Brenda Hutchinson

Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist who has created a body of work she calls "collaborating with strangers." Hutchinson encourages her participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She often bases her electroacoustic compositions on recordings of these individual collaborative experiences, creating "sonic portraits" or "aural pictures" of people and situations...[1][2] In addition to her ethnographic pieces, Hutchinson has composed for film (Liquid Sky, 1982, co-composed with Clive Smith), invented instruments (Giant Music Box, Long Tube, and gestural interface for the Long Tube), and is active as a performer/improviser.[3] Hutchinson earned her M.A. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied with Pauline Oliveros, Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, and Robert Erickson. Performances of her work have been presented in New York City at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and The Kitchen, as well as in San Francisco at New Langton Arts, The Lab, and the Exploratorium.[4]

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  1. ↑ Jeffery Byrd, "Brenda Hutchinson," in Women and Music In America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, ed. Kristine Burns, 288-9 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses Hutchinson's work in Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology, (Ashgate Publishing, 2006).
  3. ↑ Kyle Gann includes her with performance artists in his text on American music. See Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1997).
  4. ↑ Several of her pieces have been reviewed by Kyle Gann in The Village Voice. See Gann,Music Downtown: Writings From The Village Voice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

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