WSH2007 ARTISTS

Woodstockhausen 2007 Artist/Program Notes

This page contains biographies, program notes, and MP3 files for artists selected to participate in Woodstockhausen. Happy listening!

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ARTIST/TITLE

BIO

PROGRAM NOTES

MEDIA LINK

Rick Walker
The Rick Walker Drum and Bugle Choir

Rick Walker will play a piece for drumset (which he has played for 40 years) and trumpet (which he has played without instruction for 6 months), treating both instruments as 'Found Sound Objects, exploring the intersection between mastery and complete naivete.
He will also be projecting lo fi toy video camera 'animations' for his piece that he has begun creating in the last year of his life.
Rick Walker has been on the cutting edge of several musical movements in his life. As a professional drummer percussionist, he also is an eclectic multi-instrumentalist and specializes in digital live looping and found sound. He produces the world's largest Live Looping festival every year in October in Santa Cruz where he lives with his wife, the talented singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Christine Wedertz. N/A

Tim Thompson
Finger Fresco 2.0
Fingers on multitouch pads generate visuals and music simultaneously using custom software. Tim Thompson is a software engineer who enjoys the creative process of developing artistic software for both music and visuals, often involving the use of unusual controllers. Most widely known as the developer of the KeyKit programming environment for algorithmic and realtime MIDI experimentation, he has more recently been inspired by events such as Burning Man and Woodstockhausen, where his interactive creations include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio. He lives in San Jose and collaborates with Bay Area ensembles dud and DOUBLE VISION. Tim's home page - http://nosuch.com/tjt - documents the variety of his activities and allows people to play with some web-based algorithmic music toys. MP3

Luke Dahl
the name of the thing that sits in the land of the whatever place

The WaveSaw i an instrument that I developed in conjunction with Nate Whetsell and John Stoecker for a class at CCRMA on Physical Interaction Design for Music. The germinal idea of this instrument was to map the shape of an object into the "shape" of a sound. Hence, the bends and curves of the WaveSaw blade become the shape of one period of a waveform (scanned synthesis), or the shape of a filter response (subtractive synthesis.)
This piece is a solo performance for WaveSaw, looper, and drum machine, and relies on the WaveSaw's proclivity for "timbral gestures." The title comes from the name of my favorite book as misremembered by my girlfriend.
As a musician I make mostly dance-derived forms of electronic music, and occasionally venture into more experimental or formal realms. As an engineer I've worked on audio technologies for both Apple and Creative Labs. I'm currently pursuing a PhD at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA.) Some of my music can be heard online at www.myspace.com/lukedahl. MP3

Phillip Greenleaf
Fourth World
Phillip Greenlief will perform The Fourth World, based on Hopi mythology. The Fourth World is our current epoch, and the Hopis believe that this epoch is our last chance to prove to the creators that we can live in harmony with the earth and not put personal desires before the benefit of the greater good of humanity and the planet where we live.
phillip greenlief - b. 1959; Los Angeles, CA
Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970’s, Evander Music founder Phillip Greenlief has achieved international critical acclaim for his work with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. His ever-evolving relationship with the saxophone unfolds with an expansive sound vocabulary, extreme dynamic range, a deep regard for melody and form, and a humor and wit that is not dissimilar to the Native American Coyote tales. Greenlief received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Music in 2000.
"Phillip Greenlief is a reedman versatile enough to achieve anything except peace in Palestine" - Greg Burk, LA WEEKLY
MP3

Later Days
Tangle
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. -Charles Darwin Later Days is the performance artwork of Wayne Jackson and guests. Since founding Woodstockhausen in 1998 with the help of many friends, Wayne has continued to perform sporadically in and around Santa Cruz and the greater Bay Area. Now recovering from a creative hiatus of several years\' duration, he is once again staying up late nights to write the custom software he uses on stage. MP3

[NameLess Kala] (DJ saKAna and Djynnx Ogo)
sublingual...subsonics
12 minute electronic music improvisation that fuses elements of noise, dub, javanese and balinese gamelan, and ambient musical influences. [NameLess Kala] is an improvisation-based electronics-in- musick duo, comprised of DJ saKAna and Djynnx Ogo. Sonically, they create subtle and altering shifts in mood and structure informed by a wide range of musical experience. Ambient, Psychedelic and Dub influences give way to unnameable forms which throb and mutate. [insert name here] have been collaborating musically for two years, while completing their degrees in digital arts and new media. saKAna at UCSC in the DANM MFA program, and Djynnx at SF State University in the Conceptual/Information Arts program. They also have involvement in the S.P.A.Z. and Katabatik soundsystems, as well as with the groups Actsyllabod, Bass Travelers, Gamelan Anak Saraswanti, and Nommo Ogo. MP3

Keith Garrett
Transcommunality
I met john serving him coffee. He agreed to come onto my radio show and do a sound scrape. John read from his book "Transcommunality" a term/model which he has developed and researched through out the years. After the sound scrape was done I realized that this piece would fit very well on an ambient/album as a balancing piece to the harsh nature of \"Baptism\", a noise piece based of the sermons of Baptist Preacher Fred Phelps. This album is out for free download at www.liquid-valley.com
We have been collaborating on other projects as well such as a website on transcommunality and a possible speach at a soon to be upcomming Free Radio Santa Cruz benefit.

I am an eclectic taoist that lives in Santa Cruz CA. I am a graduated music major from the Cabrillo Choral Program. I have studied and been making music since I was 15. I became interested in SoundScraping a few years ago as a result of my meeting Matthew Embry and doing sound scrapes on his radio show. I have become increasingly interested in abstract forms of music and expression in general. I am a composer of Choral, Hip Hop, Downtempo and abstract music. I am a dj of drum and bass, trance and abstract/sound collage. You can listen to more of my music at www.myspace.com/keithgarrett or check out my radio show on FRSC (101.1 FM) Friday from 2-5pm.
I am also a graduated Graphic Design student from Cabrillo as well.. I make art sites, band sites, artist portfolios. You can view my portfolio at: www.liquid-valley.com
Peace, Keith
MP3

The Posthumous Release (Barry Threw and Nathan Blaz)
Improvised electronic duo
The Posthumous Release will play an improvised set of textural washes of noise, processed string melodies, and organic electronic sound. Ranging between ragingly aggressive and tranquilly subtle, an immersive soundscape is created from the interleaving sonic streams. The Posthumous Release is an improvised electronic musical duo, from San Francisco, CA, comprised of Barry Threw (laptop) and Nathan Blaz (laptop and electric cello). In performance they create enveloping sonic environments. MP3

Steve McDonald
dj Dolphin: Tuna Net Freak-Out
dj Dolphin: Tuna Net Freak-out is a work consisting of undersea recordings mixed with a processed electric guitar track. The guitar treatments were performed "live" along with the "playing" of the instrument. Steve McDonald holds a B.A. in music from UC Santa Cruz. He Currently performs with the rock/lounge act Vermouth, Gamelan Burat Wangi and records strange sounds in his home in Los Angeles. MP3

Sidecar (Anne Hege and Heather Heise)
The Children’s Hour
"The Children's Hour" is a musical-theatrical rendering of the dreams, nightmares and whimsies that lie between childhood and maturity. Traditional piano/vocal repertoire is interwoven-- sometimes a game, sometimes a story--with contemporary works for electronics and video. Inspired by the eponymous song by Charles Ives, as well as by William Walton's Facade and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, the through-composed program (fully produced by Sidecar) also includes original electronic compositions. Singer and composer Anne Hege began her musical studies with the Piedmont Children’s Choir and is now a PhD candidate at Princeton University. Inspired by various composer/performers within the folk and world music traditions, Hege\'s compositions integrate the traditional and experimental in a very personal way. Hege has composed for the Albany Community Chorus, Piedmont Children\'s Choir, Voce e Tempore, Niños y Jovenes Cantores de la Escuela Nacional de Música de la UNAM, and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and the Flux Quartet. She performs original works and art songs in her performance duo “Sidecar” and works with music and video in her band the "New Prosthetics." Heather Heise first learned to play piano from a Methodist minister. Her piano playing acknowledges the balletic. Simple graceful gestures veil an interior precision that, sure-footed as a monkey, can scamper across the most varied musical terrain. Heise performs with myriad bay area choirs, composes music for dance, and recently began incorporating video into her musical projects. She is one half of the avant-cabaret duo Sidecar. MP3

Margot and Beau Casey
The Lunar Preludes
The lunar Prelude is a peice composed for voice and electronics. A narritive describing the antissipation of space flight is paired with melodic synthesizer and drum machine sequences. Original video compositions narrating the journey will accompany the musical performance.
Margot Bevington Casey is a perfromer, composer and educator. She excellently combines an original voice with a knack for narrative and melody.
Beau Casey is an electronic music composer and video performance artist. He has a stylistic vision of rhythmic motion and melodic harmony. HIs video performance interacts with 3D motion graphics.
photo
MP3

Clatterbox
Live at Night (kusp parts)
This is an electronic piece made from sounds created mixed live on KUSP in Santa Cruz by four people then edited/treated in my home lab...Clatterbox started as a group on Free Radio Santa Cruz in 1996...this piece represents the second line-up of the group in 1999: Jason Arredondo, Paul Couture, Matter Embryo, Sgt. Scrapes...these sounds are culled from performances soon to be released in full-length album form as 'Clatterbox- Live on KUSP '...sessions which include Erich J. Holden...but for tonight we offer this humbly for you to please enjoy! Clatterbox is a radio sound group incorporating noise, music, electronic mixing, radio theatre into a sonic live explosion! We have numerous secretive releases known only to the initiated......Jason Arredondo: radio DJ, adventurer...Paul Couture: radio DJ, sound archivist...Matter Embryo: radio DJ, present-day composer...Sgt. Scrapes: impossible to define......much is afoot including a website soon; please get in touch!...mattkembry@yahoo.com...cheers! MP3

Bruce Bennett
schema
Schema, a piece for soprano saxophone and electronics, was composed for my friend and colleague, Michael F. Zbyszynski during the fall of 2006.
The idea for the piece began back in 2001 when I heard of Xenakis’ passing. I quickly wrote down a simple tetrachord of interlocking tritones thinking it representative of “X.” Most of the material for Schema is derived from this tetrachord, either by ring modulation, frequency modulation, or the construction of artificial modes. This simple harmonic germ slowly expands over the first several minutes of the piece and also brings the work to a close.
Bruce Christian Bennett (b. 1968) is a native of Seattle and currently residing in San Francisco, California. He teaches orchestration, counterpoint, and 20th-Century Music at San Francisco State University and is a technical writer for Digidesign. He was a visiting artist at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2005–2006 and visiting assistant professor of music at Tulane University from 2003– 2005. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 where he studied composition with Richard Felciano and computer music with David Wessel. He received his M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1993, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, David Conte, and Elinor Armer; he received his B.A. in music from Reed College in 1990 where he was a student of David Schiff. He has received several honors, including a 2003 commission from the Fromm Foundation and the 1993 Prix Maurice Ravel at Fontainbleau. He is a founding member of both the Berkeley New Music Project and the CNMAT Users Group (a coalition of composers and engineers whose interests are in the interaction of music and technology), and was on the board of directors for Earplay (a San Francisco–based new music ensemble) from 2000 to 2003, and was president of the board from 2001–2002. His works have been played throughout the United States and abroad by such groups as the Arditti String Quartet, Earplay, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco
Contemporary Music Players; his electroacoustic music has been presented at events such as ICMC, the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth, the Pulse Field exhibition in Atlanta, Sonic Circuits II, Cultural Labyrinth in San Francisco, EX-STATIC and Sonic Residues in Melbourne, Australia, and at SEAMUS and SCI conferences. He also performs regularly as an improviser, playing piano, synthesizers, and computer.
Michael Ferriell Zbyszynski is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. Currently, he is the Assistant Director of Music Composition and Pedagogy at UC Berkeley\'s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, and works with Respectable Citizen, HPX Multimedia, and the Capacitor Performance Group.
Dr. Zbyszynski plays flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-7 (MIDI wind controller), and things made from coffee cans and PVC. His 2006 piece News Cycle #2, created in collaboration with video artist Anthony Discenza, was jointly comissioned by the Getty Center and the Montalvo Arts Center, where they have been invited for a residency in 2008. In 2004, Zbyszynski finished a permanent sound installation at Edgemar in Santa Monica, CA, in collaboration with Hugh Livingston. He has appeared, collaborated, or worked with Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (the American premier of John Cage´s Ocean 1-95), Frances Marie Uitti, and David Wessel, as a soloist with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Composers Inc., UC Berkeley Symphony, Cultural Labyrinth, Berkeley New Music Project, and Common Sense Composer´s Collective, and at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Montréal Jazz Festival, the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, University of Washington, Reed College, and Portland State University, and The Western Front Lodge (Vancouver). He has recorded and mixed sound for diverse artists, including Debashish Bhattachaya, Amelia Cuni, Fred Frith, Frank Gratkowski, DJ Spooky, and Bertram Turetzky. He can be heard on the ARTSHIP Record Label.
MP3

ARTIST/TITLE	BIO	PROGRAM NOTES	MEDIA LINK
Rick Walker The Rick Walker Drum and Bugle Choir	Rick Walker will play a piece for drumset (which he has played for 40 years) and trumpet (which he has played without instruction for 6 months), treating both instruments as 'Found Sound Objects, exploring the intersection between mastery and complete naivete. He will also be projecting lo fi toy video camera 'animations' for his piece that he has begun creating in the last year of his life.	Rick Walker has been on the cutting edge of several musical movements in his life. As a professional drummer percussionist, he also is an eclectic multi-instrumentalist and specializes in digital live looping and found sound. He produces the world's largest Live Looping festival every year in October in Santa Cruz where he lives with his wife, the talented singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Christine Wedertz.	N/A
Tim Thompson Finger Fresco 2.0	Fingers on multitouch pads generate visuals and music simultaneously using custom software.	Tim Thompson is a software engineer who enjoys the creative process of developing artistic software for both music and visuals, often involving the use of unusual controllers. Most widely known as the developer of the KeyKit programming environment for algorithmic and realtime MIDI experimentation, he has more recently been inspired by events such as Burning Man and Woodstockhausen, where his interactive creations include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio. He lives in San Jose and collaborates with Bay Area ensembles dud and DOUBLE VISION. Tim's home page - http://nosuch.com/tjt - documents the variety of his activities and allows people to play with some web-based algorithmic music toys.	MP3
Luke Dahl the name of the thing that sits in the land of the whatever place	The WaveSaw i an instrument that I developed in conjunction with Nate Whetsell and John Stoecker for a class at CCRMA on Physical Interaction Design for Music. The germinal idea of this instrument was to map the shape of an object into the "shape" of a sound. Hence, the bends and curves of the WaveSaw blade become the shape of one period of a waveform (scanned synthesis), or the shape of a filter response (subtractive synthesis.) This piece is a solo performance for WaveSaw, looper, and drum machine, and relies on the WaveSaw's proclivity for "timbral gestures." The title comes from the name of my favorite book as misremembered by my girlfriend.	As a musician I make mostly dance-derived forms of electronic music, and occasionally venture into more experimental or formal realms. As an engineer I've worked on audio technologies for both Apple and Creative Labs. I'm currently pursuing a PhD at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA.) Some of my music can be heard online at www.myspace.com/lukedahl.	MP3
Phillip Greenleaf Fourth World	Phillip Greenlief will perform The Fourth World, based on Hopi mythology. The Fourth World is our current epoch, and the Hopis believe that this epoch is our last chance to prove to the creators that we can live in harmony with the earth and not put personal desires before the benefit of the greater good of humanity and the planet where we live.	phillip greenlief - b. 1959; Los Angeles, CA Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970’s, Evander Music founder Phillip Greenlief has achieved international critical acclaim for his work with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. His ever-evolving relationship with the saxophone unfolds with an expansive sound vocabulary, extreme dynamic range, a deep regard for melody and form, and a humor and wit that is not dissimilar to the Native American Coyote tales. Greenlief received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Music in 2000. "Phillip Greenlief is a reedman versatile enough to achieve anything except peace in Palestine" - Greg Burk, LA WEEKLY	MP3
Later Days Tangle	It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. -Charles Darwin	Later Days is the performance artwork of Wayne Jackson and guests. Since founding Woodstockhausen in 1998 with the help of many friends, Wayne has continued to perform sporadically in and around Santa Cruz and the greater Bay Area. Now recovering from a creative hiatus of several years\' duration, he is once again staying up late nights to write the custom software he uses on stage.	MP3
[NameLess Kala] (DJ saKAna and Djynnx Ogo) sublingual...subsonics	12 minute electronic music improvisation that fuses elements of noise, dub, javanese and balinese gamelan, and ambient musical influences.	[NameLess Kala] is an improvisation-based electronics-in- musick duo, comprised of DJ saKAna and Djynnx Ogo. Sonically, they create subtle and altering shifts in mood and structure informed by a wide range of musical experience. Ambient, Psychedelic and Dub influences give way to unnameable forms which throb and mutate. [insert name here] have been collaborating musically for two years, while completing their degrees in digital arts and new media. saKAna at UCSC in the DANM MFA program, and Djynnx at SF State University in the Conceptual/Information Arts program. They also have involvement in the S.P.A.Z. and Katabatik soundsystems, as well as with the groups Actsyllabod, Bass Travelers, Gamelan Anak Saraswanti, and Nommo Ogo.	MP3
Keith Garrett Transcommunality	I met john serving him coffee. He agreed to come onto my radio show and do a sound scrape. John read from his book "Transcommunality" a term/model which he has developed and researched through out the years. After the sound scrape was done I realized that this piece would fit very well on an ambient/album as a balancing piece to the harsh nature of \"Baptism\", a noise piece based of the sermons of Baptist Preacher Fred Phelps. This album is out for free download at www.liquid-valley.com We have been collaborating on other projects as well such as a website on transcommunality and a possible speach at a soon to be upcomming Free Radio Santa Cruz benefit.	I am an eclectic taoist that lives in Santa Cruz CA. I am a graduated music major from the Cabrillo Choral Program. I have studied and been making music since I was 15. I became interested in SoundScraping a few years ago as a result of my meeting Matthew Embry and doing sound scrapes on his radio show. I have become increasingly interested in abstract forms of music and expression in general. I am a composer of Choral, Hip Hop, Downtempo and abstract music. I am a dj of drum and bass, trance and abstract/sound collage. You can listen to more of my music at www.myspace.com/keithgarrett or check out my radio show on FRSC (101.1 FM) Friday from 2-5pm. I am also a graduated Graphic Design student from Cabrillo as well.. I make art sites, band sites, artist portfolios. You can view my portfolio at: www.liquid-valley.com Peace, Keith	MP3
The Posthumous Release (Barry Threw and Nathan Blaz) Improvised electronic duo	The Posthumous Release will play an improvised set of textural washes of noise, processed string melodies, and organic electronic sound. Ranging between ragingly aggressive and tranquilly subtle, an immersive soundscape is created from the interleaving sonic streams.	The Posthumous Release is an improvised electronic musical duo, from San Francisco, CA, comprised of Barry Threw (laptop) and Nathan Blaz (laptop and electric cello). In performance they create enveloping sonic environments.	MP3
Steve McDonald dj Dolphin: Tuna Net Freak-Out	dj Dolphin: Tuna Net Freak-out is a work consisting of undersea recordings mixed with a processed electric guitar track. The guitar treatments were performed "live" along with the "playing" of the instrument.	Steve McDonald holds a B.A. in music from UC Santa Cruz. He Currently performs with the rock/lounge act Vermouth, Gamelan Burat Wangi and records strange sounds in his home in Los Angeles.	MP3
Sidecar (Anne Hege and Heather Heise) The Children’s Hour	"The Children's Hour" is a musical-theatrical rendering of the dreams, nightmares and whimsies that lie between childhood and maturity. Traditional piano/vocal repertoire is interwoven-- sometimes a game, sometimes a story--with contemporary works for electronics and video. Inspired by the eponymous song by Charles Ives, as well as by William Walton's Facade and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, the through-composed program (fully produced by Sidecar) also includes original electronic compositions.	Singer and composer Anne Hege began her musical studies with the Piedmont Children’s Choir and is now a PhD candidate at Princeton University. Inspired by various composer/performers within the folk and world music traditions, Hege\'s compositions integrate the traditional and experimental in a very personal way. Hege has composed for the Albany Community Chorus, Piedmont Children\'s Choir, Voce e Tempore, Niños y Jovenes Cantores de la Escuela Nacional de Música de la UNAM, and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and the Flux Quartet. She performs original works and art songs in her performance duo “Sidecar” and works with music and video in her band the "New Prosthetics." Heather Heise first learned to play piano from a Methodist minister. Her piano playing acknowledges the balletic. Simple graceful gestures veil an interior precision that, sure-footed as a monkey, can scamper across the most varied musical terrain. Heise performs with myriad bay area choirs, composes music for dance, and recently began incorporating video into her musical projects. She is one half of the avant-cabaret duo Sidecar.	MP3
Margot and Beau Casey The Lunar Preludes	The lunar Prelude is a peice composed for voice and electronics. A narritive describing the antissipation of space flight is paired with melodic synthesizer and drum machine sequences. Original video compositions narrating the journey will accompany the musical performance.	Margot Bevington Casey is a perfromer, composer and educator. She excellently combines an original voice with a knack for narrative and melody. Beau Casey is an electronic music composer and video performance artist. He has a stylistic vision of rhythmic motion and melodic harmony. HIs video performance interacts with 3D motion graphics. photo	MP3
Clatterbox Live at Night (kusp parts)	This is an electronic piece made from sounds created mixed live on KUSP in Santa Cruz by four people then edited/treated in my home lab...Clatterbox started as a group on Free Radio Santa Cruz in 1996...this piece represents the second line-up of the group in 1999: Jason Arredondo, Paul Couture, Matter Embryo, Sgt. Scrapes...these sounds are culled from performances soon to be released in full-length album form as 'Clatterbox- Live on KUSP '...sessions which include Erich J. Holden...but for tonight we offer this humbly for you to please enjoy!	Clatterbox is a radio sound group incorporating noise, music, electronic mixing, radio theatre into a sonic live explosion! We have numerous secretive releases known only to the initiated......Jason Arredondo: radio DJ, adventurer...Paul Couture: radio DJ, sound archivist...Matter Embryo: radio DJ, present-day composer...Sgt. Scrapes: impossible to define......much is afoot including a website soon; please get in touch!...mattkembry@yahoo.com...cheers!	MP3
Bruce Bennett schema	Schema, a piece for soprano saxophone and electronics, was composed for my friend and colleague, Michael F. Zbyszynski during the fall of 2006. The idea for the piece began back in 2001 when I heard of Xenakis’ passing. I quickly wrote down a simple tetrachord of interlocking tritones thinking it representative of “X.” Most of the material for Schema is derived from this tetrachord, either by ring modulation, frequency modulation, or the construction of artificial modes. This simple harmonic germ slowly expands over the first several minutes of the piece and also brings the work to a close.	Bruce Christian Bennett (b. 1968) is a native of Seattle and currently residing in San Francisco, California. He teaches orchestration, counterpoint, and 20th-Century Music at San Francisco State University and is a technical writer for Digidesign. He was a visiting artist at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2005–2006 and visiting assistant professor of music at Tulane University from 2003– 2005. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 where he studied composition with Richard Felciano and computer music with David Wessel. He received his M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1993, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, David Conte, and Elinor Armer; he received his B.A. in music from Reed College in 1990 where he was a student of David Schiff. He has received several honors, including a 2003 commission from the Fromm Foundation and the 1993 Prix Maurice Ravel at Fontainbleau. He is a founding member of both the Berkeley New Music Project and the CNMAT Users Group (a coalition of composers and engineers whose interests are in the interaction of music and technology), and was on the board of directors for Earplay (a San Francisco–based new music ensemble) from 2000 to 2003, and was president of the board from 2001–2002. His works have been played throughout the United States and abroad by such groups as the Arditti String Quartet, Earplay, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; his electroacoustic music has been presented at events such as ICMC, the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth, the Pulse Field exhibition in Atlanta, Sonic Circuits II, Cultural Labyrinth in San Francisco, EX-STATIC and Sonic Residues in Melbourne, Australia, and at SEAMUS and SCI conferences. He also performs regularly as an improviser, playing piano, synthesizers, and computer. Michael Ferriell Zbyszynski is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. Currently, he is the Assistant Director of Music Composition and Pedagogy at UC Berkeley\'s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, and works with Respectable Citizen, HPX Multimedia, and the Capacitor Performance Group. Dr. Zbyszynski plays flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-7 (MIDI wind controller), and things made from coffee cans and PVC. His 2006 piece News Cycle #2, created in collaboration with video artist Anthony Discenza, was jointly comissioned by the Getty Center and the Montalvo Arts Center, where they have been invited for a residency in 2008. In 2004, Zbyszynski finished a permanent sound installation at Edgemar in Santa Monica, CA, in collaboration with Hugh Livingston. He has appeared, collaborated, or worked with Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (the American premier of John Cage´s Ocean 1-95), Frances Marie Uitti, and David Wessel, as a soloist with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Composers Inc., UC Berkeley Symphony, Cultural Labyrinth, Berkeley New Music Project, and Common Sense Composer´s Collective, and at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Montréal Jazz Festival, the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, University of Washington, Reed College, and Portland State University, and The Western Front Lodge (Vancouver). He has recorded and mixed sound for diverse artists, including Debashish Bhattachaya, Amelia Cuni, Fred Frith, Frank Gratkowski, DJ Spooky, and Bertram Turetzky. He can be heard on the ARTSHIP Record Label.	MP3