Maggi Payne
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Maggi Payne is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remaster
ing engineer who creates electroacoustic
, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals (video, dance, film, slides).
Payne raised in Amarillo, Texas
and 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. She received her M. Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying with composers Gordon Mumma
, Ben Johnston
, and Salvatore Martirano
. 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, Apparent Horizon, and Liquid Amber. 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 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.
Maggi Payne has also had works selected and performed on the 60x60
project for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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.
Compilations:
As Performer:
Remaster
Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...
ing engineer who creates electroacoustic
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals (video, dance, film, slides).
Payne raised in Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...
and attended Interlochen Music Camp
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen Center for the Arts is a privately owned, 1,200 acre arts education institution in Interlochen, Michigan, roughly 15 miles southwest of Traverse City...
and Aspen Music School. She received her B. Mus. in applied flute at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, studying with Walfrid Kujala, flute, and Alan Stout
Alan Stout (composer)
Alan Burrage Stout is an American composer of contemporary classical music.He studied at Johns Hopkins University and at the Peabody Conservatory. His instructors included Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, John Verrall, and Vagn Holmboe, the latter at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for...
and M. William Karlins
M. William Karlins
Martin William Karlins was an American composer of contemporary classical music....
, composers. She received her M. Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying with composers Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma is an American composer. He cofounded Ann Arbor's Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music with Robert Ashley, was a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was a member of the Sonic Arts Union with Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman...
, Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston
Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. is a composer of contemporary music in the just intonation system.-Johnston's music:...
, and Salvatore Martirano
Salvatore Martirano
Salvatore Giovanni Martirano was an American composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois...
. She studied with Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley , is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
at Mills College
Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
, where she received her MFA in electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
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, Apparent Horizon, and Liquid Amber. 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
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, and video grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program. She has had three honorary mentions from Bourges
Bourges
Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
, 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
Nina Assimakopoulos
Nina Assimakopoulos is an American flutist, recording artist, and professor. She is currently the Visiting Professor of Flute at West Virginia University.Assimakopoulos also acts as producer for The Laurels Project...
,pianist Sarah Cahill
Sarah Cahill (pianist)
Sarah Cahill , an American pianist born in Washington, D.C., is a long-time resident of Berkeley, California. She is best known for performances of new works, many of them written for her...
, trombonist Abbie Conant, Starkland, composer Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...
, composer/pianist David Mahler, and the Hartt School of Music at Hartford.
Maggi Payne has also had works selected and performed on the 60x60
60x60
60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...
project for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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.
Discography
Solos Releases:- 2003 Ping/Pong: Beyond the Pail CD, And/oarAnd/oarand/OAR is an independent record label, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded by Dale Lloyd in 2001, but officially launched in May 2002. The label focuses on raising awareness about field recordings and experimental sound art that somehow utilizes field recording as part of the...
(soundscapes) - 1991 Crystal re-released on CD, Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
(electroacoustic): includes White Night, Solar Wind, Scirocco, Crystal + additional tracks Ahh-Ahh (ver 2.1), Subterranean Network, Phase Transitions - 1986 Crystal LP, Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
(electroacoustic): includes White Night, Scirocco, Crystal, Solar Wind
Compilations:
- 2008 60X3, on the "60x60 (2006-2007)" 2-CD set, Vox Novus
- 2007 System Test (fire and Ice) on the "Far and Wide" DVD, Computer Music Journal (Winter 2007, Vol. 31/No. 4)
- 2007 :60 Fizz (electroacoustic), on the "60x60 (2004-2005)" 2-CD set, Vox Novus
- 2006 ReCycle (electroacoustic), on the "Women Take Back the Noise" CD, Ubuibi
- 2006 Of All for solo flute (Nina Assimakopoulos, flute), on the "Points of Entry: Laurels Project, Volume I" CD, Capstone Records
- 2006 it's elemental (soundscape), on the "Overheard and Rendered" CD, And/oarAnd/oarand/OAR is an independent record label, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded by Dale Lloyd in 2001, but officially launched in May 2002. The label focuses on raising awareness about field recordings and experimental sound art that somehow utilizes field recording as part of the...
- 2005 field recordings edited by Chris CutlerChris CutlerChris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
on the "Twice Around the Earth" CD, ReR Megacorp - 2004 60 Spin (electroacoustic), on the "60X60" CD, Capstone Records, CPS-8744
- 2001 Moiré (electroacoustic) on the soundtrack for Jordan Belson: Collected Films: Bardo
- 2000 White Turbulence 2000 (four channel electroacoustic work), on the "Immersion" DVD-V/DVD-A, StarklandStarklandStarkland is an independent record label based in Boulder, Colorado that specializes in alternative classical music. It was founded in 1991 by Thomas Steenland....
- 2000 breaks/motors (electroacoustic), on the "Oasis: Music from Mills 2001" CD, Mills CollegeMills CollegeMills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
- 1999 HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Inflections, on "The Extended Flute" CD, CRI
- 1999 Raw Data (electroacoustic), on the "End ID" CD, Digital Narcis Ltd.
- 1998 Chris Mann Piece (electroacoustic), on "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" CD, Frog Peak
- 1998 She Began, with text by writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, on "The Time is Now" CD, Frog Peak
- 1996 Desertscapes, for 2 spatially separated choirs, on the "Desertscapes" CD, MMC
- 1996 Moiré (electroacoustic), on the "Storm of Drones" CD, Asphodel RecordsAsphodel RecordsAsphodel Ltd was a San Francisco-based independent record label founded by musician Mitzi Johnson in 1992. The label is named after the mythological flower that grows along the banks of the River Styx in Hades....
- 1994 Resonant Places (electroacoustic), on the "Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM)—Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College" CD, Centaur
- 1988 Airwaves (realities) (electroacoustic), on the "Another Coast" CD, Music and Arts
- 1986 Subterranean Network, on the "Mills College Centennial" 3-LP album, Mills CollegeMills CollegeMills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
- 1980 Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise (electroacoustic), on the "Lovely Little Records" boxed set of six 7" records, Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
As Performer:
- 1999 flutist on "The Extended Flute" CD, CRI (performing works by Maggi Payne, David BehrmanDavid BehrmanDavid Behrman is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether...
, William Brooks, Mark TrayleMark TrayleMark Trayle is a California based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, improvisation, installations, and compositions for chamber ensembles...
, Roman Haubenstock-RamatiRoman Haubenstock-RamatiRoman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. From 1947 to 1950 he was...
) - 1996 flutist on "Non Stop Flight" by Pauline OliverosPauline OliverosPauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
, CD on Music and Arts - 1978 flutist and bowed psalter player on "Summer Music" by Jacques Bekaert, LP on Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
- 1977 flutist on "On the Other Ocean" by David BehrmanDavid BehrmanDavid Behrman is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether...
, LP on Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
(re-released on CD 1996, Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc...
) - 1977 flutist on "Star Jaws" by Peter Laurence GordonPeter Laurence GordonPeter Gordon is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music draws from influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music...
, LP on Lovely MusicLovely MusicLovely Music is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices, Inc... - 1977 flutist on "Out of the Blue" by Blue Gene Tyranny, LP on Lovely Music (re-released on CD 2007, Unseen Worlds)
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
External links
- Official website
- Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Maggi Payne.” eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
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