Maggi Payne
Maggi Payne (born December 23, 1945 in Temple / Texas ) is an American composer, flautist and music teacher.
Payne grew up in Amarillo and had his first flute lessons there as a child. She studied with the flautist Walfrid Kujala , the composers Alan Stout , William Karlins and Ted Ashford and the music critic Tom Willis at Northwestern University , where she founded an improvisation quartet with Elise Ross , Daniel Stepner and Peter Takacs . At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , she studied with James Beauchamp (electronic music), Gordon Mumma , Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano (composition) and the choreographer Al Huang and played in Ed London's ensemble for contemporary music. She has been teaching recording technology, electronic music and composition at Mills College since 1992 and is co-director of its Center for Contemporary Music .
Payne composed electronic and tape music, multimedia works and works for electroacoustic and classical instruments that show kinship with composers such as Ellen Fullman , Naut Humon or Fred Szymanski . She has received several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts , a video award from the Mellon Foundation , was honored with an honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in Bourges, and was a finalist in the Luigi Russolo per giovani compositor di Musica Elettroacoustica competition . In addition, she presented a large number of technical reconstructions of historical music recordings.
Works
- Quicksilver , electroacoustic music and video, 2011
- Surface Tension , electroacoustic music, 2010
- Glassy Metals , electroacoustic music, 2009
- Shh for oboe, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola and cello or flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and cello
- Cloud Fields for Multi-Channel Audio and Multi-Channel Video, 2008
- Effervescence for Multi-Channel Audio and Multi-Channel Video, 2008
- Liquid Amber for electroacoustic music and video, 2008
- Electric Ice , electroacoustic music, 2007
- Arctic Winds , electroacoustic music, 2007
- fff for solo flute, 2006
- Santa Fe , installation, 2006
- Motor Rhythms , electroacoustic music, 2005
- Molecular Nanotechnology for electroacoustic music and sound recordings, 2005
- FIZZ , electroacoustic music, 2004
- It's Elemental for electroacoustic music and sound recordings, 2004
- ReCycle , electroacoustic music, 2004
- Ringtones for glockenspiel, 2004
- 38 continuous elements (including silence) , installation, 2003
- Distant Thunder , electroacoustic music, 2003
- Reflections for flute solo, 2003
- Of All for flute solo, 2003
- Flight for soprano and eight instruments and / or electronics, 2003
- Ping and Pong , electroacoustic music, 2003
- Fluid Dynamics , electroacoustic music, 2002
- System Test (fire and ice) for electroacoustic music and optics, 2001
- breaks / motors , electroacoustic music, 2001
- Holding pattern for piano and three e-bows, 2001
- Forest Song for two groups, 2001
- Past / Presence , installation for CD and LEDs, 2001
- Suspended Time for orchestra, 2000
- White Turbulence 2000 for electroacoustic DVD and microscopic recordings, 2000
- HUM 2 for eight trombones, 2000
- Pontpoint Visuals , Video, 1999
- Sweet Dreams electroacoustic music, 1999
- Fountain , installation, 1999
- Close-ups , electro-acoustic music, 1999
- Raw Data , electroacoustic music, 1998
- Minutia 0 - 13 for one to three pianos, 1996
- Apparent Horizon for tape and video, 1996
- Moiré, remix by Naut Humon , electroacoustic music, 1996
- Liquid Metal for tape and video, 1994
- Aeolian Confluence for tape, 1993
- Resonant Places for tape, 1992
- Desertscapes for two choirs, 1991
- Heavy Water for tape, 1991
- Phase Transitions for tape, 1989
- Songs of Flight for soprano and piano, 1988
- Ahh-Ahh for tape, 1987
- Airwaves (realities) for tape and video, 1987
- Back to Forth for tape, 1986
- Shimmer for tape, 1985
- Subterranean Network for Tape and Performers, 1985
- White Night for tape, 1984
- Scirocco for flute, digital music and tape, 1983
- Solar Wind for tape and video, 1983
- Crystal for tape and microscopic video recordings, 1983
- Io for tape and microscopic video recordings, 1982
- Circular Motions for tape and video, 1981
- Ling for tape and microscopic recordings, 1981
- Blue Metallics for tapes and recordings or film, 1980
- Rising for tape, slides and / or dancers, 1980
- Lunar Dusk for tape and electronically generated images, 1979
- Lunar Earthrise for tapes and abstract pictures, 1978
- Spheres for tape and electronically generated images, 1977
- Spirals for tape and electronically generated images, 1977
- Transparencies for tape and electronically generated images, 1976
- Farewell for tapes and scenic pictures, 1975
- Allusions for tape, dancers, light and film, 1974
- HUM for tape and flutist or seven flutists, 1973
- Orion electronically produced film with electronic soundtrack, 1973
- VDO , electronically produced film with electronic soundtrack, 1973
- Inflections for flute solo, 1968
Web links
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- Vox Novus - Maggi Payne
- Tara Rodgers: Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound , Duke University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780822346739 , pp. 63-72
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Payne, Maggi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, flautist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temple , Texas |