My Wife and Sons, Nature, the Pawnee Buttes, Virginia Dale, Whitehorse, Montana de Oro, silence, birdsong, insect sounds, thunder, wind, rustling leaves and grass, fire, water, rain, small and quiet sounds, drones, sitting meditation, yoga, Ryokan, Henry David Thoreau, Santoka, Inuit poetry, Papago poetry, John Pangnark, Bada Sharen, Xugu, Huang Ting Chien, Huai Su, John Schwartz, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Leonard Kwan, Lou Harrison, Miles Davis, Chinese Qin music, Indian Raga, Balinese Gamelan, Harry Partch, Chet Baker, the Stooges, Captain Beefheart, Alvin Lucier, Brian Eno, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Hamza el Din
I am a Seattle and Colorado based composer, artist, calligrapher and poet. My music is made up of sounds that are few, simple, quiet and beautiful, repeated many times over and surrounded by one or many drones. Through repetition, the beauty of sound is thrown into stark relief; slight differences in accent, timbre and dynamics become highly accentuated. In addition, I often incorporate ‘found sounds’ and field recordings into my pieces. I almost always capture the real time ambient sounds that are occurring outside my studio as I record. This provides ‘beautiful accidents’ as automobile drones, birdcalls and snippets of conversation from neighbors interact with the sounds that I am creating in the studio. I rarely use structures or forms in my music; I approach music making as I approach hiking and sitting meditation – I set out and am open to what I will find. The spirit is one of letting go and acceptance.
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Thank you dear spirit of angels for your kind words. I cried when I saw your you tube interview with Mr Cage. I had to put it on my profile, and also the fish sounds. I loved it. It says EVERYTHING about my own work. I can never use those intellectual world of sounds that Mr Cage can, but I am his sister of art and sounds. I love the essence of his presence and I miss him. Thank you for finding me. Your work is fantastic!
