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__NOTOC__ Brenda Hutchinson is an American
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
and
sound artist Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, ...
who has developed a body of work based on a perspective about interacting with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. Hutchinson encourages her participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She often bases her electroacoustic compositions on recordings of these individual collaborative experiences, creating "sonic portraits" or "aural pictures" of people and situations. In addition to her ethnographic pieces, Hutchinson has composed for film (''
Liquid Sky ''Liquid Sky'' is a 1982 American independent science fiction film directed by Slava Tsukerman and starring Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard. It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film fes ...
'', 1982, co-composed with Clive Smith), invented instruments (Giant Music Box, Long Tube, and gestural interface for the Long Tube), and is active as a performer/improviser. Hutchinson earned her M.A. in Music Composition from the
University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
, where she studied with
Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
,
Roger Reynolds Roger Lee Reynolds (born July 18, 1934) is an American composer. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds with those newly enabled by technology. Beyond com ...
,
Bernard Rands Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934 in Sheffield, England) is a British and American contemporary classical composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna ...
, and
Robert Erickson Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 – April 24, 1997) was an American modernist composer and influential music teacher. He was one of the first American composers to explore the twelve tone technique and to compose tape music. Education Erickson ...
. Performances of her work have been presented in
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at
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,
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, and
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, as well as in
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at New Langton Arts, The Lab, and the
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.Several of her pieces have been reviewed by Kyle Gann in ''The Village Voice''. See Gann,''Music Downtown: Writings From The Village Voice'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).


Discography

*''
Liquid Sky ''Liquid Sky'' is a 1982 American independent science fiction film directed by Slava Tsukerman and starring Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard. It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film fes ...
'' (with Clive Smith), Varese Sarabande LP STV 81181, VCD47181, 1982. *''Interlude from Voices of Reason'' on ''TELLUS'', ''The Audio Cassette Magazine'', TELLUS #9, 1985. *''Slow Death on a Thorny Rose'' (with Gerald Lindahl) on ''TELLUS, The Audio Cassette Magazine'', TELLUS #16 "Tango", 1987. *''EEEYAH!'' on ''The Aerial: A Journal in Sound'', Aerial #4, 1989. *''Seldom Still'', cassette, Pauline Oliveros Foundation, BH-C-1, 1989. *''Vanishing Act'' (with Constance DeJong) on ''Siteless Sounds'', TELLUS #25, 1991. *''Long Tube Trio'' on ''Minimall'', TELLUS #27, 1993. *''Family Album'', ''VOYS'', Pauline Oliveros Foundation, HB-CD-2, 1999. *''How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?'', ''soundprint.org and Third Coast Audio International Festival'', https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/explore/feature/how-do-you-get-to-carnegie-hall, 2001. *''Turaluralura Lament'', ''Homo Sonorus: An International Anthology of Sound Poetry'', Edited / Curated by Dmitry Bulatov, The National Center for Contemporary Art. Kaliningrad Branch, 2001. *''(New) Violet Flame'', ''soundprint.org'', http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/89/name/Violet+Flame, 2001. *''Long Tube-Solos and Duets'', Pauline Oliveros Foundation, HB-CD-3, 2002.


Bibliography

*Sabrina Peña Young. (2009). ''The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today''. *Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth (2006). ''Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology''. Burlington, VT. Ashgate. *Croydon, Philip ed. (2001). "New Grove Dictionary". Brenda Hutchinson. Macmillan Publishers Limited. *Roberts, Mary Lee ''Being Around Brenda Hutchinson''. Open Space Magazine
Spring 2001, issue 3


Books and articles

*Hutchinson, Brenda. “Was hat das mit Musikzu tun?” Remembering Pauline Oliveros (translated from English into German for this publication), Musik Texte: Zeitschrift Für Neue Musik. Heft 152. February. (2017) Verlag Musik Text. Köln. *Hutchinson, Brenda. “Sound, Listening, and Public Engagement”. Ear/Wave/Event. Issue Two: Listening
Online publication by Bill Dietz and Woody Sullender
(2015). *Hutchinson, Brenda. What Can You Do? reclaiming public space through direct engagement with strangers. (2012) *Hutchinson, Brenda. “Tiny Offerings”. Deep Listening Anthology II: Scores from the Deep Listening Community. Edited by Marc Jensen. Deep Listening Publications (2010), p. 54 *Hutchinson, Brenda. "Sound Initiated Drawing and Memory Impairment". Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work. Canadian Electroacoustic Communit

(2010). *Hutchinson, Brenda. "Don't Stop the Music". Exploratorium Quarterly, volume 10, issue 4, Winter (1986).


References


External links


Composer's website
* ttp://soundprint.org/radio/display_producer/ID/160/name/Brenda+Hutchinson Two works by Hutchinson available at Soundprint broadcast archivebr>Archival Blog for ''The Bell Project''Archival Blog for ''dailybell2008''International Alliance for Women in Music
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