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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 - [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s some press coverage in the Arroyo Seco Journal on the whole Tour event thingy. Includes a picture of yours truly with her work.

Links to other pages of interest The Hackenblog The Jounral of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society J LHLS Reviews and News Writing Wapshott Press   Collage Sequential Tart William Roper Sonic and Visual Artist https://home.pacbell.net/kyanite/ https://shoko.calarts.edu/~wls/roper.html   works + conversations https://www.conversations.org/    

Bayside Music Press now has an online store. In February 2000, Bayside Music Press published my tuba composition, Paths and Destinations. For more information, please see below or contact Jim O'Briant at jobraint@garlic.com. You can also contact him at: Bayside Music Press 1141 Valbusa Drive Gilroy, California 95020-7455 Telephone: 408-848-8097 Fax: 520-244-6884    

Well, I was trying to leave a comment for danah boyd on her Facebook and 'radical transparency' (a rant) post, but the comment spam catcher kept telling me I was doing it wrong. So I gave up and put it here. If danah does drop in, thanks for this post, and here's what I would [...]