Susan Frykberg
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[]
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ Cummings, David M. (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory.
- ^ Rubin, Anna. "Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense of being taken over by something far greater than me" (PDF). Computer Music Journal. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- 1954 births
- Living people
- 20th-century classical composers
- New Zealand music teachers
- Women classical composers
- New Zealand classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- Women music educators
- 20th-century women composers
- 21st-century women composers