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Women’s Electro-acoustic Listening Room

March 2, 2005 :: No. 136

Who: Department of Music at Cal State Fullerton
What: Women’s Electro-acoustic Listening Room
a part of the “Merging Voices: Women in New Music Festival”
When: 12 – 4 p.m. March 12, 2005
Where: Recital Hall, California State University, Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. (Nutwood and State College Blvd.) Fullerton
Program: The international electro-acoustic listening room welcomes guest composer Pauline Oliveros and offers works by this year’s female composers:
Liana Alexandra
Alexis Bacon
Jennifer Bernard
Kari Beshare
Jane Ira Bloom
Stacy Borden
Madelyn Bryne
Chin-Chin Chen
Ellen Christi
Jay Clayton
Hannah Clemen
Renee Coulombe
Cindy Cox
Cuca Esteves
Suzanne Farrin
Ellen Fullman
Laruen Gerig
Katarzyn Glowicka
Emily Hay
Mara Helmuth
Dorothy Hindman
Nora Hoffman
Laurie Hollander
Brenda Hutchinson
Alison Isadora
Vera Ivanova
Aitana Kasulin
Hideko Kawamoto
Katharina Klement
Kadet Kuhne
Anne LaBerge
Georrgina Lewis
Elainie Lillios
Mei-Fang Lin
Dana McCormick
Ava Mendoza
Pauline Oliveros
Maria Panayotova-Martin
Sylvia Pengilly
Sibylle Pomorin
Jane Rigler
Anna Rubin
Judith Shatin
Karen Sunabacka
Kirsten Volness
Joyce Wai-chung Tang
Jing Wang
Lisa Whistlecroft
Caroline Wilkins
Carolyn Yarnell
Tao Yu
Alla Zagaykevych
Background:

The annual International Women in New Music festival at Cal State Fullerton, now in it’s fourth year, has grown to become a significant meeting place for the music community. The main goal of the festival is to bring an up-to-date and detailed presentation of new artistic trends and research issues encountered when composing works as a woman. This spring’s festival entitled, Merging Voices: Women in New Music, is a celebration of women within the world of new music and features a two-hour electro-acoustic listening room. Speaking during the event is legendary composer Pauline Oliveros along with works by an acclaimed group of international female composers.

The Listening Room focuses on electronic or electro-acoustic music—works that are sculptured in sound for loudspeakers, not for live performances. The electronic domain gives the composer the ability to directly communicate and share intimate worlds without having to negotiate the often difficult and political world of new music performance. “This direct communication,” says artistic director Pamela Madsen “offers a malleable and expanding medium that produces music that is exceedingly new yet, directly communicative.”

Each year the outreach of the listening room widens to include new diverse voices of women throughout the world. It has spread through the International Alliance for Women in Music to American Music Center, Society for Electro-acoustic Music, Electronic Arts and the American Composers Forum. It now reaches to the female d.j. scene, electronica scene and the free-improvisation jazz/electronic music scene. “The festival,” says Madsen, “offers an annual theme each year which focuses on an aspect of “voice,” from hysteria embodied, to transforming voices, to hearing voices: enlistening the future to this year’s theme of merging voices.”

She continues, “this year’s works are elaborate soundscapes, painting surreal pictures of imaginary worlds or depicting layered interior worlds of the mind. Some are fun, experimental, some are serious, political, and some are meditative, some intense and edgy.”

In response to the 2003 Electro-acoustic Listening Room, Jennifer Logan, editor of Spectrum Press and Festival of New Music wrote, in the IAWM (International Alliance for Women Music) Journal:

“These events brought a greater awareness of the magnitude of success women are having with musical professions. To be present and to meet some of these women—who welcomed each other with such a degree of enthusiasm and grace, without pretension or competition—I had the sense that we are all links in an all-important global community of women in the arts.”

“I feel that it’s important to give these amazingly creative women composers and performers from around the world an opportunity to join in a special event such as this. Meanwhile, it provides our students, campus community and all of Orange County a place to speak about women in new music and electro-acoustic music with others.” —Pamela Madsen, festival artistic director

Admission: Free
Websites: http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/pmadsen
Media Contact: Elizabeth Champion, College of the Arts at 657-278-2434


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