Maggi Payne

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Maggi Payne (b. 1945) is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals (video, dance, film, slides). Born in Temple, Texas and raised in Amarillo, Texas, she attended Interlochen Music Camp and Aspen Music School. She received her B. Mus. in applied flute at Northwestern University, studying with Walfrid Kujala, flute, and Alan Stout and William Karlins, composers.^[1] She received her M. Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying with composers Gordon Mumma, Ben Johnston, and Sal Martirano.^[2] She studied with Robert Ashley at Mills College, where she received her MFA in electronic music and recording media.

She has collaborated since the 1980s with video artist Ed Tannenbaum, composing several works for his Technological Feets live dance/video-processing performances and built a flame speaker at the Exploratorium in collaboration with Nick Bertoni (1983-1985). Her video works include Crystal, Io, Circular Motion, Solar Wind, Airwaves (realities), Liquid Metal, and Apparent Horizon. Her films include Orion and Allusions. Her works involving dance include System Test (fire and ice) and Allusions. Her works have been choreographed by Molissa Fenley, Wendy Rodgers, Gina Gibney, Gail Chodera, Deoborah Hay, Carla Blank Reed, and Carolyn Brown.

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^[3] and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program. She has had three honorary mentions from Bourges, one from Prix Ars Electronica, and placed in the Barlow and "Luigi Russolo" per giovani compositor di Musica Elettroacoustica competitions.

Commissions include National Flute Association High School Soloist Competition 2005, flutist Nina Assimakopoulos, pianist Sarah Cahill, trombonist Abbie Conant, Starkland, composer Annea Lockwood, composer/pianist David Mahler, and the Hartt School of Music at Hartford.

She is currently Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music.

1 Discography
2 Print publications
3 References
- 3.1 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Discography

2006 ReCycle (electroacoustic) is on the Women take back the noise CD, Ubuibi
2006 Of All, for solo flute work, Nina Assimakopoulos, flute, is on the Points of Entry CD, Laurels Project, Volume I, Capstone Records
2006 it's elemental (soundscape) is on the overheard and rendered CD, and/OAR
2003 ping and pong (soundscapes) are on the ping/pong CD, and/OAR
2001 Moiré (electroacoustic) is used for the soundtrack for Jordan Belson: Collected Films: Bardo
2000 White Turbulence 2000 (four channel electroacoustic work) is on the Immersion DVD-V/DVD-A, Starkland
2000 breaks/motors (electroacoustic) is on the Oasis: Music from Mills 2001 CD, Mills College
1999 HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Inflections and performances of works by Behrman, Brooks, Trayle, Haubenstock-Ramati, Maggi Payne—flute, are on The Extended Flute CD, CRI
1999 Raw Data (electroacoustic) is on the End ID CD, Digital Narcis Ltd.
1998 Chris Mann Piece (electroacoustic) is on The Frog Peak Collaborations Project CD, Frog Peak
1998 She Began—Melody Sumner Carnahan, writer, is on The Time is Now CD, Frog Peak
1996 Desertscapes, for 2 spatially separated choirs is on the Desertscapes CD, MMC
1996 flutist on Pauline Oliveros' Non Stop Flight CD, Music and Arts
1996 Moiré (electroacoustic) is on Storm of Drones, Asphodel
1994 Resonant Places (electroacoustic) is on the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM)—Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College CD, Centaur
1991 Ahh-Ahh (ver 2.1), Subterranean Network, Phase Transitions, White Night, Solar Wind, Scirocco, and Crystal (electroacoustic) are on the solo Crystal CD, Lovely Music
1988 Airwaves (realities) (electroacoustic) is on the Another Coast CD, Music and Arts
1986 White Night, Scirocco, Crystal, Solar Wind (electroacoustic) are on the solo Crystal LP, Lovely Music
1986 Subterranean Network is on the Mills College Centennial album, Mills College
1980 Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise (electroacoustic)are on the Lovely Little Records set, Lovely Music
1978 flutist and bowed psalter player on Jacques Bekaert's album, Summer Music, Lovely Music
1977 flutist on David Behrman's album and CD, On the Other Ocean (re-released on CD in 1996)
1977 flutist on Peter Gordon's album, Star Jaws, Lovely Music
1977 flutist on Blue Gene Tyranny's album, Out of the Blue, Lovely Music

[edit] Print publications

2000 Desertscapes, for two spatially separated choirs (1991), score published on Treble Clef Music
2002 Music with Roots in the Aether, Robert Ashley, article on Gordon Mumma, p. 109-124, written about 1976