Susan Frykberg

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Susan Frykberg (born 10 October 1954) is an electroacoustic composer and a sound artist. She also composes acoustic music in a variety of genres.

Life[]

Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury, Simon Fraser University and the University of Otago. Teachers included John Rimmer, Barry Vercoe, , Iannis Xenakis and Barry Truax.

She moved to Canada in 1979 and worked as a free-lance composer in Toronto until a move to Vancouver in 1986, to complete a master's degree with Barry Truax. She then taught for seven years in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has also served as a guest lecturer at The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and Emily Carr College, Vancouver, Auckland University, RMIT University, Melbourne and Box Hill Institute of TAFE. She has one son.[1][2]

Works[]

Frykberg composes electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include:

  • Mother Too
  • Insect Life
  • Birth/Rebirth Bearing Me
  • Audio Birth Project
  • Margaret
  • Astonishing Sense
  • I Didn’t Think Much About It
  • Sue and Kathy Telecompose across the Country[3]

Her works have been recorded and issued on media including:

  • Astonishing Sense Of Being Taken Over By Something Greater Than Me (CD) Earsay Productions, 1998
  • Transonances (Cass, Ltd) Underwhich Audiographics, 1984
  • harangue I (CD) Earsay, 1998

References[]

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ^ Cummings, David M. (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory.
  3. ^ Rubin, Anna. "Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense of being taken over by something far greater than me" (PDF). Computer Music Journal. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
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