Maggi Payne

Maggi Payne (born in Temple, Texas, 1945) is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals (video, dance, film, slides).

Payne raised in Amarillo, Texas and attended Interlochen Music Camp and Aspen Music School. She received her B. Mus. in applied flute at Northwestern University, studying with Walfrid Kujala, flute, and Alan Stout and M. William Karlins, composers.^[1] She received her M. Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana, studying with composers Gordon Mumma, Ben Johnston, and Salvatore Martirano.^[1] She studied with Robert Ashley at Mills College, where she received her MFA in electronic music and recording media. ^[2]

She has collaborated since the 1980s with video artist Ed Tannenbaum, composing several works for his Technological Feets live dance/video-processing performances and built a flame speaker at the Exploratorium in collaboration with Nick Bertoni (1983-1985). Her video works include Crystal, Io, Circular Motion, Solar Wind, Airwaves (realities), Liquid Metal, Apparent Horizon, and Liquid Amber. Her films include Orion and Allusions. Her works involving dance include System Test (fire and ice) and Allusions. Her works have been choreographed by Molissa Fenley, Wendy Rodgers, Gina Gibney, Gail Chodera, Deoborah Hay, Carla Blank Reed, and Carolyn Brown.

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^[1] and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships Program. She has had three honorary mentions from Bourges, one from Prix Ars Electronica, and placed in the Barlow and "Luigi Russolo" per giovani compositor di Musica Elettroacoustica competitions.

Commissions include National Flute Association High School Soloist Competition 2005, flutist Nina Assimakopoulos,^[3]pianist Sarah Cahill, trombonist Abbie Conant, Starkland, composer Annea Lockwood, composer/pianist David Mahler, and the Hartt School of Music at Hartford.

Maggi Payne has also had works selected and performed on the 60x60 project for the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. ^[4] She is currently Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she teaches recording engineering, composition, and electronic music. ^[5]

Discography

Solos Releases:

• 2003 Ping/Pong: Beyond the Pail CD, And/oar (soundscapes)
• 1991 Crystal re-released on CD, Lovely Music (electroacoustic): includes White Night, Solar Wind, Scirocco, Crystal + additional tracks Ahh-Ahh (ver 2.1), Subterranean Network, Phase Transitions
• 1986 Crystal LP, Lovely Music (electroacoustic): includes White Night, Scirocco, Crystal, Solar Wind

Compilations:

• 2008 60X3, on the "60x60 (2006-2007)" 2-CD set, Vox Novus ^[6]
• 2007 System Test (fire and Ice) on the "Far and Wide" DVD, Computer Music Journal (Winter 2007, Vol. 31/No. 4)
• 2007 :60 Fizz (electroacoustic), on the "60x60 (2004-2005)" 2-CD set, Vox Novus ^[7]
• 2006 ReCycle (electroacoustic), on the "Women Take Back the Noise" CD, Ubuibi
• 2006 Of All for solo flute (Nina Assimakopoulos, flute), on the "Points of Entry: Laurels Project, Volume I" CD, Capstone Records ^[8]
• 2006 it's elemental (soundscape), on the "Overheard and Rendered" CD, And/oar
• 2005 field recordings edited by Chris Cutler on the "Twice Around the Earth" CD, ReR Megacorp
• 2004 60 Spin (electroacoustic), on the "60X60" CD, Capstone Records, CPS-8744
• 2001 Moiré (electroacoustic) on the soundtrack for Jordan Belson: Collected Films: Bardo
• 2000 White Turbulence 2000 (four channel electroacoustic work), on the "Immersion" DVD-V/DVD-A, Starkland
• 2000 breaks/motors (electroacoustic), on the "Oasis: Music from Mills 2001" CD, Mills College
• 1999 HUM, Aeolian Confluence, and Inflections, on "The Extended Flute" CD, CRI
• 1999 Raw Data (electroacoustic), on the "End ID" CD, Digital Narcis Ltd.
• 1998 Chris Mann Piece (electroacoustic), on "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" CD, Frog Peak
• 1998 She Began, with text by writer Melody Sumner Carnahan, on "The Time is Now" CD, Frog Peak
• 1996 Desertscapes, for 2 spatially separated choirs, on the "Desertscapes" CD, MMC
• 1996 Moiré (electroacoustic), on the "Storm of Drones" CD, Asphodel Records
• 1994 Resonant Places (electroacoustic), on the "Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM)—Music from the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College" CD, Centaur
• 1988 Airwaves (realities) (electroacoustic), on the "Another Coast" CD, Music and Arts
• 1986 Subterranean Network, on the "Mills College Centennial" 3-LP album, Mills College
• 1980 Lunar Dusk and Lunar Earthrise (electroacoustic), on the "Lovely Little Records" boxed set of six 7" records, Lovely Music

As Performer:

• 1999 flutist on "The Extended Flute" CD, CRI (performing works by Maggi Payne, David Behrman, William Brooks, Mark Trayle, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati)
• 1996 flutist on "Non Stop Flight" by Pauline Oliveros, CD on Music and Arts
• 1978 flutist and bowed psalter player on "Summer Music" by Jacques Bekaert, LP on Lovely Music
• 1977 flutist on "On the Other Ocean" by David Behrman, LP on Lovely Music (re-released on CD 1996, Lovely Music)
• 1977 flutist on "Star Jaws" by Peter Laurence Gordon, LP on Lovely Music
• 1977 flutist on "Out of the Blue" by Blue Gene Tyranny, LP on Lovely Music (re-released on CD 2007, Unseen Worlds)

Print publications

• 2000 Desertscapes, for two spatially separated choirs (1991), score published on Treble Clef Music
• 2002 Music with Roots in the Aether, Robert Ashley, article on Gordon Mumma, p. 109-124, written about 1976

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Borchert
2. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Maggi_Payne.htm Maggi Payne Biography on Vox Novus
3. ^ http://www.ninaassimakopoulos.com/pages/main/recordings.html Nina Assimakopoulos recordings page
4. ^ http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Composers.htm 60x60 Composer Page
5. ^ http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/mus/maggi/maggi.php Maggi Payne at Mills College
6. ^ http://cdbaby.com/cd/60x60 60x60 CD (2006-2007)
7. ^ http://cdbaby.com/cd/60x60 60x60 CD (2004-2005)
8. ^ http://www.capstonerecords.org/CPS-8759.html Points of Entry Capstone CPS-8759

Bibliography

Gavin Borchert. "Maggi Payne", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed November 27, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).

External links

• Official website
• Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Maggi Payne.” eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: CEC.

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