- Ruth Anderson
Ruth Anderson (born
March 21 1928 in Montana) is acomposer , orchestrator, and flautist, whose music is influenced by her study ofZen . Retired fromHunter College in 1989, she lives in New York during the winter and in Montana during the summerElizabeth Hinkle-Turner. "Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States", p.29. Published 2006. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 301 pages. ISBN:0754604616.] .She is a, "respected electronic composer," ["America's Women Composers: Up from the Footnotes". Author(s): Jeannie G. Pool. Source: "Music Educators Journal", Vol. 65, No. 5, (Jan., 1979), pp. 28-41. Published by: MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3395571. Accessed: 27/06/2008 16:44.] whose works have been released on the Opus One label and
Charles Amirkhanian 's "pioneering" [Zurbrugg, Nicholas, ed (2004). "Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews". Introduction to "Charles Amirkhanian", p.17. ISBN 0-8166-3832-2.] LP anthology "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media" (1977).Her
sound poem "I Come Out of Your Sleep" (revised and recorded on "Sinopah" 1997 XI) is constructed from speech sounds inLouise Bogan 's poem "Little Lobelia." According to the composer "a very soft dynamic level is an integral component of this piece. It is important to listen to it in the way it was composed, near the threshold of hearing." (liner notes) Her collage piece "SUM (State of the Union Message)" is included on the "Lesbian American Composers" collection (1998 CRI: 780). "SUM" and "DUMP" (1970), also asonic collage , are her best known pieces. She calls her student of Zen, begun in 1990, "a natural extension of of my music," and cites as influential, especially on her interest in music andhealing , composersPauline Oliveros andAnnea Lockwood .Anderson received degrees in flute and composition at the
University of Washington and later studied withDarius Milhaud andNadia Boulanger in the 1950s and withVladimir Ussachevsky andPril Smiley in the 1960s at theColumbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center . She wrote that after her exposure to tape manipulation she became open to the potential of, "all sounds...as material for music". She joined the staff at Hunter College (CUNY ) in 1966 and created the electroacoustic music center there after being fired and rehired at the new Hunter College facilities in 1968.ources
External links
*Andreu, Montse. [http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0038.html "Innovative Women Composers"]
*Tyranny, "Blue Gene". [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=42:405281 "I come out of your sleep"] , "All Music".
*Gann, Kyle. [http://www.kylegann.com/women.html "List of Women Composers"] .
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