explorative, creative ethic of the United States.
Betty Ann Wong is an American author, composer, and multi-media musician. She received the 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work on Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions. She has also composed film scores for Academy Award-winning movie producers Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
References
- ↑ Hixon, Donald L. Women in Music: an encyclopedic bibliography. 2nd ed. 1993
- ↑ Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed. 1987
- ↑ Zaimont, Judith L Contemporary Concert Music by Women: a directory of the composers and their works. 1981
- ↑ American Composers Alliance
- ↑ "Ragamala Music and Dance Theater". Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-02-24. Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
