Maggi Payne
Electroacoustic Composer

Maggi Payne is currently Co-Director of the Center For Contemporary Music at Mills College, Oakland, CA, where she teaches recording engineering, composition and electronic music. She also freelances as a recording engineer and editor.

She has had performances of her works throughout the United States and Europe, including the 2nd Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, Pacific Marathon III (West-Coast) at Cultuurcentrum de Oosterpoort in the Netherlands, Women of Vision series on PBS KCSM-TV, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Northwestern University, CalArts, Sonic Circuits IV Festival of Electronic Music, the Next Wave Festival eXstatic Project in Australia, OPUS415 No.3 in San Francisco, Not Still Art Festival, EnCue Series XVI at Concordia University in Montreal, SoundCulture '96, New Music Across America Festival '92, New Music America '90, '87 and '81 Festivals, Composers' Forum in NYC, Experimental Intermedia Foundation in NYC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, SEAMUS, Western Front, Siggraph, CADRE, University of California at Santa Cruz, Cal State Northridge, Texas Tech University, University of Hartford, College of Santa Fe, Media Study/Buffalo, New Langton Arts in SF, New York Museum of Modern Art, Paris Autumn Festival, Bourges Festival in France, and the Autunno Musical at Como, Italy.

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.

Her solo CD, Crystal, is available on the Lovely Music label, as are her compositions Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise. HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Inflections are on The Extended Flute CD on CRI, Raw Data is on the END ID CD from Digital Narcis,Airwaves is on the Another Coast CD from Music and Arts, Resonant Places is on the CDCM series CD (volume 17) from Centaur, Desertscapes is on the MMC CD titled Desertscapes, Moire' is on the Asphodel CD titled Storm of Drones, She Began and Chris Mann are on Frogpeak CDs, and Subterranean Network is available on the Mills College Anthology.

Affiliations include BMI, Audio Engineering Society, NARAS, New Langton Arts, The American Music Center, American Composers Forum, SEAMUS and Electonic Music Foundation

References include The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Who's Who in American Music, International Who's Who in Music, the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, The Musical Woman: An International Perspective by Judith Lang Zaimont and Electric Sound by Joel Chadabe.

 

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