Author: Ginger Mayerson

Ginger Mayerson passed away in March 2021 after a battle with lung cancer. She was a prolific artist, composer, publisher, writer, and friend to the wayward and uncouth.

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How odd how strange how wonderful, yesterday while cleaning the Calhoun I was stuck with a tremendous idea. I'd write B. a not- to clean up my karma so to speak. Well I went right down to Mothers and bought a card, made a rough draft then wrote: Dear B. Lets be friends. I know [...]

Curriculum Vitae

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Email / / Webpage Publication Paths and Destinations (2000) Bayside Music Press, Gilroy, California. Representative compositions, performances and recordings The Gale (sonic collage with text) Recorded January 1997, Portland, Oregon; mixed May 2000 Emmons Studio, Los Angeles, California; remastered January 2002 at New Zone Music, Mar Vista, California. Performed as part of Literatur Schallmauer - [...]

Composition/Concerts

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My compositions are usually for small chamber groups. I work from tone rows but not rigidly. I plan my work around the contrapuntal possibilities I find in the rows or in divergence from the rows. The focus of the composition for me is the note against note possibilities, either composed or created by chance operations. [...]

Sonic Collage

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These pieces are composed of ambient and directed sound. I made tapes of the sounds I heard daily in Prague, Czech Republic and Portland, Oregon and sounds made on the strings and soundboard of a piano, and blended them with text. I began to work with layers of sound and text in 1986 when I [...]

Kirtans

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The Kirtan was developed for a grant I didn't get.  David Angel suggested I use a free jazz technique to accompany the Sanskrit chant from the Bhagavadgita I chose.  Each of the player's parts has five hexachords numbered one through five.  In the performance or session, while listening to what had been recorded before, I [...]

Ginger Mayerson

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Narrative Prior to moving to Los Angeles in 1984, I studied composition with Dr. Edith Smith and theory with Dr. Norma Butcher at Orange Coast College. I decided to move to Los Angeles to continue my music education. I completed the arranging and composition course at the Grove School in Los Angeles. I studied composition [...]

The U.S. Congress is my hero (for the moment)

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“The major stressors of the twenty-first century—a fragmented media environment, profound demographic shifts, artificial intelligence and other technological advances, economic inequality, centralized power, and climate change—require a fundamental reassessment of U.S. political institutions, civil society ecosystems, and civic norms. If this was not already clear before COVID-19 revealed the strains on the body politic, it [...]