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 M. William Karlins, composers.[1] She received her M. Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying with composers Gordon Mumma, Ben Johnston, and Salvatore Martirano.[2] She studied with Robert Ashley at Mills College, where she received her MFA in electronic music and recording media. [3]

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[4] 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,[5]pianist Sarah Cahill, trombonist Abbie Conant, Starkland, composer Annea Lockwood, composer/pianist David Mahler, and the Hartt School of Music at Hartford.

Maggi Payne has also had works selected and performed on the 60x60 project for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. [6] 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. [7]

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[edit] Discography

  • 2007 :60 Fizz (electroacoustic) On the Vox Novus label [8]
  • 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 [9]
  • 2006 it's elemental (soundscape) is on the overheard and rendered CD, and/OAR
  • 2004 60 Spin (electroacoustic) released on Capstone Records, CPS-8744
  • 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Borchert
  2. ^ Borchert
  3. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Maggi_Payne.htm Maggi Payne Biography on Vox Novus
  4. ^ Borchert
  5. ^ http://www.ninaassimakopoulos.com/pages/main/recordings.html Nina Assimakopoulos recordings page
  6. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Composers.htm 60x60 Composer Page
  7. ^ http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/mus/maggi/maggi.php Maggi Payne at Mills College
  8. ^ http://cdbaby.com/cd/60x60 60x60 CD (2004-2005)
  9. ^ http://www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8759.html Points of Entry Capstone CPS-8759

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